American Association of Political Consultants membership roster
Campaigns & Elections,  Annual, 2004  
Ed Buckham, Senior Partner
3000 K St. NW, Ste. 101
Washington, DC 20007
202-339-8900
ALEXANDER STRATEGY GROUP
Jordan Lieberman
3000 K St. NW, Ste. 101
Washington, DC 20007
202-339-8900
ALEXANDER STRATEGY GROUP
Meredith Miffleton, Associate
3000 K St. NW, Ste. 101
Washington, DC 20007
202-339-8900
ALEXANDER STRATEGY GROUP
Tony Rudy, Senior Partner
3000 K St. NW, Ste. 101
Washington, DC 20007
202-339-8900

A couple weeks ago one of the Publius boys got out of jail.  His name is Tom Druce, a one-time Republican state representative from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

In July 1999, Druce struck and killed a middle-aged veteran on a Harrisburg street with his taxpayer-leased Jeep Cherokee.  Ever concerned about the man in the street, Druce immediately drove the vehicle to a car repair shop just outside Philadelphia, and paid the $3,000 repair bill out of his own pocket. He then turned the Jeep in before the lease was up.

After receiving his new vehicle Druce went on his merry way, presumably without another thought to the vet's crumpled body, until an anonymous tipster sent police investigators a Christmas card months later implicating Druce as the hit-and-run perpetrator.  Telling police he thought he hit a sign, and then claiming to his insurance company that he hit a barrel on the turnpike, Druce weaseled as long as he could until investigators found the Jeep's bumper, still at the repair shop, still crusted with hair, blood, and clothing.

Druce then struck a deal with prosecutors: He'd plead guilty to evidence tampering, insurance fraud and leaving the scene of a fatal accident. In exchange, prosecutors dropped the most serious charge, vehicular homicide.  Sentenced to two to four years in prison, Druce was ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and obey a curfew.  

In March 2001, Druce formed a consulting company, Phoenix Strategy, and began pitching to clients.  For some reason, the Publius boys recruited Druce to run the politicspa.com site as a kind of franchise operation.  Druce operated as the anonymous "editor" Sy Snyder, in much the same way as Jordan Lieberman uses the "Wally Edge" handle.

Druce operated politicspa.com while under house arrest.  The Philadelphia Inquirer requested and reported on details of the court-monitored e-mail correspondence between Druce (as Sy Snyder) and contributors to the site, as well as his visits (granted with the permission of Druce's probation officer) with Lieberman (aka Wally Edge), identified as "the marketing director of PoliticsNJ."

In May 2004, Druce was ordered back to prison.  On March 13, 2006 prisoner EL 1392 was released back into the community.

Brady is probably thinking about right-wing run, anonymous sites like PoliticsPA and PoliticsNJ.

Jordan S. Lieberman, a Republican political consultant, runs the Publius Group, which operates the anonymous websites PoliticsNJ.com, PoliticsPA.com, and PoliticsNH.com.  Lieberman's partner in the Publius operation is a registered New Jersey lobbyist with major health care and insurance industry clients.

Lieberman was recently named publisher of Campaigns & Elections magazine.  It was recently acquired by a company with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry -- Political World Communications -- a New Jersey corporation formed to manage C&E and other assets.

According to C&E's annual roster (2004) of the American Association of Political Consultants, Jordan Lieberman was employed by the Alexander Strategy Group, where he worked with characters like Ed Buckham, the former DeLay aide who founded the company, DeLay aide Tony Rudy, and Christine DeLay, the Congressman's wife.  ASG recently closed its doors because of its ties to disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Brady should clarify who he's talking about.

Now the smear machine has a new venue.

Campaigns & Elections magazine, the oldest political campaign magazine in the country, was recently acquired by a company with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry.  Political World Communications, a New Jersey corporation formed to manage C&E and other assets, named Jordan Lieberman as publisher.

Lieberman, a Republican political consultant, also runs the Publius Group, which operates the anonymous websites PoliticsNJ.com, PoliticsPA.com, and PoliticsNH.com.  Lieberman's partner in the Publius operation is a registered New Jersey lobbyist with major health care and insurance industry clients.

According to C&E's annual roster(2004) of the American Association of Political Consultants, Lieberman was employed by the Alexander Strategy Group, which was recently forced to close its doors because of its ties to disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.