This is just wrong!

[fabijo]

I went to check out the Washington GOP website by guessing the address. This is what I picked first:

http://www.wagop.org - Look at the Title of the page in the browser!!!

I found the official page:
http://www.wsrp.org/

It looks exactly the same!

What a ploy by Huckabee. Did Huck's Army do this?

[libertythor]

That IS extremely UNETHICAL!

[Electrostatic]

WOW, Now THAT is f'd up!

I think Huck could be getting some heat over that.

[morerocklesstalk]

WOW, Now THAT is f'd up!

I think Huck could be getting some heat over that.

Maybe e-mail it to local new stations.

[fabijo]

This is the guilty owner of the domain:


Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175491709
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:Info@DomainsForLease.Biz

[Ex Post Facto]

Screenshot and post it here.

[Shabow]

I live very near that guy.....

:-(

Maybe ill show up to his home....


muwahahaha

[Electrostatic]

He Doesn't even LIVE in Washington?
So, an OUT OF STATE HUCKABEE SUPPORTER is impersonating the GOP of Wa
WOW

[fabijo]

Gary Conner is running for House of Representatives in Indiana. His site says he's a Mike Huckabee Ranger:

http://indyusa.com/GaryConnerForIndianaStateRepresentative.htm

[kyleAF]

You know, I have no idea how to take a screenshot?

Anyone?

[TXcarlosTX]

hey man there just playing the game.... you guys need to watch "the wire" on hbo. we need to learn these dirty tricks

[ladyliberty]

i still dont get it - does it steal campign contributions or what?

[Electrostatic]

UPDATE!

Gary Conner was a GOP congressional candidate in 2006.

http://indyrepublican.org/GaryConnerForIndianaHouseOfReps-VolunteerToDoSomething.htm

[fabijo]

Screenshot:


http://fabsadventures.com/images/HuckFake.jpg

[Pepsi]

http://img03.picoodle.com/img/img03/4/2/9/t_voteforhuckm_4a72262.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/2/9/f_voteforhuckm_4a72262.jpg&srv=img03)

[wgadget]

I went to check out the Washington GOP website by guessing the address. This is what I picked first:

http://www.wagop.org - Look at the Title of the page in the browser!!!

I found the official page:
http://www.wsrp.org/

It looks exactly the same!

What a ploy by Huckabee. Did Huck's Army do this?

The official page when I opened it didn't look the same as the first link.

Unless they've changed it already.

[dawnbt]

Shut up! Oh no they didn't!

[acroso]

What is that screenshot of?

[Electrostatic]

I just left a voice mail with Maureen Moore.

[affa]

What is that screenshot of?

Look at the title of the page (the grey bar at the top)

[stevedasbach]

The "unofficial" page still has the disclaimer at the bottom claiming it is paid for by The Washington Republican Party. The owner needs to report this to the Washington Republican Party as an inkind donation, which they have report to the FEC.

If he does, and they go along with it, they are complicit with the "endorsement". If he doesn't, he is in violation of FEC regulations.

[Stardreamer]

http://stardreamers.com/ttt.gif

Tennis anyone? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. RPR

[fabijo]

What is that screenshot of?

It's a screenshot of the exact replica of the official Washington State Republican party, except the title says to go to MikeHuckabee.com. Here's a screenshot of the official page:


http://fabsadventures.com/images/WashingtonGOPReal.jpg

[Electrostatic]

The "unofficial" page still has the disclaimer at the bottom claiming it is paid for by The Washington Republican Party. The owner needs to report this to the Washington Republican Party as an inkind donation, which they have report to the FEC.

If he does, and they go along with it, they are complicit with the "endorsement". If he doesn't, he is in violation of FEC regulations.

He did a frame grab of their site.

[Agent CSL]

Take screenshots, save the page and save the WHOIS info then report it. This guy can be charged for fraud and phishing!

[blakjak]

On the donate page - he could possibly collect credit card information.

[Electrostatic]

On the donate page - he could possibly collect credit card information.

No, he isn't that talented. It's a frame of wrsp.org with the title telling people to vote huckabee

[Agent CSL]

No, he isn't that talented. It's a frame of wrsp.org with the title telling people to vote huckabee
Ah I just noticed. No .php functions so it looks clean. Meh, just a prankster.

