That Character Issue Didn’t Last Long.
Sputtering Republican U.S. Senate aspirant Rob Simmons declared at Tuesday’s debate that a party reveals its character by the candidates it nominates. Nominate me, he seemed to suggest, and you will wrap your party in my rectitude. Rut-roh, good thing Simmons didn’t press the point beyond his non-sequitur. There’s a plagiarism brouhaha brewing in Camp Simmons and it’s revealing more than sticky fingers on other people’s work.
Seems Simmons has been ballyhooing as his own a small business plan that is just like the one developed by National Federation of Independent Business. The plan disappeared from the Simmons campaign website shortly after the AP made inquiries into the provenance of the Simmons plan. All those meetings with state businesses while Simmons was Jodi Rell’s small business advocate appear not to have inspired sufficient original thoughts in the three term former congressman to devise his own plan.
As disappointing is Simmons passing off the blunder on a “young staffer who borrowed the words without attribution,” according to his campaign manager, Jim Barnett. A young staffer? That’s who wrote lifted the Simmons plan to revive prosperity?
We know character when we see it, and it’s not on display at the Simmons campaign today.
5 comments
Kevin,
Isn’t your paper being sued for plagiarism?
Kevin,
With all due respect, it’s not like Linda McMahon has proposed an original idea during her candidacy. Certainly Simmons’ team should be called out for this plagiarism, but both sides basically churn out variations of the same talking points. The only issue here is that Simmons’ violation was flagrant.
*GASP* Simmons has a plan that reflects the priorities of the lead small business advocacy group in the country? How terrible! He should be taking his marching orders from big government unions and left wing think tanks instead. [/sarc]
One more thing, I noticed that there was no post on Daily Ructions regarding Linda McMahon’s factually inaccurate mailers for which the campaign had to issue a retraction…
http://www.linda2010.com/blog/2010/03/setting-the-record-straight-on-rob-simmons-and-acorn-2/
Et tu Kevin?
Linda got you on some sort of retainer does she?
She’s seems to be handing out cash by the fist full all over the place with varying results.
Take the town of Tolland for example, where the Republicans voted to send her bribe donation back and then unanimously endorsed Simmons.