According to Buzzfeed, that’s exactly what she did. This time not from Karl Rove’s people, but her vanquished primary opponent Jason Conger, who apparently doesn’t care.

The Oregon Republican Senate candidate plagiarized her health care plan, again.

In a weird twist, Monica Wehby’s new health care is also plagiarized — but even stranger, it’s plagiarized from her primary opponent Oregon Rep. Jason Conger, whom she criticized repeatedly during the primary on health care.

BuzzFeed News previously reported Wehby’s original health care plan, which went out in a press release in November 2013 and was scrubbed from her website sometime this year, plagiarized from a survey done for Karl Rove’s group, Crossroads USA, on health care.

Wehby’s new plan, which BuzzFeed News read in an Oregon Register Guard op-ed by Wehby (but is also available on her website) takes her former opponent in nearly-vertbatim sections.

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2 replies on “Surely Monica Wehby Wouldn’t Plagiarize <i>Again?!</i>”

  1. The Wehby campaign is an embarrassment. Perhaps next time the Koch Bros should just purchase a life-size cardboard cut-out of Ronald Reagan and have that run for office.

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