Pro-Whitman Bloggers Attack Poizner Campaign
FACT: Team Poizner has provided access to Red County
MYTH #1: *Access: put simply, we couldn’t get any. We’ve begged Poizner’s staff for months now to communicate with us.(Chip Hanlon, “Poizner’s Sleazy Tactics (And Why ‘York’ No Longer Writes For Red County),” Red County Blog, 12/9/09)
FACT: Steve Poizner was interviewed by Red County Blogger Matt Cunningham on August 25, 2009. After the interview was conducted, Matt Cunningham and Red County never posted it on their website.
FACT: Matt Cunningham interviewed gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman in October. After the interview was conducted, Cunningham posted the interview in three parts on Red County’s website. You can read them here, here, and here.
FACT: Poizner’s communications staff communicated with Red County on multiple occasions. You can view e-mail correspondence showing the campaign reaching out to Chip Hanlon below:
MYTH #2: While other elected officials in offices big and small across the country routinely take us up on this offer by bombarding us with information and story ideas, we literally could not even get the Poizner campaign’s communications staff to add us to its email distribution list!(Chip Hanlon, “Poizner’s Sleazy Tactics (And Why ‘York’ No Longer Writes For Red County),” Red County Blog, 12/9/09)
FACT: Screen shots taken by the Poizner Campaign show that Red County’s Chip Hanlon and Matt Cunningham have been on the Poizner campaign’s distribution list for months. As the screen shots show, Chip and Matt never opened the emails from the campaign.
View e-mails sent to Matt Cunningham.
