Hahn Campaign Caught Ripping Off Villaraigosa's

(This is sort of inside baseball, but it is sort of funny!)

The Hahn Campaign has been caught ripping off a graphic exclusively designed for the Villaraigosa Campaign's website (http://www.antonio2005.com) and putting it on their own website (http://www.jimhahn.org/). Basically what happened is that Antonio's campaign commisioned a graphic designed to help people find out where the polling place is located for the Mayoral Run-off Election. The Hahn campaign liked it so much they decided to use the exact same graphic on their website!

The symbolism is striking. The main complaint that Los Angeles voters have of Jim Hahn is that he is uninspiring and doesn't seem to have any new ideas for tackling the city's numerous challenges. The theft of the graphic is a metaphor which says that the Hahn campaign is so out of ideas that they are even copying graphics from the Villaraigosa campaign.

This story has already been picked up by Jerome at mydd.com and MayorSam.

Gee, I guess imitation is the most sincere form of flattery after all!