Article on Bret Schunlder campign Photoshop of Howard Dean

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NzAzMTkxJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==



Any crowd will do for Schundler

Friday, June 3, 2005

By LAURA FASBACH
TRENTON BUREAU


Left, a photo of Bret Schundler superimposed over one of Howard Dean taken at a rally for the Democratic presidential hopeful last summer. The photo appeared on Schundler's campaign Web site. Right, the original photo, which was taken in Virginia. Compare the photos.

Laura Reznick weaved in and out of the crowd at a Democratic rally last summer so she could share a photo op with her political hero, Howard Dean.

Little did the South Jersey native know that the photo would reappear a year later - but this time with her cheering on conservative Republican Bret Schundler, who's running for governor in New Jersey.

A case of a young woman's political transformation? Not quite.

Schundler's campaign Web site had been displaying a digitally altered photo of the Democratic rally she attended last year in Falls Church, Va. In the doctored version, Schundler campaign signs replace the Dean signs. A staid Schundler in suit and tie fills the foreground once occupied by a grinning Dean in shirt sleeves. And Reznick discovered she was wearing a "Schundler Reform Governor" cap where her Dean campaign hat was perched.

"I think it's pathetic that he couldn't get a group of his own enthusiastic young people," said Reznick, a 21-year-old junior who grew up in Voorhees and is secretary of American University's College Democrats chapter. "There are plenty of people my age who are, sadly enough, Republican."

[Carla in Ca]

1. Hi, Eric

I just saw the thread in GD and came to see if someone had alerted the NJ forum. Do you believe this guy?
I hope someone local can make a big deal out of this!

[Eric J in MN]

2. The phoniness of Bret Schunlder isn't one photo, but his overall

misuse of the word "REFORM" to try to get Howard Dean's popularity.

Bret Schunlder's "REFORM" is to "REFORM" taxes by lowering them for the rich.

[Kire]

3. Schundler Spokesman: "Obviously, Democrats prefer Doug Forrester."

from the yellow section of PoliticsNJ (06/03/05)

A Dean for President campaign photographer disputes a claim by a web design firm working for Bret Schundler that a photo of Howard Dean doctored to include Schundler was taken by them. The firm's owner had claimed the photo belonged to them.

"It's a photo I took as Dean Campaign staff photographer and I'm waiting for a call back from the lawyers representing Big Fish on how they are going to handle the copyright violation. I own all rights to the image. If they claimed any rights they are seriously off base," John Pettitt told PoliticsNJ.com.

In an e-mail on Wednesday, Schundler's web designer, Tom Frank, told PoliticsNJ.com: "The original photograph is a photograph that Big Fish, as a vendor to Howard Dean's campaign, took at a Dean rally. The second photo image is a photo collage, composed of a well-known image of Bret Schundler superimposed on top of the original crowd shot from the Dean rally."

"When the Schundler campaign was advised by a news organization that a photo image on our website was, in fact, a doctored photo, we ordered our web services vendor to remove it immediately," said Schundler spokesman Bill Pascoe. "We did not ask them to doctor a photo of a Howard Dean rally; we did not authorize them to doctor a photo of a Howard Dean rally; we did not know they had doctored a photo of a Howard Dean rally.

"As anyone who visits the front page of our website can see, Bret Schundler has no difficulty generating crowds of supporters wherever he goes. The amazing thing – and, in fact, the really newsworthy thing – is that Democrats are pushing this “story” as hard as they are. Obviously, Democrats prefer Doug Forrester as the Republican nominee – clearly, they are scared of Bret Schundler," Pascoe said. (06/03/05)

[DawnneOBTS]

4. I don't think so

Remember-he lost to Jim McGreevey, of all people.

[mcscajun]

5. Scared? Of Bret Schundler?

:rofl:

Give me a fuckin' break, already.