Steve Hildebrand, Tom Daschle's campaign manager, presumed to tell us this past weekend in a press release about "how we do things in South Dakota." Excerpt from the Hildebrand press release:
"Berating young staffers and referring to public officials with obscenities is not how we do things in South Dakota."
So what's Hildebrand's version of how we do things in South Dakota? One can easily discover the answer to this question by reading a piece in the Washington Post dated May 31, 2003. Excerpt:
Hildebrand said the campaign has assembled embarrassing information on several conservatives who are considering more attack ads against Daschle. The information includes videotape of a conservative activist discussing how he paid for his girlfriend's abortion.
It doesn't get much sleazier than that, especially when one considers that the so-called "videotape of a conservative activist discussing how he paid for his girlfriend's abortion" is in actuality videotaped testimony of Christian redemption in a public appearance by Rushmore Policy Council head Rob Regier.
Local radio talk show host Greg Belfrage has also been the target of Steve Hildebrand's attempts to stifle dissent.
Jeff Gannon, resident DC expert on South Dakota politics, reported last year on Daschle's "Mafia tactics and intimidation" to silence his opponents in South Dakota in a piece headlined "Critics: Daschle's Soft Image Masks Political Machine."
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