Who Are these three endorsing? (Fake voter guide, MD)

[MGKrebs]

The green-and-red mailer claims to be an official voting guide. It includes the pictures of three prominent Democratic African-American leaders — County Executive Jack Johnson; his predecessor, Wayne Curry; and former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume — and it implies that they support incumbent Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich and GOP senatorial candidate Michael Steele.

The sentence beneath the photos reads: "These are our choices." However, none of the three leaders have endorsed the governor, and only one said he supported Steele.

The flier states clearly that it is paid for by the Ehrlich and Steele campaigns. The Prince George's County executive plans to hold a press conference later today to denounce the misleading flier.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2006/story?id=2634774&page=1

[tabasco]

1. Republican crooks brazenly attempt o fool voters.

I live in MD and I want the people responsible for this scam apprehended and JAILED !

[aquart]

2. Just got an email from a Maryland friend about that.

[stepnw1f]

3. Three Criminals Going to Jail

[AlCzervik]

4. it's happening all over the country, i got 3 fake mailers from "Democrats"

all endorsing republican candidates, fake voter guides.

[MGKrebs]

5. When party leaders continually insist that our lives

(and our children's lives!) are at stake depending on our choices at the ballot box, it invites an "anything goes" attitude among some activists.

This is true of both sides of course, although I think it is much more widespread and more of an accepted strategy for the other side.