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Worse than trying to get your CD’s back after you break up with your girlfriend, the state Dems say that the Griffith campaign picked up some items on his way out the door, “in the wee hours.”
From a release by the Alabama Democratic Party today…
On the eve of his announcement of his party switch, Main Street Strategies, the Huntsville political consulting shop of Parker Griffith, downloaded sensitive voter identification data that was the property of the Alabama Democratic Party.
“The Democratic Party has spent untold sums of money building good data for elections and we make that data available to our Democratic candidates and officeholders. Mr. Griffith’s campaign benefited from this asset, and he wouldn’t be a Congressman today without it. Yet, in the wee hours before he became a Republican, Parker Griffith’s political operatives, with full knowledge of what was occurring, went online and downloaded our confidential records,” Chairman Joe Turnham said.
See the whole statement in the Political Parlor’s Press Release section.
If this is the software info I think it is, there will be a lawsuit over this. It is fully proprietary and will ultimately be returned. Question is, how many will see it before it gets returned?
What a sleazeball. Griffith out to be ashamed, and that viper Joey Ceci ought to be persona non grata with any Democratic candidate after masterminding this switch and then stealing sensitive data on the way out the door. Disgusting.
Charlie Cook has moved the 5th into the likely Republican category.
Griffith certainly is corrupt enough to be a Republican.
Return the money only after the Judges in Jefferson that switched to Democrat return their contributions
[...] 2009, at 3:46 pm Congressman Parker Griffith (R – Huntsville) responds to the release from the Alabama Democratic Party accusing him of downloading “sensitive voter identification data that was the property of the [...]
Main Street Strategies works both sides, sometimes simultaneously. For example, Steve Raby consulted on State 10 candidate Dem Jenny Askins campaign while partner Joey Ceci consulted on winner GOP Phil Williams campaign.
BTW Steve Raby was involved in ‘hijacking’ the GOP School Board primary a couple of years ago – downright anti-American if you ask me…
Reactionary,
Joey Ceci and Steve Raby are not partners. They do have an office on the same floor of the same building, but the operations are separate. Main Street Stategies is Joey Ceci’s outfit, and Raby is not part of that group.
I don’t believe that Joey has any Democrat candidates left as clients and he has helped Republicans, including me, for quite a while. I also expect his father-in-law Lynn Greer (a rock-solid Republican) to get help from Joey in a run for the House seat that he held from 2002-2006.
Consultants remind me of jockeys in a horse race. If the horses are closely matched, a good jockey can give a winning edge. But the best jockey in the world can’t make a nag outrun a thoroughbred.
“But the best jockey in the world can’t make a nag outrun a thoroughbred.”
Fob got elected twice.
Thanks Mike, I stand corrected.
I was under the (mistaken) impression that Raby and Ceci worked together.
Disclosure – I like Joey Ceci in real life, but haven’t seen him in awhile, so I’m pleased to hear that he’s fully on our side.