Aides Re-edited News Articles on Candidate's Web Site

February 4, 2006

As William F. Weld runs for governor of New York this year, his campaign has put a new spin on the old political rule of having a positive message.

Campaign aides have significantly altered two newspaper articles on his Web site about his bid for governor, removing all negative phrases about him, like "mini-slump" and "dogged by an investigation," and passages about his political problems.

Also removed were references to a federal investigation of Decker College, a Kentucky trade school that Mr. Weld led until he left to run for governor last fall; the college collapsed into bankruptcy weeks later amid allegations of financial aid fraud. And criticism of Mr. Weld by a former New York Republican senator, Alfonse D'Amato, was removed.

The Weld campaign placed the sanitized articles, still under the reporters' bylines, on its Web site, weldfornewyork.org under the heading "news." Nothing told readers about the changes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/nyregion/04weld.html?pagewanted=all


Typical Repug dishonesty. I guess Weld doesn't want any one to know about that sham college he ran?

on the web. One of our reps had his staff rewrite his Wikipedia entry to remove the fact that he ran under a term limits pledge. Is it something in the Massachusetts air?

if you don't like the coverage - don't put the article on the site. Just pathetic.