From Saint Petersblog 2.0:
This is one of those seemingly small mistakes that the right-wing will jump all over, doing more damage to Klein than whatever impact the original mailer attempted to inflict upon West. From the Palm Beach Post:
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Klein’s campaign sent out a mailer last week detailing Republican challenger Allen West’s 2005 tax lien and court orders to pay delinquent credit card bills.The mailer includes a reproduction of the $11,081 tax lien filed against West in Marion County, Indiana and paid off four months later. The document, pulled from public records, includes a column titled “Identifying Number” that shows West’s nine-digit Social Security number.
Continue reading here.Well... how would Peter Schorsch, editor, feel if his Social Security number was sent out over the Internet? Not so "small mistake" then, eh? Why would only a "right-wing" person be upset about that?