Martha Rainville (running for Bernie Sanders' old House seat in VT) apparently finds it easier to steal from the text of others than to come up with her own copy.
UPDATE: as of 3:50PM, 10/2, Rainville's website is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
NEW UPDATE: Not only did the Rainville campaign replace the main page on its website with an "under construction" banner, they fired someone who was at least partially responsible for the incidents of stolen language. Peter Freyne has a lot more detail at
http://7d.blogs.com/...
Doing simple Google searches I was able to find several items which Martha Rainville, a Republican running to fill the seat left open by Bernie Sanders' senate run, quite directly stole from other politicians. I put them together and stuck them up on my rarely used blog:
http://reasonandbrimstone.blogspot.com/...
A summary:
Rainville stole a part of her energy policy from Hillary Clinton.
She stole part of her press release on access to the federal budget from Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee.
She stole part of her health care statement from Rick O'Donnell, a Colorado Republican.
The blog post above includes links to Rainville's original comments, as well as links to the places from which they were stolen. In one case, not only was the paragraph stolen from the original source, but the grammatical error in the original statement was copied as well. This is not simply someone rendering similar ideas to another politician. This is someone copying and pasting comments from other sources and identifying them as her own.
In case this comes to light and Rainville tries to hide it by changing the web site, I have screen shots of the current version of the site.