Mark - Say it ain't so.....

To:
Mark Wilson
C/O
Cantwell 2006

I have just been reading David Postman’s post entitled “Green candidate Dixon says Cantwell campaign wanted him out of race” dated yesterday (9/25/06) and I have to say that a very sour taste is developing in my mouth. At first glance at the title you might say “Duh!”; but then you read the following that Postman attributes to Joshua Frank at New World Trust,

”As Dixon tells it, "Mark [Wilson] called and basically told me that a lot of people have a lot of money within the Cantwell campaign, and he said that they could put on a fundraiser for Central House that would 'blow my mind.' He called a week later and basically told me the same thing. I didn't bite, ending this war is too important."
When asked if exiting the race would have been contingent on there being a fundraiser for his organization, Dixon answered, "It wasn't said directly, but it was certainly implied."
Dixon also said that Mark Wilson was not the only Cantwell staffer to call his campaign headquarters with the hope of convincing him to drop out, but Dixon declined to elaborate. The Cantwell campaign declined to comment on Dixon's allegations.”

Mark, please tell me it isn’t so. Please tell me that you would not be involved in any effort to buy off the competition! Tell me this isn’t the type of outreach Senator Cantwell had in mind when she hired you to work on her campaign. Or, wait! Maybe you should say that you did do this and that you were acting alone as a sort of “rogue operative” and that Senator Cantwell had no knowledge of this action! That would be much better. Or not! I don’t see, if there is any truth to this allegation, how this makes anyone at Camp Cantwell look good. I mean, after all, didn’t Hong Tran also say she was offered a buy out?

With the race tightening up again, this kind of thing just can’t be helpful in shoring up support from the left. Postman says that he has not been able to reach you for comment. I would suggest that, with less than 2 months to go before the general election, you had better do something to either repute or defend this claim or risk the potential of being labeled “The leak that sank the ship.”

Peace,
Chad (The Left) Shue