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From the Chicago Sun-Times:
An unknown person used Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign Web site to send out threatening and derogatory e-mails to employees at a Texas-based company, according to a lawsuit filed by the company Friday in Cook County Circuit Court.
Like many Web sites, Obama’s has a function to “tell a friend” or “pass the word,” allowing a visitor to fill in e-mail addresses in the “to” and “from” lines.
The suit, filed against a John Doe and seeking in excess of $30,000, claims someone sent e-mails to all employees of CCR Technologies in September, each time claiming they were from the CEO.
What was the content of these messages?
The first e-mail, allegedly from CEO Tom Coyne, was packed with “many racially denigrating words and phrases,” and said “if they wanted to keep their jobs, they would support Obama for president and that they would receive a $5,000 bonus for their vote for Obama,” the lawsuit claims.
A follow-up e-mail, again sent via Obama’s Web site, again purported to be from Coyne and told all employees of the chemical technology firm that the office was closing and if they “would have been better employees [CCR] would have succeeded.”
CCR’s attorneys at Mayer Brown declined comment. Obama campaign officials said they were unaware of the issue.
More bad news for the Obama camp when paired with this little tidbit-
Triggered by an item in Bob Novak’s Sunday column suggesting that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has dirt on Sen. Barack Obama but won’t use it, Obama’s campaign Saturday accused Clinton’s team of using “Swift boat” tactics against him.
Obama sent out an e-mail calling on the Clinton campaign to renounce the item, which he said was “heavy on innuendo and insinuation,” adding, “The cause of change in this country will not be deterred or sidetracked by the old ‘Swift boat’ politics.
The 2004 White House campaign of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) was savaged by TV ads undermining his military career, funded by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
A reason the Obama campaign went on the offensive — or that any campaign might — could be to protect itself from material that could surface later.
Well, that could suck. Gotta love politics.
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