A flier distributed by the Maine GOP attacks Democratic state senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz for playing an orc assassin rogue in World of Warcraft, using quotes she’s made about the virtual violence her imaginary fairy-tale creature gets up to in order to imply that she is unfit for office. Timothy Lee has more on Ars Technica:
“I love poisoning and stabbing! It is fun,” the flyer quotes Lachowicz as saying. The candidate is apparently a regular commenter at DailyKos, a liberal blog. And the Maine GOP has mined the site looking for what it regards as damning comments. Most of Lachowicz’s remarks were posted in 2009 or 2010, most likely before she began her current campaign for office.
“I can kill stuff without going to jail,” she wrote in December 2009. “There are some days when this is more necessary than others.” The flyer points voters to a website, called “Colleen’s World,” that highlights more cases where she describes virtual violence she committed in the online world.
Candidate for Maine State Senate attacked for Warcraft character