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Republicans Smear Democrat With World of Warcraft

Colleen Lachowicz is running for state senate in Waterville, Maine. She also plays a lot of World of Warcraft. According to Maine Republicans, this means that she is unfit for office.

The Maine Republican Party has set up an entire website dedicated to digging up old forum posts made by Lachowicz on Blizzard's online role-playing game.
http://www.colleensworld.com/

"Colleen Lachowicz is a Democrat candidate for Maine State Senate," they write. "In Colleen's online fantasy world, she gets away with crude, vicious and violent comments like the ones below. Maine needs a State Senator that lives in the real world, not in Colleen's fantasy world."

Yes, this website was actually set up by the Maine Republican Party. It features posts by Lachowicz like: "I love poisoning and stabbing! It is fun. I never thought I would love it so much either. I did not start out in WoW with a rogue."

Maine's Republican Party spokesman David Sorensen has also written up what might be the best press release ever:

AUGUSTA – Colleen Lachowicz, the Democratic candidate for State Senate District 25 (Waterville), has been living a time-consuming double life as a member of the World of Warcraft community. World of Warcraft is an online gaming network where people play a fantasy role-playing game in an imaginary world called "Azeroth."

Today, Colleen is playing at level 85–the highest level one can attain. Studies have found that the average World of Warcraft gamer is 28 and spends 22.7 hours per week playing.

Her character in the game is called "Santiaga," an Orc Assassin Rogue, and Lachowicz lives vicariously through her, making comments about World of Warcraft and other topics on the liberal blog, The Daily Kos.

They're also sending out postcards like the one pictured above

This whole situation is hilarious. Like, "I can't believe this is
actually real" hilarious. And sure, some of Lachowicz's forum posts were
a little inappropriate for someone who wants to take public office. But
to use the fact that she plays World of Warcraft as a
political dig against her? To say that she "lives vicariously through" a
fictional character because she plays an online game?

http://kotaku.com/5948987/maine-democrat-is-supposedly-unfit-for-office-because-she-loves-poisoning-and-stabbing-in-world-of-warcraft


Added: Oct-4-2012 
By: Nurb
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Tags: democrat, republican, maine, campaign, warcraft, hilarious,
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