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The Republican Party has for decades struggled with a public image – an inaccurate and even slanderous one, I will note – that it is an organization bent against the rights of minorities, women, pretty much anyone not Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

And then the Maine Republican Party messes it all up by coming out as anti-Orc Assassins.

Maine state Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz is being accused by Maine Republicans in an official campaign release as leading a “bizarre double life” as Santiaga: a cutthroat with green skin, mohawk and fangs.

The thing is, “Santiaga” is Lachowicz’s avatar in the crazy popular online game World of Warcraft.

Here is the mailing that the Maine GOP has sent out across the state:

So now attacking a candidate’s hobbies is considered an acceptable political tactic? This is a whole new low, one that the Republican Party should not only be ashamed of but ...

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Whatever the heck that thing is you see on the right (‘cuz I don’t play World of Warcraft) that’s the on-screen persona of one Alfred Hightower, an American citizen who’s been wanted since 2007 for drug dealing. But when he heard the fuzz was onto him Hightower jumped across the border and set up shop in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Hightower didn’t leave World of Warcraft however. And that’s where a Howard County, Indiana deputy sheriff was able to find him and with assistance from the game’s producer Blizzard, wound up tracking him down and having Hightower extradited back to the United States.

Click here for the tale of Alfred Hightower and how one can’t escape justice inside an MMO....

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