The Farm Team, a Democratic women's group which began at Mary Sue Terry's farm and whose purpose is to "recruit, develop and elect women to office," is not pleased with the Moran campaign. Here's the email from Farm Team co-founder Susan Platt.Subject: VIOLATION OF AGREED TERMS OF DEBATE RECORDINGSJosh Chernila has more on this over at Daily Dogwood. Josh also discusses the post-PPP release today by the Moran campaign of internal polling data, writing: "Panic, disorder, mayhem - the Moran campaign's work here is almost done." Definitely not a good day for the Moran campaign.
Good Afternoon –
It has come to my attention that the Moran for Governor Campaign is showing a commercial on YouTube that clearly is a recording from The Farm Team Debate, April 19, in Williamsburg. As a reminder, below is a copy from the final debate format memo.
From Final Debate Memo Dated April 17, 2009 as agreed to by all candidates:
Debate Recording –
If you are planning on recording this debate FOR YOUR OWN INTERNAL USE, please contact Page Melton at the above email for credentials to be held with the media. As agreed, there will be a ‘NO USE’ clause in this debate that says no campaign may use ANY of the audio or video footage from the debates in television or radio commercials or on-line mediums (such as YouTube, etc).
The Moran campaign is in violation of the above agreement, and in fairness to the other two campaigns, we request you remove that portion of the referenced video.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Susan Platt
UPDATE: According to Ryan Nobles, "[the Moran] campaign will re-post web ad, without video from Farm Team debate."
