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10/22/2004 Archived Entry: "Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco"

Posted by steve @ 01:52 AM EST [Link]

JUST IMAGINE IF SOME NEWSPAPER HAD DONE THIS FOR THE REPUBLICANS: The Guardian has called off its "Operation Clark County" -- a project to get Britains to write people in Clark County and ask them to vote for John Kerry -- after a storm of controversy erupted.

The cancellation of the project came 24 hours after the first of some 14,000 letters from Guardian readers began arriving in Clark County. The missives led to widespread complaints about foreign interference in a US election.

It also prompted a surge of indignant local voters calling the county's Republican party offering to volunteer for Mr Bush.

The paper said it had closed the website where readers collected an address to write to and had abandoned plans to take four "winners" to visit voters in Clark County. Instead, the group would be taken to the "more tranquil" area of Washington.

Albert Scardino, the paper's executive editor for news, simultaneously denied and conceded that an early halt had been called to the project. "It is roaringly, successfully completed. It has been an overwhelming triumph," he said.

Yes, I'm sure it has been.

Read on.