Bob Marshall bites back against the inevitable Jim Gilmore...

Remember last week when former Gov. Jim Gilmore's campaign released internal canvassing numbers to suggest that Gilmore had wrapped up the Republican nomination to run for U.S. Senate.

At the time, the spokesman for Republican hopeful Bob Marshall called the claim "baloney," because delegates for the convention are still being elected.

On Thursday, Marshall's campaign got a little more personal, pointing on some of the history of Gilmore's political guru Dick Leggitt. Marhsall's team is pulling Leggitt's history and noting that he feed cooked polling data to reporters in Colorado in 2006. From the release:

  The Gilmore campaign is directed by long-time Gilmore confidante Dick Leggitt, who testified in a Colorado court in 2006 that he fabricated polling data for a gubernatorial campaign he was managing there and gave it to a Denver Post reporter, a violation of state law.  Leggitt resigned from that campaign “one week after [he] admitted under oath that he sent false polling numbers to a reporter,” according to a May 6, 2006, article in the Rocky Mountain News.

"Leggitt said he sent bogus numbers to the Denver Post but called it ‘spin,’” the newspaper reported, “and implied that it's a common practice among political operatives.”

No, Mr. Leggitt, not “spin.” Fudge.

Webster’s dictionary defines the non-sweet term as “put together dishonestly or carelessly; fake.” We agree. Fudge. Completely baloney.

Comments

[Shaun Kenney]

Example #466 (no need for repitition) of how anonymous names tear down others.

Sheesh. What a talent.

[Example #465]

Example number #465 of how desperate Bob Marshall and his campaign is getting. They went from running on the issues, to attacking Gilmore, to attacking Bolling & McDonnell and now attacking Gilmore staff. The only thing next is attacking the delegates and voters who end up rejecting him.