[IPSecure]

I went to check out the Washington GOP website by guessing the address. This is what I picked first:

http://www.wagop.org - Look at the Title of the page in the browser!!!

I found the official page:
http://www.wsrp.org/

It looks exactly the same!

What a ploy by Huckabee. Did Huck's Army do this?


Nothing listed in google cache, nor on the wayback machine, but...
google wagop.org, and the results show differently...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wagop.org&btnG=Google+Search

MSNBC picked this up, as well as many others...

[fabijo]

Take screenshots, save the page and save the WHOIS info then report it. This guy can be charged for fraud and phishing!

Here's the whois info in case it disappears:



Domain ID:D150833252-LROR
Domain Name:WAGOP.ORG
Created On:31-Jan-2008 21:46:37 UTC
Last Updated On:31-Jan-2008 21:46:56 UTC
Expiration Date:31-Jan-2009 21:46:37 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Wild West Domains, Inc. (R120-LROR)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:DABO-02412549
Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175491709
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:Info@DomainsForLease.Biz
Admin ID:DABO-22412549
Admin Name:Gary Conner
Admin Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Admin Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Indianapolis
Admin State/Province:Indiana
Admin Postal Code:46226
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.3175491709
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:Info@DomainsForLease.Biz
Tech ID:DABO-12412549
Tech Name:Gary Conner
Tech Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Tech Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Indianapolis
Tech State/Province:Indiana
Tech Postal Code:46226
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.3175491709
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:Info@DomainsForLease.Biz
Name Server:NS24.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server:NS23.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:
Name Server:

[Electrostatic]

Ah I just noticed. No .php functions so it looks clean. Meh, just a prankster.

No, it's not "just a prankster" He is a two time GOP Congressional candidate who is on a city council in Indiana.

[ike]

Interesting.

Google:
"ALSO VISIT www.mikehuckabee.com"

2 results
second result:
http://www.hamiltoncountygop.org/
Hamilton County Indiana

Google cache states:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:IKAe91aTEwUJ:www.hamiltoncountygop. org/+%22ALSO+VISIT+www.mikehuckabee.com%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a

These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: also visit www mikehuckabee com

One county north of Indianapolis.

Google maps has a nice photo of his house.

[fabijo]

No, he isn't that talented. It's a frame of wrsp.org with the title telling people to vote huckabee

True. Here's his simple code:


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title>~ ALSO VISIT ~ www.MikeHuckabee.com ~ Republican Candidate For President </title>
<META name="description" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP"><META name="keywords" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.wsrp.org" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

<!-- pageok -->
<!-- 05 -->
<!-- 7.0-->
</html>

[fabijo]

Google maps has a nice photo of his house.

smart b*mb, anyone?

[pcosmar]

I just got some good screen shots and will post soon.

[ike]

Whois for Indyrepublican.org has a lot more info, including his email address:

Domain Name:INDYREPUBLICAN.ORG
Created On:04-Aug-2006 00:22:41 UTC
Last Updated On:21-Jul-2007 21:09:26 UTC
Expiration Date:04-Aug-2008 00:22:41 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Wild West Domains, Inc. (R120-LROR)
Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Organization:Citizens For A Stronger Indiana
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175474679
Registrant Email:GaryConner@Ameritech.net

[fabijo]

Whois for Indyrepublican.org has a lot more info, including his email address:


Cool. :D

[ike]

Just report the website as abuse and get his hosting package suspended:

dig wagop.org

;; ANSWER SECTION:
wagop.org. 33m28s IN A 64.202.189.170

whois -h whois.arin.net:

OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID: GODAD
Address: 14455 N Hayden Road
Address: Suite 226
City: Scottsdale
StateProv: AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country: US
NetRange: 64.202.160.0 - 64.202.191.255

connerforcouncil.com. 57m39s IN A 64.202.189.170


It's likely the same hosting package, and will likely shut down at least one of his other websites along with it.

[Xyrus2]

Anyone want to run against this prick? This would be a good shovel full of dirt to use in a campaign. :)

~X~

[taotree]

Just report the website as abuse and get his hosting package suspended:
OrgName: GoDaddy.com, Inc.


Right, I don't think there would be any question that he is in violation of copyrights and probably fraud.

