Fred Thompson,  Mitt Romney,  President 2008

Mitt Romney Watch: The Phoneyfred.org Flap Part II

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Flap receives an e-mail from the Romney campaign:

Flap,

As reported in the Boston Globe, the site has no direct affiliation to our campaign, and we had no knowledge of its development.

Once we received inquiries about the site, we discovered it was created by an individual who parked the site temporarily on the company server space of a firm whose financial partner is a consultant to the campaign- Mr. Tompkins. Mr. Tompkins also had absolutely no knowledge about the development of the site or that it was temporarily parked on the firm’s server.

We informed this party that as a result of that server use, we were receiving inquires about the site. We made it clear that we did not approve of the site and asked for immediate action to make sure it was again in no way affiliated with the campaign.

The person responsible is not an employee of ours, but we took immediate action to make sure it was clear the site was not affiliated with the campaign.

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2007/09/romney_camp_dis.html

I’d appreciate an update with this information and/or link.

Thanks,

Stephen B. Smith

Director of Online Communications

Romney for President, Inc.

www.MittRomney.com

phone number redacted (w)

phone number redacted (m)

address redacted(Google / AIM)

**********

Ok, here is the e-mail but Flap has some questions of the Romney campaign:

1. Who were the indvidual(s) responsible for the web site? Names, addresses and contact information, please. Flap and others would like to interview them.

2. Will Governor Romney personally condemn such campaign tactics (“high-tech gutter politics”) and sign a pledge that he will not participate in them in any way?

3. Explain which employee of Mr. Warren Thompkins has responsibility for their computer servers. Name, address and contact information please.

4. Address the contention of the Fred Thompson campaign that Mr. Warren Thompkins should resign.

Update:

Flap received this e-mail from Mr. Smith:

Dr. Cole,

I’d ask that you please remove my contact information from your blog post as soon as possible.

As the Associated Press reports, the responsible individual is a managing partner of a firm jointly owned with Tompkins. Tompkins was unaware the site had been developed or that it was hosted on the firm’s server.

Thanks,

Stephen

Flap will now remove the contact information as requested by Mr. Smith.  But, a word to the wise to online communications directors: unless one specifically requests “non-attribution” then anything you send by e-mail to a blogger will be published.
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