Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) was the dirty tricks center for Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign.
The faked AFSCME flier has John Edwards attacking Barack Obama -- interference with two Democratic Party campaigns.
The work of CREEP began when Donald Segretti started illegal attacks ("ratfucking") against the stronger Democratic candidates.
For example, Segretti faked a letter on Democratic candidate Edmund Muskie's letterhead, alleging that Senator "Scoop" Jackson had fathered an illegitimate child.
Segretti pleaded guilty, in 1974, to three counts of distributing illegal campaign literature. He was sentenced to six months in prison and disbarred.
The AFSCME flier follows Segretti's pattern.
AFSCME declares total cost at $34,000, matching production and postage.
AFSCME declares zero cost for candidate research, authorship, layout, image copyright fees, and related overhead.
Origin of the flier remains an open mystery.
Who is mimicing CREEP?
An ad agency or a Clinton boiler room?
Or a new Republican operation, copying CREEP down the line?
Link below.
CREEPwas the most infamous political project of American political campaigns, at least for the Twentieth Century.
CREEP sabotaged primary campaigns for all the top Democrats, explicitly working to assure that McGovern got the nomination.
Eventually the credibility of democracy, itself, was challenged. If elections can be rigged with impunity, it is no longer democracy.
Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee asked "What did the President know, and when did he know it?"
Well, the same goes for creation of this AFSCME flier.
What dishonest operation is out there, subverting the Democratic Party primary system in 2007 ???
Who in a position of power knows about it ???
Does this reach back into the White House -- as with the Watergate burglary -- or does it go to the Clinton campaign or to some Rovian creation with inside-the-Beltway obsessions with controlling elections ???
Watergate scandal.