I just received this e-mail from the Morrison campaign this evening. No, the "Fact Check" was not attached. Signed by State Senator Jeff Mangan, Larry Anderson. and Matt Thiel, the letter lays out the case why I should vote for John Morrison, including this passage:
John Morrison’s campaign has the momentum in this race. And the clearest indication of that momentum? The non-stop attacks from Jon Tester. It’s disappointing to see Jon Tester resort to these tactics, and it’s up to us to fight back and make sure we come together to focus on beating Conrad Burns in November.
This past Sunday, a Mason Dixon poll showed that John Morrison is the strongest Democratic candidate to beat Conrad Burns in November. Even after months of nothing but false, negative attacks from Jon Tester, Montanans know that John Morrison has the common sense solutions to bring everyday Montanans together to get the job done.
A few thoughts come to mind.
First of all, no slight intended to Mr. Anderson and Mr. Thiel, but couldn’t the Morrison campaign come up with a few more recognizable names? Maybe not, since the vast majority of the legislature, a seemingly large percentage of John Morrison’s former staffers, and his former boss all see that Jon Tester is the best choice for the Democrats.
Second, what negative attacks? If Mr. Morrison thinks the Tester campaign has been negative, what in the hell will he do once the huge Burns warchest is deployed to investigate his past indiscretions and promote them to the public? This letter absolutely proves that John Morrison cannot withstand the kind of campaign that Montana’s GOP will bring against him.
It also shows that his lack of integrity goes deeper than we have seen. To suggest that Jon Tester has employed ‘false, negative’ and ‘non-stop’ attacks, suggests that Mr. Morrison is a coward and a liar. Before anyone is tempted to believe the Morrison spin, ask yourself what another candidate might have done with the infidelity and impropriety in Morrison’s past.
Finally, the letter comes at an interesting time. In my mind this evening, I was playing around with the idea of what I will do if John Morrison does win Tuesday–because it is going to be close. This letter makes it pretty clear that John Morrison is not the kind of candidate or person I can support–sure I might vote for him, because anyone is better than Burns, but that’s all I will do.
One thing I do believe: win or lose, Jon Tester will be out campaigning, for himself or Morrison. Does anyone really believe that Morrison would do the same?
Update: And momentum? Who are they kidding?
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Eric Coobs 06.05.06 at 6:10 am
The Democrats will have some making up to do Wednesday. If everybody who supported Pat Davison during the gubernatorial primary last time would have supported Bob Brown in the general election, we’d have Governor Brown right now.
Matt Singer 06.05.06 at 8:52 am
Yeah, I’ve not been much impressed by Jeff Mangan. He sponsored a fair amount of anti-democratic legislation, including I believe the atrocious anti-initiative legislation that was struck down for violating the principle of one person, one vote.
To describe Tester’s campaign as non-stop attacks on John Morrison is ludicrous.
The truth is that Morrison will be absolutely slaughtered this fall. I’ve heard that former supporters are asking for refunds and Morrison is refusing to give them. Come this fall, if Morrison is the nominee, there’ll be a heck of a lot more people angry with him for getting their support without being honest about the skeletons in his closet.
That makes tomorrow all the more important.
Vote Tester.
Ryan 06.05.06 at 2:59 pm
From out in North Dakota-land (You betcha!), here’s hoping Tester gets the nod.