"Smarter with Carter" - winning with a positive message?

I'm afraid I haven't heard anything negative from the Lord camp at all...pretty sure the strategy has been to rise above and ignore the competition - and it apppears to have worked.

jsteele wrote:This thread made the Washington City Paper:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/loose-lips/blog/20839300/state-board-of-ed-candidate-caught-in-turkey-neck-flap

One nit: isn't this technically antisocial media?

I cannot confirm nor deny that I sent a link to this thread to the Lord campaign this afternoon.

This thread made the Washington City Paper:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/loose-lips/blog/20839300/state-board-of-ed-candidate-caught-in-turkey-neck-flap

Weiner should have gone with the "a volunteer logged into my account did it." That might have worked at the outset. It was the volunteer's pudendum in the picture.

This is by far my favorite thread of the year.

jeff (or anyone), can you please forward this thread to valarie strauss?

For someone who disclaims any association with Trump - despite speaking in Cleveland - Ashley Carter sure sounds a lot like him.

I'm With Turkey Neck.

Anonymous wrote:It'd be really funny if Jeff could verify that it was posted from the same computer / account or whatever.

All of the carterab posts were posted from the same computer. The one thing I can't determine is when the account was originally registered. We have two systems that share registration information: 1) the front-end system where you register and login; and 2) the forums system. The carterab account had not been used in the forums until today at 14:44, but may have been registered in the front end earlier.

The user logged in to the front end system at 14:43 and immediately went to the forums, posted at 14:53, and then logged out at 14:54. As many users have found out, logging out of the front-end does not log you out of the forums. But, the user didn't even try to logout until after posting.

While it is possible that Carter saved her password in the browser, I am skeptical that the volunteer would login with her credentials. But, I guess it is possible. But, to be clear, this was not the case of an autologin or a previously logged in account.

carterab wrote:Hello - this is Ashley Carter.

I am the candidate and am personally writing to apologize for the comment that was written earlier. This is my account and I occasionally post mom related event information around the city on this forum.
Today's comment was written by a volunteer who was using my laptop to do other campaign related activities while I was not around. I was unaware of what was going on until I returned just now.
The comment was completely inappropriate and should not have been written. I have run a completely positive campaign and will continue to do so for the remaining eight days. Needless to say, the volunteer involved will no longer be helping me.

Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to discuss this matter further.

So your excuse is Shaggy's "Wasn't Me"? okaaay

The site administrator can verify that the account was created on October 4th to post about an event and was not used until today.

I will not comment further on this thread.

Thank you.

carterab wrote:Hello - this is Ashley Carter.

I am the candidate and am personally writing to apologize for the comment that was written earlier. This is my account and I occasionally post mom related event information around the city on this forum.
Today's comment was written by a volunteer who was using my laptop to do other campaign related activities while I was not around. I was unaware of what was going on until I returned just now.
The comment was completely inappropriate and should not have been written. I have run a completely positive campaign and will continue to do so for the remaining eight days. Needless to say, the volunteer involved will no longer be helping me.

Please feel free to contact me directly if you would like to discuss this matter further.

You joined today at 244 and posted the origin post within 15 minutes. A simple "I made a grave error in judgement" would be better than this untruth

It'd be really funny if Jeff could verify that it was posted from the same computer / account or whatever.