Thompson Campaign Sets Up Negative Campaign Hotline
Fred Thompson’s SC campaign has set up a negative campaign alert hotline on the SC news website SCHotline.com. SCHotline is owned by Mike Green, a member of Thompson’s direct mail team. Mike Green writes:
Negative campaigning alert Hotline setup
January 7, 2008
Today SCHotline.com has established a state wide negative campaigning alert hotline. You may call and report any instance of negative campaigning 24 hours a day from now until the primary. The phone number is 1-800-236-1386. We also have set up a fax number to receive copies of negative mailpieces 803-753-9095.We will take your report and turn it over to the proper authorities.
Please give us as much detail as you can regarding when you saw, heard or received the negative campaigning. If you have a recording of the voice mail you received you may record it on our 800 number. Please give us the caller ID of the person making the call as well.
“The only way to stop negative campaigning is to expose it to the sunlight,” said Mike Green, editor of SCHotline.com. “They will scurry just like roaches do when you turn the light on them.”
This hotline is monitored twenty fours a day. You anonymity will be respected. Please give us as much detail as you can and remember no detail is to small.
SCHotline also has ties to Mike Huckabee’s campaign. Adam Piper is a SC Huckabee staffer and SCHotline editor.
Be assured that this “hotline” will be used to label some candidates negative.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Nice try guys. If you even post this response which I doubt you will.
You know that are co-owner Jeffrey Sewell is a Giuliana supporter and I used to work for Mitt Romney. To say the Thompson campaign set it is a misnomer. SCHotline set it up not the Thompson campaign.
January 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Mike - you guys continuously call us a Romney site although we do not work for Romney. However, you actively work for Fred Thompson.
In addition, Jeffrey may support Rudy, but he is not paid by Rudy. Nor was he the one quoted in the blog post.
Don’t dish the crap if you can’t take it.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
SC Hotline is trying to remain politically relevant, which is difficult to do with almost no commentary or original news stories. The website’s recent focus on US-Canadian foreign relations and regurgitated press releases just doesn’t generate a whole lot of interest.
I’ve been a loyal SC Hotline reader for 2 years, so this is not an indictment of the website, but rather a call for change.
And, speaking of sunlight and scurrying roaches, a little transparency regarding the business affiliations of SC Hotline’s owner/editors would be greatly appreciated.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Calhoun,
Would you support a call for a little transparency regarding the business affiliations of The Shot’s owners/editors?
I think that too is in order.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Marty - The Shot is run by Tim Cameron who works for First Tuesday Strategies and Under The Power Lines Netroots|New Media.
You can do the research yourself as to what that means, because we have told you over and over again but you still demand more transparency.
Go check out The Governor’s Spokesman at fitsnews.com. He has all the information you need to know about us.