Here's what I found out about that GOP-run web-site, www.kucinich.com, that grabs any e-mail with the word BUSH out of your e-mail system.
((I am the one who edited the e-mail addresses and company names from this since the authors did not give me permission to re-broadcast them))Recieved this warning from the DK HQ's a few weeks ago.
From: "Kucinich Virtual Outreach Coordinator" |
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:34:39 -0500
Subject: Warning re kucinich.com and spam reports
We got the following message in from a Kucinich supporter and I wanted to share it and another caution:
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A warning should be sent out to members about kucinich.com - when I posted a message to this nuisance web site two things happened:
1) I got a spam message back from the webmaster and
2) I noticed that a message had been sent from my computer to the web site.
After going back and forth with this email train with the webmaster, I used the Outlook 2000 feature to check for "related" messages and found that
two totally unrelated messages had also been linked in from my server based personal folders. Both of these unrelated emails were from another unrelated email chain, but THEY WERE THE ONLY TWO MESSAGES IN MY FOLDER THAT MENTIONED GEORGE BUSH in the body of the message. This was a company based email server to which access is limited only to emails. (By the way although difficult to prosecute,
this is a crime that was committed here, as it was company property.)
While I have no proof that dirty tricks are coming from this particular web site, I suspect a hack is in the mix there somewhere and the timing is very suspicious.
I would recommend that kucinich.com be avoided / excluded / filtered and that webmaster@kucinich.com be added to spam filters to prevent the introduction of any email related search viruses. I have already instructed XXXX (edited to protect supporter supplying this information) network personnel to take this precaution.
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So folks – block those cookies and be careful out there. Make certain your anti-virus programs are up-to-date and consider the installation of a firewall and an anti-trojan if you don’t have one. If you are not sure what a firewall or anti-trojan program is, here is one of many sites on the net that offers some explanations.
http://www.firewallguide.com/Claudia Slate
e-mail edited
Virtual Outreach Coordinator
Kucinich in 2004 Campaign
www.kucinich.us
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In an April 9, 2003 e-mail Motley commented on his "Truth About Dennis Kucinich" site,
I have learned that some people can take a joke and some cannot. A few people opposed to my site actually have a sense of humor which is comforting.
Motley explains his motivation in the "About Us" section of the site:
This website is run by me as a personal project. I guess you could call it a "labor of love".
I picked up the domain about four years ago when I realized that it was available and Dennis had not grabbed it. I originally had www.kucinch.org as well but it didn't get that many hits so I dropped it. I started getting tons of hits when the Kucinich for President Campaign (hee hee - I snicker when I hear that) announced it was using www.kucinch.us as it's official site. I've gotten over 7,000 hits (as of March 25) since the announcement in late February! Most of these hits are from folks looking for the official site so you can imagine the response I get from them.
As a Cleveland native, I have followed Dennis' career for the last three decades and have grown to despise him. Quite simply, Dennis is a communist, baby-killing, carrot-chomping, opportunist who is DANGEROUS and who drove us to war with Iraq with his so-called peace efforts. He has done NOTHING in his 30 + years on the public dole except grab headlines. He has created no jobs, has no ideas and is just out for himself. He has no idea what this region needs and doesn't care. He's an embarrassment to Northeastern Ohio and I am trying, in a little way, to get the word out about him. If people know what he really stands for, there's NO WAY he will be able to keep his job.
By the way, the web site has no connection to Dennis Kucinich. And
while I am a registered Republican and am active in local politics, the site is not sponsored or supported by any political party. I have a regular job in the private sector, pay taxes, am married and am trying to raise my kids in this world being corrupted by Dennis and other "evil doers". The site is funded by me and operated by me. My only motive is to spread the truth about Dennis Kucinich!
John Motley
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/cands/web0403b.html ----
Election 2004 March 03, 2003
Strongsville GOP's Childish TacticsTonight I happened upon www.kucinich.com... which turns out to be a juvenile, hateful, anti-Kucinich web portal.
BY Brian Douglas
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Disgusted with this, I decided to find out who is behind it. Well, I did a domain look up, and the best I could find was that the web site was registered by a "J Motley", with additional contact information pointing to P.O. Boxes and unaffiliated phone #'s. So whoever is behind it is too cowardly to admit it. So after some googling, I finally found this:
http://www.strongsvillegop.com/Contact%20Us.htm ((GOP ??? HMMM- More Rove tactics from these Freeper Nazis or what?! ))You'll note the Vice President is
John Motley, and in the "Links" box on the right side of the page you'll see Kucinich.com
I was very disgusted and discouraged by www.kucinich.com. I am doing my best to support candidates like Kucinich, and am doing my best to spread the word about his recently announced candidacy, and it really pisses me off that a lot of people who will want to find out more about him, may just go ahead and type in www.kucinich.com only to find that the GOP has gotten their hands on it.
The twisted minds of the republican campaign managers have been pretty web-savvy in the past. I remember reading an article a while ago about how GW's campain went and bought roughly 200 domains that could have been used against them (i.e. www.dontvotebush.com bushsucks.com nobush2000.com etc). ((And yes that article is in the DU archives))
There's got to be a way to make this work against the Republicans. <snip> it so brashly demonstrates the immature, dirty political tactics of the republican party. Everyone I've shown this site to found it just as disgusting as me, and thereby either strengthened Kucinich, weakened his opposition, and many times both.
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:4Wvbhfb_n7MJ:www.just-cause.org/archives/000005.html+%22John+Motley%22+Republican+kucinich&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8
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