Sentences with phrase «opposition researchers»

He also talked about hiring opposition researchers to dig up more dirt.

According to Buzzfeed, Michael «outlined the notion of spending «a million dollars» to hire four top opposition researchers and four journalists.

And if Cuomo pursues a presidential bid in 2020, as many have suggested, surely opposition researchers will attempt to use Percoco to paint Cuomo's New York as a swamp.

To boil it down, the growth of blogs and alternative journalistic outlets (Drudge Report, etc.) has given political opposition researchers a huge number of new avenues to distribute dirt or distracting information about a rival while still maintaining their own anonymity.

Many of the best tools are household names, but opposition researchers leverage them to reveal information that can change the course of a campaign.

A Republican opposition researcher working for America Rising is editing the Wikipedia articles of Democratic candidates, Andrew Kaczynski reports for BuzzFeed.

To be sure, the hiring of opposition researchers is hardball politics, but certainly not unusual even in a state legislative primary, especially one that is a proxy war between the mainstream Democratic conference and the four - member Independent Democratic Conference.

A month later, at an off the record dinner party with journalists, senior exec Michael grumbled that Uber should hire opposition researchers to dig up dirt on reporters it did not like, and mentioned Lacy.

The news came at a time when one of Uber's top executives — since - departed Emil Michael — even suggested hiring «opposition researchers» to track journalists critical of the tech giant.

This week's lead topic: will Periscope and Meerkat prove provide a huge assist to opposition researchers?

Opposition researchers are working hard on that, but in the meantime snapshots of the situation in towns with high student populations reveals a dramatic fall - off.

In short, he's an opposition researcher's dream.

Perez's source say that challenger Mark Gjonaj hired an opposition researcher who uncovered the dirty laundry and then apparently tipped off the NY Post.