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DIRTY TRICKS: Democrats: Adler campaign backed Tea Party candidate. Congressman John Adler?s cam?

By Glenn Reynolds

DIRTY TRICKS: Democrats: Adler campaign backed Tea Party candidate.

Congressman John Adler’s campaign and the Camden County Democratic Committee recruited “”NJ Tea Party” candidate Peter DeStefano to confuse conservative voters and hurt Adler’s Republican challenger this fall, Democratic operatives say.

“The goal was to take 5 percent of (Republican Jon) Runyan’s vote,” said a Democrat with direct knowledge of the Adler campaign and CCDC operations.

More here. (Via the estimable Prof. Jacobson.)

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 08, 2010 (boomark / email).