Breaking News Re Godfreyite Political Dirty Tricks

Boss Godfrey crudely manufactures and fabricates a bogus Governor Huntsman "endorsement"

We've had several communications this afternoon from gentle readers reporting that The Boss Godfrey campaign is now resorting to desperate political dirty tricks.

The word is that the Godfreyites are using one of those infernal autodialer machines, to deliver a purported Governor Huntsman endorsement of Boss Godfrey to lumpencitizens who are so unfortunate as to find their phone numbers listed on the publicly-available registered voter lists.

What these evil Godfreyites are doing is misrepresenting the facts -- i.e., LYING. What they've done is to "cut" a few pro-Godfrey words from a generic speech made by Jon Huntsman a few weeks ago, during the Amer Sports ribbon cutting. What they've done with that is to launch a robot phone-dialer spam campaign, based on some crude cut/pastes, and have similarly produced at least one now-running highly deceptive radio ad.

We've talked to the press spokesman for Governor Huntsman's office within the last hour, where the phones have been predictably "ringing off the hook" about this. She assures us that the matter appearing on the radio, as well as the content included in the autodialor spam, is entirely unauthorized by the Huntsman administration.

She also assures us that Governor Huntsman HAS NOT ENDORSED BOSS GODFREY!

Update 11/1/07 6:08 a.m. MT: This morning's Standard-Examiner reports that Governor Huntsman's office "asked" Boss Godfrey yesterday to "pull" the unauthorized autodialer spam message. Godfrey's campaign, which is being run by a $6 thousand/month campaign management professional, with experience in major camaigns all over Utah, feigns innocence, claiming it was all a big mistake. Here's Godgrey's lame excuse for his campaign's latest breach of campaign ethics: "Godfrey said his campaign staff wasn’t told it needed permission to include the sound bite in the phone message."

Yeah... that's the ticket. Right.