omgosh what were they thinking?????

[binny]

The Idaho Democratic Party put out a flier with the republican candidate AND his Wifes SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS !!!

I understand what the flier is about and I agree that the funding issue should be public information but to include the social security numbers? That is just wrong!


I dont care who you are or what youve done, that information should never be made public especially to thousands of people!

Wow.

Mailer includes Salis' Social Security numbers

Democrats stand behind campaign flier

By Betsy Z. Russell
Staff writer
October 29, 2008
BOISE – The Idaho Democratic Party is defending a campaign flier it mailed throughout Idaho’s 1st Congressional District that clearly shows the Social Security numbers of Rep. Bill Sali and his wife.
“The stunt that the Democrats have pulled on Bill and Terry Sali is the most despicable thing I’ve ever seen,” said Wayne Hoffman, Sali’s campaign spokesman.
The flier faults Sali for past financial problems, including state and federal tax liens filed against him in 1988, and his continuing campaign debt. The flier shows parts of two tax liens; on one, both Social Security numbers are visible.
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“He’s a public figure, it’s a public document,” said Jim Hansen, executive director of the Idaho Democratic Party. “If he was going to be upset, he probably should have paid off his bills and his taxes.”
Hoffman said Sali’s wife, Terry, is “very, very upset” over the mailing.
“She’s a private person,” he said. “There were tax liens from 20 years ago. It’s bills that were paid off. … And yet the state Democrats think that it’s somehow OK to take two people’s personal financial information, including Social Security numbers, and splash it all over people’s mailboxes.”
Said Hansen: “Frankly, I didn’t think about it. We just published a piece of public information. Anybody can go and get a public document.”
The flier also criticizes Sali for filing a late and inaccurate federal campaign finance report in July.
Hansen said the same information is being used in a television commercial that the Idaho Democratic Party has just begun airing against Sali, a freshman Republican.
“We’ve got an economy that’s in crisis and this guy wants to make decisions about our economic well-being,” he said. “I think this is a nice piece that cuts through a whole lot of smoke and mirrors about Bill Sali.”
Sali said at a recent public forum that his past financial problems stemmed from a series of car accidents.
“I was involved in four different auto accidents in the space of about eight years,” he said, resulting in “huge medical bills that the insurance companies wouldn’t pay.” As a result, medical liens were filed against his property, he said. “It’s not a matter of me mismanaging my personal finances. I’ve got ‘A’ credit today.”
Ada County records show a series of medical liens filed against Sali, and then released, from 1998 to 2003.
One lien was issued by the state for unpaid state income taxes of $801, filed in 1988 and released in 1991; another, from the Internal Revenue Service for the 1986 tax year, was released in 1995, for $5,618.
“They’re from right after law school, when he had a new law practice and had a very young family and was struggling to make ends meet,” Hoffman said. “But he kept his obligations, and he paid the debts.”
Hoffman called the flier “outrageous.”
“Bill and Terry Sali are not wealthy people, they have never pretended to be wealthy people,” he said. “They, like other Idahoans, have struggled to pay bills but they have paid those bills. It is offensive to take particularly Mrs. Sali’s personal financial information, including her Social Security number, and splash that all over the state.”
He added, “I think the party bears a certain responsibility if Mr. or Mrs. Sali’s identities are stolen following this.”

 

[a1tinkfans]

The Idaho Democratic Party put out a flier with the republican candidate AND his Wifes SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS !!!

I understand what the flier is about and I agree that the funding issue should be public information but to include the social security numbers? That is just wrong!


I dont care who you are or what youve done, that information should never be made public especially to thousands of people!

Wow.

Another SAD COMMENTARY on POLITICAL ATTACKS, it seems that the country is seriously spiraling downward. Bad enough to do it, but twice as bad when they say they're proud of it!


Doesn't it seem crazy that we cannot get the LA TIMES to release a "taped party" yet we can PRINT SS #'
ONLY IN AMERICA!



DEMOCRATS FOR MCCAIN

 

[teacups]

When I first moved to Idaho my drivers lic # WAS my ss#!!!!
Nobody thought twice of it. I sure did!!!!

 

[nataliesdaddy]

yeah thats pretty skeezy of them

 

[shellybaxter]

I'm a democrate and this is wrong.

 

[lindalinda]

This should be illegal. Is it? If it is they should be prosecuted. Horrible.

 

[LotsOfQuestions]

That is horrible and should never have been permitted to be published.

 

[okeydokey]

What a ridiculous thing to do.

 

[binny]

When I first moved to Idaho my drivers lic # WAS my ss#!!!!
Nobody thought twice of it. I sure did!!!!

I remember that too but you could opt out of that, at least when I got my DL you could. they gave you a "dummy number" if you didnt want you SS on there. Used to be common to put it on checks too back in the day according to my mum.
Identity theft has become such a huge problem now though you wouldnt see anyone doing that anymore.



I just dont understand why anyone would think that this is ok? They just act liked "oh well" didnt anyone in the office say "hey maybe we should black those numbers out. That isnt relevant to this piece"

 

[teacups]

I remember that too but you could opt out of that, at least when I got my DL you could. they gave you a "dummy number" if you didnt want you SS on there. Used to be common to put it on checks too back in the day according to my mum.
Identity theft has become such a huge problem now though you wouldnt see anyone doing that anymore.



I just dont understand why anyone would think that this is ok? They just act liked "oh well" didnt anyone in the office say "hey maybe we should black those numbers out. That isnt relevant to this piece"

My hubby just had to deal with ID theft. It's is not fun.