http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1208829318221560.xml&coll=7Tuesday, April 22, 2008
DAVE HOGAN
The Oregonian Staff
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Rep. Bruce Hanna should feel flattered. When The Oregonian sent questionnaires to candidates for its online Voter Guide, at least three of the House Republican Leader's fellow Republicans copied Hanna's answers or used much of his wording.
House Republican staffers e-mailed Hanna's responses to other Republican legislative candidates in the spirit of "this is for your information," said Nick Smith, a spokesman for House Republicans.
"We sent it around and said, 'This is what he's going to post,' but we didn't intend for campaigns to take that literally," Smith said. "We certainly didn't encourage people to use that information."
Candidate Piotr Kuklinski, a doctor who lives in Washington County's Bethany area, has never held legislative office. But using Hanna's answers made it appear that he had.
"In 2007," wrote Kuklinski, "I co-sponsored the Oregon Stability and Investment Plan to update our antiquated corporate tax system, provide targeted tax relief and boost private investments in Oregon's businesses and workers."
Kuklinski, who is running for House District 34, explained that he returned from a spring vacation trip with his family one day before the deadline for the questionnaires, "and the office was full of a mountain of work for me to sign for the last 10 days. I just cut and pasted," he said. "It came in handy because I was desperate."
He said he didn't realize he had included wording that made it sound as if he was involved in introducing legislation. "I would just have to be corrected on that because that would not be factual," he said.
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