I guess Tom Wilson is tired of looking like a jackass in the NJ GOP press releases and e-mails, so now he's having communications director Todd Riffle do it for him.
From an e-mail sent out today (emphasis mine):
New Jersey 9th Congressional District candidate Vice [sic] Micco will appear on the Hannity and Colmes T.V. program tonight at 9:00 PM to debate Rep. John Murtha's Democrat view of the war and the call to cut and run from Iraq.
Vince will offer a special point of view since he served nine years in the U.S. Army, including a year in Iraq as a sergeant fighting terrorism as part of a counter-intelligence unit.
He experienced the war on the front lines, not from behind a desk in Washington D.C. He saw the good things U.S. Soldiers are doing there and how much the Iraqi families appreciate what Americans are doing for them. Vince is running for the U.S. Congress in the Ninth District (Bergen, Hudson, Passaic counties) now because he believes America cannot back down in the war on terrorism.
On December 7, Mr. Riffle posted a release about a former Bob Menendez staffer who had been indicted after leaving his employ. Riffle left the comments open, and so HobokenMidget decided to comment about Mr. Riffle's past as an indicted political operative.
A Republican operative working for ex-Assembly Speaker Garabed "Chuck" Haytaian's failed comeback bid earlier this year has been indicted on charges stemming from opposition research work he did during the campaign and could face jail time.
Todd A. Riffle, 32, a former aide to Gov. Christine Todd Whitman and a staffer on several statewide GOP campaigns, was indicted on October 2 and charged with unlawfully obtaining and/or disclosing personal information from a motor vehicle record and false-swearing.
Both charges are fourth degree offenses, meaning that Riffle faces up to eighteen months in prison and a maximum fine of $10,000 if he is convicted, according to John Haggerty, a spokesman for the Division of Criminal Justice.
It takes some pretty big chutzpah to blast a guy for having a former staffer who got indicted when you yourself were indicted in the past. Plus, how can the Republicans seriously talk about cleaning up ethics in Trenton if they are hiring a guy like this for their spokesman?
But the kicker is he then posted releases on Dec. 15, Jan. 18 and Jan. 19 each of which had commenting turned off. After getting called out for his hypocricy in the comments, Riffle decided that his best course of action was to stop leaving the comments open when he posted press releases!
