It’s Official! Craig Foltin Is a Sleaze!

The penultimate in campaign sleaze is to send a staffer off on a dodgy errand and stand by as he falls on his sword. Everyone knows that the campaign was behind the dirty trick, but that they leave the hapless staffer twisting to preserve the candidate’s deniability.

Atop the sleaze scale, Craig Foltin has declined to fire the staffer who attempted to burrow into Betty Sutton’s campaign, leaving no doubt that the campaign was attempting to plant a mole. Scott Bakalar has tried to warn us about Foltin. He runs down the story and plus a parallel story of a city worker under indictment.

If Foltin had an issue this year, it was the abrasiveness and arguable dishonesty of the Sutton/Em-List campaign in the primary. Safe to say that’s pretty much gone. I was going to write something about Foltin sabotaging his future prospects in the Republican Party, but in the Rove era this isn't a gaffe, it's an audition.

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