If Republicans Win in Cali, We Know Why

[Tony]

http://www.candorville.com/

The Brad Blog reports that California's new Republican-appointed Secretary of State has reversed the previous SoS's decision to decertify Diebold's electronic vote-stealing machines. And like any criminal, he did it when nobody was looking -- late Friday right before a 3-day holiday weekend.

Coincidentally, this appointed Secretary of State is up for election this November, along with Schwarzenneger and CA's entire Congressional delegation.


Relevant links:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/13410061.htm

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002439.htm

It's interesting that the Secretary of State felt he needed to issue this decree when the least amount of people would be expected to notice. It's almost as if he is trying to hide something, nah, he couldn't do that. He is a Republican, and thus, an honest man of God (like Osama bin Laden).

[corplinx]

News flash: Politician puts off controversial political decision til Friday late so he wont have to hear about it til Monday.

BBV has a whole kook grassroots movement bombarding press offices and phone lines with this sort of thing. Its no wonder he he did it to coincide with weekend.

[gtc]

Wasn't the Blair government caught out on 9/11? Wasn't there a memo saying today would be a good day to release anything you wanted ignored?

Its a tactic which can backfire, because if its a slow news weekend, journalists might actually try to hunt out anything the government tried to bury.

[brodski]

Wasn't the Blair government caught out on 9/11? Wasn't there a memo saying today would be a good day to release anything you wanted ignored?

Its a tactic which can backfire, because if its a slow news weekend, journalists might actually try to hunt out anything the government tried to bury. The real story behind that memo is very different to the media spin on it. It was all about an internal conflict between two factions of the department for transport, local government and the regions communications directorate. An (admittedly insensitive) internal memo, giving advice that many PR people would give, was leaked by a civil servant in a concerted (and successful) attempt to destroy the career of a Sectary of State.

The media didn't go looking for that story, it was handed to them on a platter.

[gtc]

An (admittedly insensitive) internal memo, giving advice that many PR people would give, was leaked by a civil servant in a concerted (and successful) attempt to destroy the career of a Sectary of State.

OK, thanks for the info. I think PR people would also say, never put anything in writing that you don't want to read in Private Eye.

The media didn't go looking for that story, it was handed to them on a platter.

I had wondered how it got leaked, its not the sort of thing that politicians would issue in a press release for instance.

[brodski]

OK, thanks for the info. I think PR people would also say, never put anything in writing that you don't want to read in Private Eye.
Except that Jo More was a PR professional. What she did not count on was a Civil Servant deliberately leaking this memo for political gain.
The UK has a politically neutral Civil Service, a functioning British Democracy rests on the principle that Civil Servants do not engage in political actions. A civil servant using privileged information to try and remove a Minister of the Crown was almost unthinkable before 2001, which is why Moore felt able to be as blunt as she was.