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| Contributor | MadViking |
| Last Edited | MadViking Aug 09, 2006 01:18pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, August 9, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Many of the bloggers who were the foot soldiers in Ned Lamont's upstart campaign to unseat Sen. Joseph Lieberman were up early Tuesday morning, the fire of an electoral rebellion burning in their bellies.
Their early posts were impassioned pleas to get out the vote, or personal accounts of what it was like to pull a lever for their man Lamont.
But by late morning, they had something juicier to go after. Lieberman's campaign accused Lamont supporters - by implication the bloggers who had vexed him for months - of hacking its website and e-mail system, crippling them on primary day.
Bloggers responded with everything from conspiracy theories that Lieberman's own campaign had done it to cast Lamont in a bad light, to allegations that the campaign had failed to pay the bill for its server.
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By late afternoon, Tim Tagaris, Lamont's Internet communications director, went on the offensive. He said the Lieberman campaign had chosen an inferior web host, or ISP, and was only paying $15 a month to operate its site.
The campaign website, he said, probably had the most traffic of the sites being hosted by that ISP and was overloading the system.
"The raft is sinking, the raft is sinking, so you kick the fat kid off of the raft," Tagaris said.
By comparison, the Lamont campaign is paying $1,500 a month to host its website and that doesn't include the entire cost, he said. |
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