NRCC Press Aide Tweets Home Addresses Of Virginia Dem's Staffers

[savalez]

Source: HuffPo

A press assistant for the National Republican Congressional Campaign tweeted the home addresses of campaign staffers for Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) Tuesday night.

Andy Sere, a press hand for the NRCC who handles southern congressional races, made the highly unorthodox move after Perriello's staff called the chief of staff of his opponent, state senator Robert Hurt, a "carpetbagger". Sere responded with six separate tweets noting each staffer that Perriello himself employed from out of the district and calling on the Virginia Democrat to fire those aides or risk being labeled a hypocrite.

The Republican listed the exact home addresses of those six Democratic staffers, relying on what another NRCC hand said were July quarterly reports. (The tweets are re-posted below with the addresses scrubbed out).

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/07/nrcc-press-aide-tweets-staffers-home-addresses_n_708379.html

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Dirty damn republican tricks. All the time. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of them.

[Pirate Smile]

1. Why are they always aiming their nasty at Tom Perriello? Scumbags.

[savalez]

2. Here's Andy Sere's photo

Anybody have his address? Let's see how he likes it.

[depakid]

3. Head on over to 4chan

:evilgrin:

[Better Today]

4. Well it's stinky, but it's not like it's difficult to get that data from

FEC records. Payroll payments with names and addresses are part of the required financial reports, so unless they are new hires, they're part of the regular reporting functions. I don't see how Tweets is going to put them in any greater risk than they already were.

[savalez]

5. To a nut job, tweeting someone's home address may be akin to

telling them to pay them a visit. If you know what I mean.

[Better Today]

6. Oh, please, get over it. If any nut job wanted that info, they could get it.

I'm tired of fear mongering. If he had tweeted private information that wasn't attainable on public FEC records, then I'd agree with you, but not under the actual circumstances. It's a tweet for chrissake.

[savalez]

8. Tea party activists published the home address of Perriello's brother and someone cut his gas line.

I would like to "get over it" but there is history here. I see that you wish to make this into a normal everyday incident but others see it for what it can be in this particular instance. Of course all addresses, including yours, can be found and posted, but that's not the point of the article. In this case, in that district, this may have the potential to become something more than just a simple tweet. Maybe it was innocent, or perhaps it was a "remember what happened the last time an address was posted" kind of thing. I hope you're right but I would not be happy about it if I were one of the six addressees. Would you after reading the link below?

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news-local/2010/mar/24/damage_at_home_of_perriello_brother_under_investig-ar-75186/

[Better Today]

9. There was a hellofa lot more involved than just tweets, #1.

#2, is there any evidence that the gas line being cut, the letters, and the emails weren't from the very people who sent the tweet in the first place? Is there any evidence that it incited someone else? I don't read anything like that.

Public data is public data, as I said, if it wasn't already public data, I'd have a problem, but not as it stands now, and no, I would not be bothered if under the exact same circumstances, my address was tweeted. As a person whose personal data isn't already public, I would.

[savalez]

10. Everybodies address is public. Not the point. The act of posting it may have implications in this

case, and perhaps only in this case. If you don't see that then we must agree to disagree.

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