Old FURIOUS nads! by The One True b!X

This week, much is being made (rightfully so) about some oddities in the filings of two candidates under the City’s new publicly-financed campaigns law.

First reported in Theo yesterday, a followup today includes a rather odd accusation from one of the candidates.

In a faxed statement Thursday, Boyles accused the newspaper of religious discrimination against Christian conservatives and Slavic Christians in particular. She did not return two phone calls but said in her statement that she and Golovan “followed the regulations to the best of my knowledge.”

Take a look at the original Theo article to which Boyles refers. I’m hard pressed to find evidence of religious discrimination, unless Boyles believes the term to include mere mention of the religious or conservative characteristics of herself or her supporters.

Whatever her rationale for making such a charge, in terms of how such a bullshit accusation plays out here it reeks of desperation.

Were we dealing with a political professional — be they candidate, elected official, or campaign manager — we’d all be chattering about how it looks for all the world like a smokescreen meant to divert attention.

Either that, or Boyles is of the overly-sensitive type who leaps to the presumption that any mention of someone’s religious conservatism must inherently be meant as an attack.

I, for one, don’t find either possibility particularly comforting.

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