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Janet Oleszek’s Spy Corps
By Greg L | 11 June 2007 | Fairfax County, Virginia Senate | 1 Comment
What is this with Janet Oleszek’s spy operations? First there’s a bone-headed attempt to infiltrate the Cucinelli campaign with this guy, and in the most recent issue of the Cucinelli Compass, there’s another strange incident. Is the entire campaign staff of Janet Oleszek doing nothing but trying to figure out what Ken Cucinelli is doing? I can only imagine what Oleszek would do if elected. Ken says there’s even more to this story…
From the current issue of the Cucinelli Compass:
On Saturday, May 12th, we had our legislative breakfast. It’s an annual event that some of you have attended in which we discuss (very candidly) what went on in the most recent general assembly session. It’s a nuts-and-bolts discussion for political activists who want to know how things happened, as opposed to most people that just want to know what the outcomes were.
Of course, we are always looking to bring in new people, as we do at every event. And as we usually do, to one degree or another, we succeeded in bringing in some new folks. At this particular event, one of the new folks was a young man named Al Bender. Al paid his $25 donation and mingled with the other participants. Something didn’t feel quite right, but Al was a nice enough guy, a pro-lifer from New Jersey he said…
So we had our event. Ate our breakfast. Talked about the session in some detail. And asked everyone to help out as the campaign went forward.
Al was nice enough to volunteer for future campaign duties, and he asked us to keep in touch with him about what was going on (i.e., ‘please put me on your internal email lists…’). Isn’t that nice?
So, some time goes by, and we discover that good ol’ Al Bender the alleged pro-lifer from New Jersey has a Facebook page.
For those that don’t know, Facebook is one of the social networking sites on the Internet that have taken off in recent years. People register on Facebook as individuals and join groups, including political groups. They put up detailed descriptions of themselves and their interests. They share pictures and discussion with other people in the groups that they join. It’s a place on the Internet where people can find other like-thinking people and socialize with them.
Some of the groups that Al is a part of include: “Virginia Students for Barack Obama (Official State Chapter),” “Janet for Fairfax,” “George Barker for VA Senate,” “Jim Webb,” and “Next Generation Democrats,” among others. Remember, the real Janet from Fairfax (our opponent) is already endorsed by EMILY’s list.
Does that sound like a pro-lifer from New Jersey to you?
Me neither.
One of Al’s favorite books is “1984.” Maybe he’s practicing to be Big Brother. Another one is “Lord of the Flies.” Uh oh, we better be careful.
I also loved one of his favorite quotes, from Shakespeare: “Love all, trust few, do wrong to none.”
So much for that ‘do wrong to none’ bit, huh?
So, what do we do? Well, initially we didn’t do anything, we just didn’t send him anything sensitive and we took him off of our internal email lists. I figured that it was at least possible that he was switching teams (no Seinfeld jokes please), even if it seemed very unlikely. Okay, we didn’t really think that was possible… but we played along to see what would happen.
So, what happened you ask?
Today I went to the Celebrate Fairfax Festival (Fairfax Fair) and walked around talking to lots of voters and other friends that I saw there (and some new ones I met today). I stopped by the Republican booth at the Fair to thank our volunteers for carrying the flag for the GOP team today.
The GOP booth was right next to the Scientologist booth and on the other side of the Scientologists was the Democrats’ booth. Well, who was manning the Democrats’ booth but our own good friend Al Bender, ‘pro-lifer from New Jersey’!
On my way out of the fair, I walked over to the Democrats’ booth with our campaign manager, Mike Joyce, and spoke to Al. He recognized both of us immediately (he had been running from their booth whenever any Republicans came over to take pictures of the Dems’ booth). I told him that I was surprised to see him there and disappointed. He was caught and he was guilty. To his credit, his conscience finally kicked in and he started apologizing to me and then to Mike. He didn’t say anything else, which was just as well. I didn’t stick around to carry on a conversation, as I was pretty sickened by the whole affair.
So, it seems that my esteemed opponent (“Janet for Fairfax”) decided to send Master Bender to lie his way into our legislative breakfast and to lie about his interest in volunteering for our campaign in order to infiltrate our campaign. Now, I’ve heard people joke about this sort of thing, but I’ve never actually seen anyone actually go to these lengths to SPY on their opponent.
These don’t sound like the actions of a campaign that expects to be debating issues… it also provides a charming example for her young staffers about ethics, honesty and hard work (or not).
Now, even as outrageous as Janet’s actions with Al Bender were, I would’ve simply laughed it off as unbelievable childishness; however, this is not the only instance of such behavior.
Some of you may have noticed that I have been calling this “Act III.” That’s because it wasn’t the first time my opponent has stooped to these sorts of tactics.
In the next issue of The Cuccinelli Compass, we will go back through time and tell you about another time that our opponent pulled this kind of stunt (who knows how many Acts of this play there could be? The play still has 5 more months…).
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Wow…you found out he was spying by reading his Facebook?
So…does that mean it’s ok for YOU to spy as long as you catch a spy?