War Stories ...

A few days ago, I asked you for your campaign "war stories" regarding unethical behavior in political campaigns. I received this email from a reader, and thought I would share it with you.

Note: I have removed the name of the alleged campaign, but the story still illustrated an example of what may have been "unethical" campaigning. Additionally, it should serve as a warning to young conservatives of the hardball nature of politics. Yes, there are people out there who will seek to take advantage of you ...

While I was campaigning for XXXX in the last four days of the election, I got a phone call from a New York reporter saying that she would love to get footage of a young, passionate collegiate engaged in political action.

She said she was a producer from HBO, and completely non-partisan. Naively, I admit, I permitted her and her husband to shoot footage of me walking door-to-door and interview me for over four hours.

At one point, I got into my car and checked my messages, and had several panicky messages from the hierarchy of the XXX camp telling me to stop wherever I am, and to quit giving information to the enemy. Apparently this "non-partisan" interview was being executed by Alexandra Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's daughter.

Yeah, she wasn't a XXX campaign staffer, but it seemed too coincidental to be above board,

...How advantageous it would've been for them to have gotten something potentially very bad for the XXX campaign.


Note: It is hard to tell whether this was an example of a legitimate interview or if it was, in fact, a "set-up."

Either way, it is important for conservatives to be "wise as serpants and gentle as doves."