Hard on the heels of the alleged sexual harassment scandals surrounding Carl DeMaio, yet another revelation has come to light about the DeMaio campaign, reports Talkingpointsmemo.com. Now, a set of internal emails obtained by The Washington Examiner have revealed how campaign manager, Tommy Knepper, offered advice on how to spot trackers – opposition staffers who show up at events hoping to record the candidate saying something controversial – at events.
Here is the advice that Knepper gave his staff on identifying trackers as revealed by The Examiner Friday. Red flag means the person may be a tracker:
“1. Young-red flag
2. black-red flag
3. young at a saturday morning event-HUGE red flag
4. Very curious and want to talk to staff a a lot-red flag”
DeMaio responded, “Drop black from the criteria. Other 3 ok.”
According to The Examiner report another email DeMaio sent to top staff April 7 indicates concern about interlopers invading the campaign office.
“So today we had another attempt to send a SPY into our office,” DeMaio wrote. “Tommy and Chase handled it. Each dept [sic] staff head needs to be on the lookout for spies. Keep our office conversations to ‘printable’ content – and keep strategy discussions private.”
Other emails circulated photos of suspected trackers.
Nice. Now we can add racial and age profiling to the long list of dirty deeds being perpetrated by Carl and his minions.
Is Nicol Murray Ramirez going to come out and defend this too? Her work as an activist protecting the rights and dignity of minorities is going down the toilet pretty quickly as she aligns herself with right-wing political hacks like DeMaio.
What he’s really saying is: “Gee. I don’t want to appear racist, so let’s take “blacks” off the list because, after all, what have I said or done to inspire the black constituency that would bring them out to one of my rallies? The answer is nothing.