Jim Webb’s campaign manager needs an editor. From the latest campaign email:
And [Sen. Allen] hired Dick Wadhams, a man whose last race featured the despicable intimidation of Native American voters and campaign workers breaking the law.
Let’s overlook for the moment that it’s not a complete sentence. Read without the first half of the prepositional object may make the other problem clearer.
And [Sen. Allen] hired Dick Wadhams, a man whose last race featured the despicable intimidation of campaign workers breaking the law.
So what’s wrong with intimidating people who are breaking the law? Ah, what a comma would do.
And [Sen. Allen] hired Dick Wadhams, a man whose last race featured the despicable intimidation of Native American voters and campaign workers, breaking the law. “Thereby” is then implied.
I figured with my check I get to give them a grammar lesson.
And as others have pointed out, this sentence leaves us a little cold:
The fact is Allen and his campaign have not earned the right to challenge Jim Webb’s position on free speech and flag burning.
You don’t really “earn” free speech, even if Allen is a draft dodger like so many other right-wing, arm chair soldiers.