Detroit News: Brooks Patterson States Gary Peters' Campaign is One of the Nastiest, Negative Midterms Races Ever

Posted by L. Brooks Patterson on Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Tell A Lie, Tell It Big, And Tell It Often
Congressman Gary Peters is spending an extraordinary amount of money funding one of the nastiest, most negative campaigns in the midterm elections anywhere in the United States of America.

He has been running an ad over-and-over accusing Rocky Raczkowski of being sued "by his PARTNERS in a business scheme."

Peters knows that is a lie. But as we learned during the Nazi era under the tutelage of the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, "Tell a lie, tell it big, and tell it often, and people will begin to believe it."

So let's take a closer look at Herr Peters' campaign ad.

A concert promoter by the name of David T. Rosen (who is now bankrupt and is facing cocaine possession charges) wanted to put on a concert. So he hires a consultant to advise him what to do; he hires a talent agency to line up the musical acts for the concert; and he hires Rocky Raczkowski's company called Star Tickets Plus to handle ticket sales and distribution.

When the concert goes bust (some of the named acts didn't show up), the promoter loses money and decides to sue all the people he had hired. Rosen sued his consultants, vendors, and suppliers, not PARTNERS.

Let me break it down with a very simple example: If I hire you to mow my yard and our relationship breaks down and we sue each other, you're not all of a sudden my PARTNER, you are a guy that I hired to mow my yard. No more - no less.

Peters, as a lawyer, knows the difference between a vendor who supplies services and a partner. Peters also knows that if he can trump up the charges to make it look like Rocky is being sued by his "PARTNER," then it sounds more sinister. (In fact, one of Peters' paid actors in his ad said exactly that: "If he ripped off his business partners, how can we trust him?")

Tell a lie, tell it big, and tell it often. Herr Peters knows his history.



From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/brooksblog/index.php#ixzz129vZbgEt