Thursday, July 2, 2009
News Erick Erickson hot on trail of RomneyGingrich12!
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM
Erick Erickson, editor of Peach Pundit and RedState, has gotten all Lawnmower Man up in this and rappelled into the darkest depths of the Internet to do some good-ole fashioned sleuthing.
For several days, Erickson's had a sneaking suspicion that someone close to state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has been vandalizing Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel's Wikipedia entry. Handel and Oxendine are considered front runners in the race that's still more than a year away.
A few readers — some of whom it's safe to assume are supporters of Das Ox — questioned Erickson's motives. (It's worth noting that he's a fan of Handel.) But now he's uncovered some more evidence.
So while I realize the Oxendine supporters will use this as a forum to go after me again for daring to speculate based on the circumstantial evidence at the time, as the Oxendine campaign seems intent on doing, the Oxendine campaign is not out of the woods by a long shot.I now have the IP address from which RomneyGingrich12 made the changes to Karen Handel’s biography.
That IP address is a State of Georgia IP address that, I understand, connects from the Sloppy Floyd building. Unfortunately, it is also my understanding that it is pretty difficult to tell from there which computer, in fact, uses that particular IP address or it may rotate.
Read a list of more clues over at Peach Pundit.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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You left out the part where he accused a specific individual by name, despite not having any evidence of that person's involvement. (He's since been forced to retract that accusation.) Nothing celebrates the Fourth of July like a witchhunt!
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