Oberndorf campaign files complaint on Sessoms-Obama flier

[Blue_Tires]

VIRGINIA BEACH

Mayor Meyera Oberndorf's re-election campaign has filed a formal complaint over fliers handed out on Election Day showing her opponent and eventual winner, Will Sessoms, with Barack Obama.

The fliers depicted Sessoms and then-Democratic presidential nominee Obama smiling side by side, as if they were supporters of each other's campaign. But Sessoms backed and contributed to Republican presidential nominee John McCain. No disclaimer on the fliers indicated who had authorized them.

They shouldn't have been passed out at polls on Election Day, said Roger Oberndorf, the mayor's husband and campaign manager. "It was an illegal flier," he said. "I would have filed a complaint whether we won the campaign or lost the campaign."

Sessoms said he had no prior knowledge of the fliers and had them pulled at midday on Nov. 4.

Bruce Williams, a consultant hired to help the Sessoms campaign with black voters, said this week that he didn't ask for permission to hand out the fliers.

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/11/oberndorf-campaign-files-complaint-sessomsobama-flier

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