John Raese Rips Page From Sharron Angle's Media Strategy Playbook, Dodges Press

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Hey, the Tea-Partiers said they would bring change and they have. Presenting the Stealth Candidates -- the challenge: get yourself elected without letting the voters find out who you are, or what you are up to.!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/john-raese-rips-page-from_n_774301.html


West Virginia Republican Senate candidate John Raese appeared to rip a page out of fellow conservative contender Sharron Angle's playbook on Tuesday when members of the press were restricted from a rally for his campaign in the Mountain State.

Angle, who is looking to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, has developed a reputation for being media shy and has gone to great lengths to avoid taking questions from reporters. This week, HuffPost's Sam Stein reported that the GOP hopeful even relied on a decoy to dodge the press in the Silver State.

Raese -- who's facing off against Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin for the Senate seat long held by the late Sen. Robert Byrd -- seems to be running with the Angle campaign media strategy.

As Arizona Sen. John McCain took to West Virginia to stump for Raese at the American Legion in Charles Town, local outlet WHAG reports that members of the press were informed ahead of time that they would not be welcome to cover the event.
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A new definition of Democracy: Government of fooling the people, faking out the people, for the inner circle of people. Hey, that's not new, that's just more of the old Republican Con-the-People campaigning!