Neuhardt accuses Austria of plagiarism XENIA — The Ohio’s 7th Congressional District race’s Democratic candidate, Sharen Neuhardt, has accused her Republican opponent, Steve Austria, of plagiarism.
The accusations stem from a submitted column about Labor Day that ran in the Gazette News-Current Saturday.
According to Communications Director Jessica Kershaw, the Neuhardt campaign determined, after looking at Jeff Coryell’s ohiodailyblog.com, that about one quarter of the column was lifted directly from the Department of Labor’s Web page on the history of Labor Day.
On Wednesday, Coryell and other bloggers determined that additional parts of the column were taken from a Wikipedia entry on Labor Day, Kershaw said.
“I think what it says is that for someone who aspires to higher office to be stealing work for someone else is not a good example,” said Kershaw. “It says a whole lot about one’s character.”
While acknowledging that “a citation was inadvertently omitted,” Austria Campaign Manager Bard Mascho called the Neuhardt campaign’s allegations “a desperate act by a desperate candidate.”
Mascho said the Neuhardt campaign was using such tactics because their candidate “lacks a public record of supporting workers and the economy across the state.”
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