Dirty Trick Alert: What kind of website does this look like (link is to screenshot of web site, not the site itself).
For those not wanting to click:
The URL is contribute dot sinkforcongress2014 dot com.
The name of the tab in Chrome is “Alex Sink for Congress”
The page itself says, with large blue and green coloring, “Alex Sink for Congress”.
There is a nice picture of Alex Sink (D:Fl) smiling and presumably greeting her supporters.
If you think this is a fund-raising page for democratic congress member Alex Sink, boy are you a tool. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll see:
Now to be fair, it does say in pretty large print “Make a contribution today to help defeat Alex Sink and candidates like her” at the top of the contribution area. But when I first did a quick scan of the page, I glossed over the word “defeat” (maybe because it’s at the end of a line) and it took me a half a minute or so to figure out what was wrong with the page.
This RNC is phishing for money and personal information by tricking people into thinking that donations are going to “Alex Sink for Congress”.
The Republicans are unapologetic. They claim they are providing information that would otherwise be unavailable on the real candidate’s site. The problem I see with that is the part about taking contributions. Domain squatting is one thing, using the same format that the Democrats use is another issue entirely. I guess fraud is a good thing.
Oh, hell, that’s just a plain old silly ass dirty trick. Gonna play politics, better put your big boy pants on. Besides, they did it first, which makes anything we do OK. Pretty sure thats Scripture.
Anyway, they want to play dirty tricks on the internet? Heh. Bring it.
And then any Republicans elected with the help of these sort of shenanigans will take the next logical step and use these as their templates for new, redesigned ballots.
And I posted this already elsewhere, but there are boatloads of stupid coming from the Republicans for making moves like this one against minorities like Hispanics and Asians, seems that they **do **want to lose their votes.
And yes, that was the WSJ telling Bohener what a tool he is.
I have a friend who works on the Sink campaign. Late last I Googled her website and that was the first hit. When I saw it I fired off an e-mail to my friend who said they were aware of it and unworried. Today, the site was 404’d when I tried to go to it.
The disclosures on the internet and newspaper articles about the GOP’s nationwide series of fake websites may have embarrassed the GOP into abandoning the effort. If so, they should have seen this result and it makes a really fine example of a stupid GOP idea.
