Fraudulent E-Mail Suspect from Illinois Has Ties to Billy Long: Did Billy Long Know the E-Mail Was Coming?

The Internet is full of ties to Billy Long from a man who may have sent an e-mail from Addison, Illinois to Southwest Missouri media sources claiming Scott Eckersley quit the Congressional race. Since news broke the Eckersley campaign was pressing charges, Patrick J. Binning has been frantically removing his political consulting Web site and social media. This began yesterday as he removed references from his Twitter account to a fraudulent Scott Eckersley Twitter Account, and it has gone far enough that Binning is starting to appear like he is hiding something. For a recap of Binning's actions, please visit: http://bungalowbillscw.blogspot.com/2010/10/is-chicagolands-lakefront-strategies.html

Scanning Billy Long's Facebook page this evening turned up a connection to Billy Long and Patrick J. Binning. The day after the primary, Binning writes:

Patrick J Binning Congrats Billy, Let me know if you need anything between now and November-Patrick
August 4 at 12:42pm


Here's another entry from Patrick J. Binning on Billy Long's Facebook page from March:

Patrick J Binning Billy, as a fellow Greenwood Alum and Conservative, I wish you the best of luck towards August-PJB
March 29 at 8:18pm

The question tonight is does that anything include writing a fraudulent e-mail to give Billy Long a slight advantage in the polls on Tuesday and Did Billy Long or his strategist know the e-mail was being sent? There is a lot of strange things going on in Illinois as Mr. Binning appears to be removing as many online tracks as possible on the Internet.