Reid, Angle spar over old website

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Republican nominee
Sharron Angle traded jabs over the weekend after Angle’s campaign took
legal action to prevent her opponent from re-posting an old version of
her campaign website on the Internet.

Last week Reid’s campaign
posted a previous version of Angle’s website at
www.TheRealSharronAngle.com after claims
that Angle had scrubbed 75 percent of the content related to her policy
positions following her win in the June 8 Republican primary.

“Obviously,
Sharron Angle’s new handlers are as alarmed by the prospect of
promoting Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada as most
mainstream voters will be when they learn her true views,” said Reid
campaign communications director Kelly Steele upon the site’s launch.

Within
24 hours, a lawyer from the Angle campaign responded with a
cease-and-desist letter
accusing Reid’s campaign of misappropriating copyrighted materials by
re-posting the website and capturing the names and e-mail addresses of
Angle supporters under false pretenses.

“Make no mistake, the Reid
campaign was forced to take this site down
because they were breaking several laws and trying to deceive the
voters,” Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy said. “You’re going to see a lot of
dirty tricks like that from Reid in this campaign.”

Reid’s campaign responded by replacing the site with another more clearly intended to lampoon Angle and her policy positions. Despite its apparent capitulation, Reid’s campaign still mocked the letter as a “threat of a frivolous lawsuit” and took a parting shot of its own.

“These are Sharron Angle’s positions in Sharron’s own words from Sharron’s own website. What was good enough for Nevada voters to read during the primary should be good enough for them now,” said Reid campaign spokesman Jon Summers.

“This is a clear case of a desperate man doing desperate things to win,” Angle’s spokesman said. “We knew that Harry Reid was trailing in the polls, and that he would do anything to win — but for Harry Reid’s campaign to resort to actually breaking the law is amazing even for him.”

“Harry Reid may feel like he is above the law when he’s off in Washington, but back here in Nevada we expect better from our leaders.”