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Scott Bowling is a candidate for city council here in Annapolis. Today, someone posing as Scott sent an email to the city clerk asking that he be removed from the ballot. Worse, the email contained derogatory, offensive and personal attacks on Scott.
Scott has responded with a press release:
Earlier today, a fictitious e-mail was sent to City Clerk, Regina Watkins-Eldridge and copied to various media outlets. I want to thank the City Clerk for contacting me immediately to confirm that this e-mail was a malicious hoax. Her prompt and professional attention has precluded the damage that this e-mail intended to create.
The e-mail was created and sent from a free e-mail server by an impostor posing as me (although spelling my name incorrectly twice.) It attempted to indicate my withdrawal from candidacy for Ward 3 Alderman. The e-mail was replete with punctuation, grammar, spelling, and factual errors. It is shameful that someone would endeavor to waste the Clerk’s time with this nonsense…
I am a Democrat and Scott is a Republican. We disagree on many issues. But we do agree that this kind of conduct has no place in city politics.
The city is facing real challenges and the 2009 municipal elections in Annapolis should be decided on who has the ideas, the experience and the vision to meet them.
One Response to “Dirty Tricks in Annapolis”
Local Politics Get Ugly | Eye On Annapolis on 22 Jul 2009 at 8:20 am #
[...] Legum’s New Line is reporting that Annapolis City Hall received a bogus email purportedly from Republican Aldermanic Candidate for Ward 3, Scott Bowling asking to be removed from the ballot. I am a Democrat and Scott is a Republican. We disagree on many issues. But we do agree that this kind of conduct has no place in city politics. [...]