Man admits having 100+ LTTEs published under fake names.

He's a Puke. What a surprise.

Excerpt:
"Vallone said the idea occurred to him while he was working on a Republican campaign in 1994. He and other workers would write letters on behalf of a candidate and send them to a ``tree'' of supporters who would sign their names and send them to newspapers. It occurred to him that he could skip a step, make up fictitious identities and send the letters via e-mail."

Full story here:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11491087.htm
Site requires registration but bugmenot probably has one.

if their life depended on it.

The Party of Pathological Liars.

Link:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21869/

Link:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000894729

(snip)
Times reporter Sarah Krupp solved that riddle in a story published Sunday. After a months-long investigation, Krupp exposed Vallone as the man behind an unusually sophisticated letter-writing campaign.

"We have always found a few little things," Hatfield told E&P about previous instances of dishonest letter-writers. "We had found a number of other people who were not nearly as sophisticated as this one."

Vallone went further than anyone, making up letter writers, securing false phone numbers, and even faking accents on the phone to match his made up names, the Times reported.
(snip)
The Times and the Chronicle both verify letters to the editor by phoning the writer and sometimes by other means, but Vallone used free voicemail services to create fictitious identities, the Times reported. Vallone could not be reached for comment by E&P.
(snip)



:evilfrown:

the lazy asses that the majority of them are. Anyway, good work!