Return of the exec attacks

Good Thursday morning. The Raja-for-executive team is promising "a major endorsement announcement" this morning at 10 a.m., along with the release of their tax/regulation plan.

Meanwhile, we're reposting below a piece from Democrat Rich Fitzgerald's campaign that was caught up in a glitch in our computer system yesterday:

Remember when it was only the Raja campaign that was doing the daily attacking in the Allegheny County executive race?

Following the negative radio ads by both campaigns, and the TV attack from the Republican's campaign, today Democrat Rich Fitzgerald's team is out with another outsourcing attack on Raja's tech company, this one on an op-ed he did for a business publication saying the practice is one to "certainly not fear."

The full statement from the Fitzgerald squad is after the jump, as well as Raja's article:

When Allegheny County Executive candidate D. Raja is on the campaign trail, he downplays his company's outsourcing practices. Yet, in the summer of 2006, he wrote an opinion editorial in TEQ Magazine proclaiming that outsourcing allows companies to "experience gains in efficiency, productivity, quality and revenues... by leveraging offshore talent."

"Raja is so out of touch that he actually thinks outsourcing is a good thing," Rich Fitzgerald's campaign manager Mike Mikus said. "Raja writes articles espousing the so-called benefits of outsourcing and brags to the media overseas about wanting to increase his outsourcing operations when nobody is looking, but he doesn't have the courage to tell the truth when he faces the people of Allegheny County."

Raja was exposed last week when it was discovered that he tripled the number of employees in his overseas office and that he hoped that outsourcing would account for 80% of his company's revenues.

"Raja's company website boasts that they strive to be number one in outsourcing, he writes articles calling outsourcing a good thing, and brags that he tripled his employees overseas," Mikus said. "The only thing missing is Raja's explanation."

Raja's article, "Professionals and students shouldn't feel powerless to cope with outsourcing," appeared in the June/July, 2006 edition of TEQ Magazine. A copy of the article is attached.

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