[Electrostatic]

How Dumb Do You Have To Be To Phish In Seattle????

[pcosmar]

I put these together side by side.
I missed it at first, till I moused over the address.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2253887734_b66a77d5b8.jpg
Larger image here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcosmar/2253887734/sizes/o/

[RlxdN10sity]

You guys are awesome.

[RSLudlum]

Both disclaimers at the bottom of the pages are even the same? how is this legal?


WAGOP disclaimer:

Paid for and authorized by The Washington Republican Party
16400 Southcenter Parkway, Suite 200 | Seattle, WA 98188
Not Authorized by any Candidate or candidate committee
© 2008 Washington Republican Party

WSRP disclaimer

Paid for and authorized by The Washington Republican Party
16400 Southcenter Parkway, Suite 200 | Seattle, WA 98188
Not Authorized by any Candidate or candidate committee
© 2008 Washington Republican Party

[pcosmar]

Both disclaimers at the bottom of the pages are even the same? how is this legal?


WAGOP disclaimer:

Paid for and authorized by The Washington Republican Party
16400 Southcenter Parkway, Suite 200 | Seattle, WA 98188
Not Authorized by any Candidate or candidate committee
© 2008 Washington Republican Party

WSRP disclaimer

Paid for and authorized by The Washington Republican Party
16400 Southcenter Parkway, Suite 200 | Seattle, WA 98188
Not Authorized by any Candidate or candidate committee
© 2008 Washington Republican Party

I am not a lawyer, and don't know what the Law says.
I know it ain't right.

Never had much luck with lyres/Lawyers.

[rmholla]

The graphics (at least) are probably copyright protected. Someone should seriously check into this. And let's find someone to challenge him in his home district, this would be an easy win for a Ron Paul supporter. Remember, we must start grabbing power at every level, Ron Paul cannot do this alone.

-

[All Seeing Eye]

Ah I just noticed. No .php functions so it looks clean. Meh, just a prankster.

Then how did I get this...

http://www.starttherevolution.org/Donated!.jpg

Seems a little odd that I can do that using the fake site, no?

[virginiakid]

Seriously, you ought to contact HQ and the media and anyone else that might help, file with the elections commission as well.

[MrZach]

Gary Conner is running for House of Representatives in Indiana. His site says he's a Mike Huckabee Ranger:

http://indyusa.com/GaryConnerForIndianaStateRepresentative.htm

Lets find out who he's running against and send this info to them.

[nodope0695]

Definately a SPOOF site. Very, very slimey. An a violation of Copy Rights to be sure.

[MrZach]

guys, guys... all this is is a REDIRECT... He loads the REAL site in a frame. Pretty simple HTML...

<head>
<title>~ ALSO VISIT ~ www.MikeHuckabee.com ~ Republican Candidate For President </title>
<META name="description" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP"><META name="keywords" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.wsrp.org" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

[LibertasPraesidium]

whats up with the 12.7 % that is left in WA and one site is already (CNN) claiming that MCcain won the state. thats retarded. whats the actual numbers for WA because this is happening again. Look at louisiana, Montana, Minnesota, now washington, anywhere RP has significant chances of taking a win or a good 2nd places has been bombarded with problems. Only pointed out by RP supporters, we need the media to actually pay attention. The local affiliates for Fox and other MSM stations sometimes don't have much loyalty to there bigger counterparts. (plus they produce local news.

The BOE is who you should be contacting if you do contact anyone. As far as the rest its all about information dissemination.

[MrZach]

I emailed the Indiana District 95 Representative and the Washington GOP about this.

Hopefully something can be done about it!

[MrZach]

Here's the email I sent to the WA GOP:

TO: comments@wsrp.org
CC: patrickbell@wsrp.org

SUBJECT: Your website is being SPOOFED

Just wanted to let you know that someone created a fake Washington GOP website under the address: wagop.org

Upon visiting that site, users will see the real wsrp.org website, but the title of the webpage reads:

~ ALSO VISIT ~ www.MikeHuckabee.com ~ Republican Candidate For President

This is what tipped me off that this was not the REAL Washington GOP website.

