Details: Reid-Angle Web War

Sharron Angle campaign release:

Senator Harry Reid's Campaign Forced to Take Down Deceptive Website

Reid Campaign blamed for trying to capture data belonging to Angle Supporters

Reno, NV – Today U.S. Senator Harry Reid's campaign was forced to take down a website that falsely represented itself as Sharron Angle's campaign website and attempted to deceive Angle supporters into giving their personal information to the Reid campaign. Reid's campaign received a Cease and Desist Notice complaining of “nefarious actions,” including the abuses of proprietary materials from the Angle campaign website and for potentially violating the privacy of supporters who may have been submitting personal information to be used for U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle's campaign.

According to a letter from the Angle campaign's lawyer, "… these activities violate a number of federal statutes regarding the internet and your client has clearly misappropriated my client's copyrighted materials. In addition it appears that the only interactive function on the fake site is the capturing of names of persons seeking to add their names and email addresses as supporters of Sharron Angle."

Angle spokesman Jerry Stacy said that Reid's campaign responded immediately by removing the site. “Make no mistake, the Reid campaign was forced to take this site down because they were breaking several laws and trying to deceive the voters,” Stacy said. “You're going to see a lot of dirty tricks like that from Reid's campaign.”

Stacy also added that he is not surprised by the continual shady tactics coming from the Reid campaign. “This is a clear case of a desperate man doing desperate things to win. We knew that Harry Reid was trailing in the polls and that he would do anything to win -- but for Harry Reid's campaign to resort to actually breaking laws would be amazing even for him. Harry Reid may feel like he is above the law when he's off in Washington, but back here in Nevada we expect better from our leaders. This is just one more reason Harry Reid has got to go.”

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Harry Reid campaign release:

ANGLE TAKES LEGAL ACTION TO SILENCE…SHARRON ANGLE

Republican Candidate can run, but can't hide from her long-held extreme positions

LAS VEGAS--Sharron Angle must really be scared that the extreme positions she has held for her lengthy political career are already coming back to haunt her. The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate is now taking legal action to have her former campaign website removed from the Web in an effort to hide her dangerous and extreme policies from Nevada voters who she knows will reject them.

That's right. Sharron Angle is trying to silence, well, Sharron Angle.

The day after Angle won the Republican primary, she scrubbed her campaign website, leaving only a page for online contributions and limited descriptions of where she stands on certain issues. Then, just last week, Angle launched her new site, but 75% of the language she had on her original issues page was missing. In an effort to make sure Nevadans know where Angle actually stands on the issues, the Reid campaign launched www.therealsharronangle.com, which displays the original content from Angle's previous website.

That must have been more than the self-proclaimed Oath Keeper could handle, because she sent the Reid campaign a cease and desist letter, calling for www.therealsharronangle.com to be pulled off the Web. Despite her threat of a frivolous lawsuit, Nevada voters can still learn about her long-held policy positions at www.sharronsundergroundbunker.com.

“These are Sharron Angle's positions in Sharron's own words from Sharron's own website. What was good enough for Nevada voters to read during the primary should be good enough for them now,” said Reid campaign spokesman Jon Summers. “Sharron has long believed in killing Social Security, eliminating the Departments of Education and Energy and shipping nuclear waste to Nevada. We've always heard that Sharron Angle is an unapologetic conservative. It has to be embarrassing for her to have her handlers trying to hide who she really is.”