False and Fabricated

Linda Stender’s campaign for congress is not resonating with voters in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district. So she sent out a mailer in a pathetic attempt to cash in on the Mark Foley scandal and smear her opponent, Congressman Mike Ferguson. The Linda Stender for Congress mailer was based on a gossip column from 2003. Not only is the gossip “old news”, it’s also “false and fabricated”.

From ABC News:

A Democratic flier slams Rep. Mike Ferguson, R-N.J., for allegedly hitting on a college girl while drunk at a Georgetown bar. Ferguson denies the girl's version of events, which appeared in the Washington Post's gossip column in 2003, and the bar manager who witnessed the whole thing calls her story and the Democratic flier "false and fabricated."

David Nelson tells ABC News that he was advised by the bar owner not to have any comment when reporters called even though Ferguson's staff asked him to tell reporters what had happened. He regrets that decision.

"What she said isn't true," Nelson said after being shown the flier, "and these fliers are wrong. He's a married man, with kids — the story's false and he shouldn't have to go through this, politics aside."