I did a WhoIs Domain Name info search to find the culprit's name and information. Here is what it turned up:
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=wagop.org

Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175491709

Further investigation shows that he is a GOP candidate for Indiana's House of Representatives in District 95:
http://indyusa.com/GaryConnerForIndianaStateRepresentative.htm

There, he makes the claim, "I am a Huckabee Ranger" whatever this means... Either way, I do not think this kind of unethical activity represents the GOP very well. I hope you are able to do something about this.

[MrZach]

Here is the email I sent to Mae Dickenson (IN state representative, Dist. 95)

I am a bit puzzled. I stumbled upon a campaign website for Gary Conner who appears to be running for your seat as the District 95 State Representative of Indiana.
http://indyusa.com/GaryConnerForIndianaStateRepresentative.htm

However, I did not see him listed as one of the candidates on the list provided by the Indiana elections website.

The reason I stumbled upon Mr. Conner's name is because I was investigating a SPOOF website for the Washington GOP, of all things. Mr. Conner is listed as the owner and administrator of www.wagop.org. This is NOT the real Washington GOP website, but if one were to visit this site, it would display the information from the REAL website (www.wsrp.org) making it APPEAR to be the real site. Not only is this fraudulent, upon visiting the website, the title of the website that appears in your browser reads:

"~ ALSO VISIT ~ www.MikeHuckabee.com ~ Republican Candidate For President"

This is pretty bad stuff. Here is the information provided by a WhoIs Domain Name search on www.wagop.org:

Registrant Name:Gary Conner
Registrant Organization:GOPDomains.Com
Registrant Street1:7102 Mardyke Lane
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Indianapolis
Registrant State/Province:Indiana
Registrant Postal Code:46226
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.3175491709

I am guessing you represent this gentleman who seems to be carrying on this unscrupulous activity. Perhaps something needs to be said to Mr. Conner about modifying his extremely low level ethics.

[LEK]

I HATE when people play dirty yet claim to be Christian - and I'm a Christian!!!

[JS4Pat]

What am I missing???

[Dary]

What am I missing???

Everything:)

[ladyliberty]

Maybe we should call this guy and leave a message to let him know we are on to his game?

[JS4Pat]

Everything:)

Nice... :)

[JS4Pat]

Maybe we should call this guy and leave a message to let him know we are on to his game?

What is the problem?

The website has two domain names?

[Sandra]

Same thing was done with the "official" Louisiana GOP website. It is owned by a Charles Davis. It didn't even have the information required by the RNC until the day of the La Primary.

[nc4rp]

What is the problem?

The website has two domain names?

read the title in the title bar of the fake site. it says 'also visit huckabee.com'

[Aphelion27]

The Page sourse


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<title>~ ALSO VISIT ~ www.MikeHuckabee.com ~ Republican Candidate For President </title>
<META name="description" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP"><META name="keywords" content="Washington Republican Party Washington State GOP">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://www.wsrp.org" frameborder="0" />
<frame frameborder="0" noresize />
</frameset>

<!-- pageok -->
<!-- 07 -->
<!-- 7.0-->
</html>

He is just using frames to plase the wsrp.org information in a large frame on the page.

Now, the potential exists to do a "man in the middle" attack to get credit card numbers and such from the donation link.

Very very very wrong and the Washington GOP needs to know about this ASAP and send out a press release that this location is not legitimate...

Keith

[justatrey]

What bothers me almost as much is the title of the article on BOTH sites:

"Gov. Huckabee finishes a strong second"

[slamhead]

Remember it was Huckabee that did the fake push poll calls to washington.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWjRJr9VcM

[j3utton]

This is disgusting.... hope this guy burns in hell.

Also annoys me a little bit. Its not hard to protect yourself or your website from this type of thing happening against you. The web-developer for the real Washington gop site should have been smarter.

[vericgar]

I just send an e-mail to godaddy about it. Godaddy is hosting the site, and this is definitely against their terms of service. His whole account will probably be shut down.

[StarKissed]

Can any of you guys write articles about this fraud, and then Digg it?

I'd like to write it myself, but it wouldn't turn out good enough.

The word needs to get out & then hopefully someone will pick it up in the media.

Thanks

[fufurios]

Maybe a normal sub-domain?

[ClockwiseSpark]

This angers the hell out of me.

Please send him your love.

GaryConner@Ameritech.net

[kutibah]

Well the title's been changed....