...not being unethical? Hence, his lack of commentary about this? From the sound of it, he did exactly what an ethical person should do. (Recused himself.) Not sure if I'm getting the meaning behind this diary? Again, you're calling him out for not being unethical?

Please explain.

Sounds to me like Jerome behaved most ethically, in fact.

and the campaign of hope continues its trend of subtle character assassination.  if you really wanted to know what the deal was as you say - then why didnt you email him?

organization whoes mission is to register as many unmarried women as possible is unsavory?

Two thoughts...

1) He was on vacation for like two weeks
2) He really only writes about polls and ads as of late

It may have been intentional or maybe not, but certainly the above leads me too believe he was just busy and / or not interested.  Also, just because someone works for a group does not mean they fully understand the workings of that group.  In the case of this group, it is mailings and phone calls that I believe are in question, where Jerome is apperantly working on web stuff according to your post.

Titles of diaries should not be inflammatory, call out other users or the site, and will be deleted if not edited out, and the user banned.

I'm sure if the RNC was targeting Hillary and surpressing her vote, you wouldn't stand still.

I know Hill wouldn't  - after all, she's a fighter!

The problem was that the robo calls were giving out untrue information that was meant to keep people away from the polls.

"IF" it is true then it does bother me that Jerome had this connection and was so fast to take a diary questioning WVWV off the rec'd list, ban a lot of posters that contributed to the dairy, and take away the rec/rate powers from people that rec'd the diary.

Maybe because it was a non story, and only lasted for a day.  Seems a number of Democratic candidate supporters were involved.  It never really made the news.  So what would be the point?

oh no! alert the press Jerome is a dirty nazi masquerading as a blogger! hahaa jk

I give him the benefit of the doubt. What is the purpose of revealing these ties. Are you trying to insinuate something or tie Jerome with the actual calls or something.

---I think this was a bad move, you have not accomplished anything other than insinuate Jerome had a hand in the incident.

we all know guilty til proven innocent isn;t how it works in america,....

ok...here's the thing- maybe jerome's totally innocent here, maybe he's not.  But i just have to say that personally, there have just been too many maybe-he's-shady moments for me.

i tend to trust my gut when it comes to deciding whether people are honest or whether they're hiding something.  and from where i stand, i just wish jerome would be more up-front with his readers.  what does he have to hide???

ok...obviously, if robocalls didn't works to some extent, countless politicians and organizations wouldn't spend millions of dollars to place them.  Furthermore, (as people have noted further down) these were not your typical robocalls... Unless that is, you're a member of the shady republican hit teams that pull this kinds of shit all the time to (for instance) drive down black turnout in baton rouge by suggesting that don cazayoux is a racist or mislead listeners into thinking the call is from the diocese and instructing voters not to support mary landrieu because she's a lesbian and she's been excommunicated.  (both REAL examples used by Louisiana republicans).

Do you see the things your tacitly supporting??

With all due respect to the rules, I think it is a legitimate question (regardless of how totally blown out of proportion the WVWV thing was).

Why don't you take your character assassination and conspiracy theories back to the big orange?  And not just you, but everyone else commenting here who is working to tear down a great organization that has done more for progressive politics in one day than any of you have done in a lifetime.

WVWV has registered thousands of new Democratic voters across the country, helping build electoral support for Democrats across the country.  It has found that one of the most effective times to register people is after they miss a primary deadline, because then they have on their mind that should register for the GE.  It reaches out with robocalls in people's personal names because that's been shown to be effective as well.  It it has supporters of both Obama and Clinton on its board.  It's generated a few dozen complaints across the country, because any group that makes hundreds of thousands of robocalls will automatically generate some complaints.

They made some honest mistakes in NC that they have taken care of.  I suggest you go over to Open Left, where several of the front pagers -- all Obama supporters -- have been involved with or supportive of WVWV for years, and they are absolutely livid to see an important progressive organization torn into by a bunch of conspiracy-theorists.

If Jerome has worked for this  important organization, he has my thanks and congratulations.

...WVWV isn't some organization that's in the bag for Hillary.  But I do think there are legitimate questions about Jerome's connections to WVWV and the way he handled the diary that was on the rec list a week ago and then was arbitrarily removed.

of making sows ears out of silk purses.  Exactly what was the wrong doing that WVWV did and how did it benefit any certain candidate?  Haven't you Obama supporters damaged your candidate enough with all this inflated bullshit day after day after day after day?  People sign onto the blogs who have real lives and they read this shit and then guess what?  They don't vote for your candidate because you are all so cracked anymore you border on wacko, and you discredit who you support!