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Monday, February 19, 2007

Pennsylvania: Online parody recalls Russ Diamond's law suit

A tangled Web at state House
GOP campaign material was improperly stored on a Pa. government Web site funded by taxpayers.
By Mario F. Cattabiani ...Kate Philips, Rendell's press secretary, called the cartoon "bush league."
"Wrong doesn't begin to describe it," Philips said. (Rendell shatters a scale during the fight's weigh-in.) "It was disrespectful, distasteful and, frankly, a little dumb."
It's not the first time House Republicans have faced questions about use of state computers.
Last year, Russ Diamond, founder of PaCleanSweep, a group formed in response to the 2005 pay raise, sued a House GOP staffer for defamation.
The suit alleged that the staffer, Bob Nye, had created an online parody equating Diamond with former Enron chief Kenneth Lay. Nye acknowledged the site was his, but said he had done it entirely on his home computer. A federal judge dismissed the case in October....
(Philadelphia Inquirer)

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