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Showing Original Post only (View all)COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS [View all]
This story is about a local chapter taking sides in a primary.
Homophobia rears its ugly head in a primary race.
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/12/alex-morse-college-democrats-chats/
COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS
This will sink his campaign, predicted a College Democrat leader hoping to work for Rep. Richard Neal.
THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the schools student newspaper.
College Democrat at Center of Attack on Alex Morse Hoped to Launch Career Through Richard Neal
The letter, sent three weeks before his primary challenge to Rep. Richard Neal, informed Morse that he was no longer welcome at College Democratic events, alleging he used such opportunities to socialize with students and later connect with them on social media in ways that made them feel uncomfortable. Message logs obtained by the Intercept both from leaders of the College Democrats UMass Amherst chapter group as well as chats one of them had with Morse shed new light on how this purported scandal was deployed. As a condition of obtaining the logs, The Intercept agreed to publish some of the chats and paraphrase others.
On Wednesday, following a statement by Morse, the statewide College Democrats chapter clarified that he had in fact only attended a single event during the course of his campaign. It was after that event in October 2019 that the leadership of the UMass Amherst chapter began to talk about leaking a story damaging to Morse, according to those online communications. THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the schools student newspaper.
Timothy Ennis, the chief strategist for the UMass Amherst College Democrats, admitted in the chats that he was a Neal Stan and said he felt conflicted about involving the chapter of the College Democrats in a future attack on Morse. But I need a job, concluded Ennis. Neal will give me an internship. At the time, Ennis was president of the chapter, a post he held from April 2019 to April 2020, when he was term-limited out.
Leaders of the College Democrats group went beyond merely plans to leak. They also explicitly discussed how they could find Morses dating profiles and then lead him into saying something incriminating that would then damage his campaign.
This will sink his campaign, predicted a College Democrat leader hoping to work for Rep. Richard Neal.
THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the schools student newspaper.
College Democrat at Center of Attack on Alex Morse Hoped to Launch Career Through Richard Neal
The letter, sent three weeks before his primary challenge to Rep. Richard Neal, informed Morse that he was no longer welcome at College Democratic events, alleging he used such opportunities to socialize with students and later connect with them on social media in ways that made them feel uncomfortable. Message logs obtained by the Intercept both from leaders of the College Democrats UMass Amherst chapter group as well as chats one of them had with Morse shed new light on how this purported scandal was deployed. As a condition of obtaining the logs, The Intercept agreed to publish some of the chats and paraphrase others.
On Wednesday, following a statement by Morse, the statewide College Democrats chapter clarified that he had in fact only attended a single event during the course of his campaign. It was after that event in October 2019 that the leadership of the UMass Amherst chapter began to talk about leaking a story damaging to Morse, according to those online communications. THE LEADERSHIP OF the University of Massachusetts Amherst College Democrats began discussing an operation they believed could sink the campaign of Alex Morse for Congress as far back as last October, a plan they then helped engineer and which came to fruition on Friday, after the College Democrats sent a letter regarding Morse to the Daily Collegian, the schools student newspaper.
Timothy Ennis, the chief strategist for the UMass Amherst College Democrats, admitted in the chats that he was a Neal Stan and said he felt conflicted about involving the chapter of the College Democrats in a future attack on Morse. But I need a job, concluded Ennis. Neal will give me an internship. At the time, Ennis was president of the chapter, a post he held from April 2019 to April 2020, when he was term-limited out.
Leaders of the College Democrats group went beyond merely plans to leak. They also explicitly discussed how they could find Morses dating profiles and then lead him into saying something incriminating that would then damage his campaign.
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COLLEGE DEMOCRAT CHATS REVEAL YEAR-OLD PLAN TO ENGINEER AND LEAK ALEX MORSE ACCUSATIONS [View all]
Hassin Bin Sober
Aug 2020
OP
THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM FOR PROGRESSIVES -- not just in this case in my district
cloudythescribbler
Aug 2020
#5
Yes. And "Democrat" as in "Democrat Chat" used in the article is right wing terminology.
George II
Aug 2020
#9