Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Guerilla Campaigning!   [Stephen Spruiell]

Just a few moments ago, Hillary Clinton’s campaign called an “emergency” conference call to complain about several allegations it has received about voter intimidation in Texas, but as soon as they finished detailing the allegations and opened the call to questions from reporters, Obama campaign general counsel Bob Bauer crashed the call and accused Hillary spokesman Howard Wolfson of leveling similar complaints every time Clinton appears poised to lose a caucus. The two had a heated exchange for the benefit of all the reporters on the call.

Bauer asked Wolfson how these complaints were different from any of the complaints the Clinton campaign has made in every contest she’s lost. “In Nevada, you filed a lawsuit before the caucuses even began, and in Iowa you threatened students,” Bauer said. “This isn’t the first time you’ve done something like this.”

Wolfson said that the Clinton campaign didn’t file the Nevada lawsuit and that the Obama complain had lodged plenty of complaints of its own. Bauer accused Wolfson of attacking the caucus process. Wolfson said it had nothing to do with that.

Subsequent to the exchange, Wolfson identified Bauer to curious reporters. “What you heard was Bob Bauer,” he said, “attempting a vigorous defense of the indefensible.”

03/04 09:13 PMShare