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Many of Norm Coleman’s online donors were angered last month to learn that the former senator’s campaign Web site had leaked a database with their credit card data. While a U.S. Secret Service investigation is pending, here’s a footnote to the affair: A second leaked database contained dozens of comments from fans of Coleman’s DFL rival, Al Franken.

MoveOn’s latest iteration of the McCain = Bush equation that they intend to pound for the duration of the campaign features more near-identical soundbites and the theme from the Patty Duke Show. Released on Memorial Day, it will air in select cable markets. 

MoveOn.org: The Bush-McCain Challenge (:30)

MoveOn’s celebrity jury has picked a winner in the organization’s public contest to create a 30-second ad for Barack Obama, and it’s a testimonial from an Air Force and self-proclaimed Republican named John Weiler. According to MSNBC’s First Read, MoveOn will drop $200k on airing the spot via cable and broadcast channels in Ohio, Wisconsin, [...]

Betraying the Constitution: The 72 senators who voted to condemn MoveOn.org’s “General Betrayus” ad betray the Constitution’s protection of free speech, writes former Minnesota Monthly and Star Tribune magazine editor Leonard Witt in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed piece. The Senate “did abridge our freedom to speak out by sending a message to We the People [...]