Carl DeMaio: Race Was Exhausting, So What's A Few More Days Of Counting?

Scandal-plagued homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio held a press conference this morning where he declined to declared victory on his 752-vote lead. As about 180,000 provisional, absentee, and mail-in ballots remain to be counted statewide, DeMaio said, "It’s been a really exhausting campaign, what’s a few more days?" Despite no winner having been declared, multiple right wing sites are crowing about DeMaio's win over "liberal hate groups." In the clip below, you can see Log Cabin Republicans head Gregory Angelo standing behind DeMaio.

#DeMaioTrainWreck

San Diego CityBeat is blowing up all of homocon Carl DeMaio's lies. It really IS a train wreck.

Homocon House Candidate Carl DeMaio Confesses To Plagiarizing Magazine

Homocon US House candidate Carl DeMaio says he is "mortified" after being busted for plagiarizing a political magazine's cover story for an "exposé" on Congress that he claimed to have authored. Via the National Journal:

DeMaio has claimed to have authored a "report" finding that 102 members of Congress are drawing a government pension atop their congressional salaries. He leaked an advanced copy to The Wall Street Journal on Monday and is following up with an event in San Diego this morning to induct some lawmakers, most notably his opponent, Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif., into a "Hall of Shame." But his "report" looks like little more than a copied-and-pasted version of a National Journal database that accompanied a cover story last June on congressional double-dipping. National Journal reviewed the financial disclosure forms of every member of the House and Senate to create the database and reveal that nearly one in five members of Congress are collecting taxpayer-funded retirements atop their $174,000 salaries. The data in DeMaio's version, which is touted as a "Report by Carl DeMaio" on its first page, matches the National Journal database, down to the text, colors, and abbreviations.

Americablog points out that DeMaio even copied the magazine's typos.  In an update posted tonight, the National Journal published DeMaio's apology.

Carl DeMaio called late Monday to say he was "mortified" by the situation and that National Journal should have been credited as the original source of his report on congressional pensions. "I'm terribly sorry," he said. DeMaio said his staff had produced the pensions report at his direction but he did not know the full extent to which its contents had been lifted from National Journal until Monday morning. Still, he took full responsibility. "I don't throw my staff under the bus," he said. He said he still hoped to change the system of members of Congress receiving public pensions, citing past success at the local level when "we've been able to shame" unwilling politicians into such reforms.

(Tipped by JMG readers Joel, David, and DM)

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Last week a San Diego paper called DeMaio "a hideous opportunist." Also last week the Log Cabin Republicans demanded an apology from DeMaio's opponent for linking to an Americablog post that referred to him as "Mary." Last year DeMaio angrily denied a claim that he'd been seen masturbating in the men's room of the San Diego City Council. Another news story alleges that DeMaio was secretly behind the drive to recall disgraced former Mayor Bob Filner, presumably with the intent to position DeMaio to replace him. Filner resigned before the recall campaign officially launched. Last July the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed DeMaio's bid for the US House. In 2012 local LGBT activists organized a campaign to boo DeMaio during that year's pride parade, noting that he'd been reluctant to endorse marriage equality and had accepted donations from backers of Proposition 8. DeMaio, a wealthy political consultant, is vehemently anti-union and has vowed that LGBT rights will never affect his political decisions.

Quote Of The Day - Pastor Mark Driscoll

"Sin is like water. It always finds the cracks and the low points where it can settle in to cause erosion. Deception is where we twist the truth into a weapon for harm and destruction. Cheating in school. Half-truths on a resume. Falsifying reports at work. Double-billing clients. And, pastors are notorious for 'borrowing' material. All of us are guilty of deception to some degree. Its prevalence, however, does not change the fact that deception is a demonic, satanic issue." - Pastor Mark Driscoll, of Seattle's Mars Hill megachurch, who has been busted for plagiarism in his latest book. Driscoll's "borrowing" was noticed by anti-gay crackpot (and JMG hater) Janet Mefferd.

RELATED: In 2011 Driscoll declared that male masturbation is a form of homosexuality because it is sex with a man.

Breitbart Headline Of The Day

Guess what they never mention in their announcement.

Washington Times Ends Column By Sen. Rand Paul Over Claims Of Plagiarism

The wingnut Washington Times is done with Sen. Rand Paul.

Sen. Rand Paul acknowledged Tuesday that he had failed to properly source material in published writings, including a column in The Washington Times, after a string of embarrassing plagiarism accusations surfaced in recent days. The Washington Times said Tuesday that it had independently reviewed Mr. Paul’s columns and op-eds and published a correction to his Sept. 20 column in which the senator had failed to attribute a passage that first appeared in Forbes. The newspaper and the senator mutually agreed to end his weekly column, which has appeared each Friday since the summer. “We expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column,” Times Editor John Solomon said.

Paul's history of plagiarism first came to light when Rachel Maddow reported that he'd lifted portions of a speech from a Wikipedia entry.