Busted!
As we noted earlier this morning and others have now noted in greater detail, it’s pretty clear that Frank Luntz bamboozled Howie Kurtz when he said “he’s done no GOP work since 2001.”
But here we have it in pure dollars and cents.
According to the California Secretary of State’s website, the Bill Simon (R) for Governor campaign paid Luntz about $80,000 in 2002 and 2003.
He also got paid over $25,000 in 2003 by Darrell Issa’s recall committee “RESCUE CALIFORNIA”.
In any meaningful sense that was “GOP work.” But perhaps Luntz could have claimed that the recall effort wasn’t technically partisan.
Simon, though? No getting around that one. And this is just one state and one candidate.
I think that guy lied to you, Howie.
[ed.note: A Special Note of thanks to TPM reader WT for some very meritorious and slam-dunk sleuthing.]
