Posted by
Elendil on Thursday, July 06, 2006 6:18:46 PM
The Yarmuth campaign has looked amazingly inept recently. The problems started when an intern for Yarmuth was caught trying to infiltrate the Northup campaign. Now it appears they may have
violated the federal law with radio ads produced for the primary election.
Northup's campaign said both ads violated disclaimer requirements under federal law, and it sent a letter requesting the FEC investigation. Northup campaign chairman Ted Jackson accused Yarmuth of being unable to "follow the most basic campaign finance law. So either John Yarmuth is one of those few people who are unaware of the law, or he just decided not to follow it."
Yarmuth's campaign said it believes the commercials "complied with the spirit of the law. We are confident that no action by the FEC will be forthcoming."
The spirit of the law is not the letter of the law and I would not be surprised if the FEC rules against the Yarmuth campaign. This is just plain incompetence. If they can't right the ship, they will continue to be exposed as incompetent boobs. Especially this fall, when the campaign season swings into full gear.
Of course these events are trivial compared to the ice berg that the Yarmuth campaign struck today.
Northup's campaign has
reached an agreement with the LEO to provide access to copies of the magazine for the 15 years that it was run by Yarmuth. This will be the beginning of the end of the Yarmuth campaign. For it is in those weekly articles he has published over the last 15 years that many of his fringe leftist views were espoused. For it will be those words that will paint a picture of a man far outside the mainstream of American politics. Northup's team will use Yarmuth's own words to define the race and put the Yarmuth team on the defensive. This is a position they can ill afford to have. Especially with the incompetence they have shown over the last few months.