Patrick J. Benning Deletes Lakefront Strategies Twitter Page After Scott Eckersley Announces Criminal Charges Will be Filed for E-Mail Controversy and BBCW Makes Billy Long Connection

The fraudulent e-mail that showed up at most of the media outlets yesterday announcing Scott Eckersley was suspending his campaign has an IP address from Addison, IL. Based on information on Twitter using a fake Eckersley twitter account that showed up earlier this week, a Lakefront Strategies, a political consulting group with possible ties to Billy Long, was caught promoting the fake Eckersley twitter account.

After Eckersley released their press release claiming intent to press criminal charges, LFStrategies deleted references to the Scott Eckersley account from their Twitter page. A few minute prior to deleting those references, Jim Lee and myself managed to capture screen shots of the tweet.

About 8:00 PM last night, BBCW released a blog that connected Patrick J. Binning and his Lake Front Strategies to Billy Long. Two hours later the LFStrategies twitter account had been entirely removed. Why would Lake Front Strategies remove their Twitter social media presence suddenly after a story was released that connects Binning, who I believe may have wrote the Scott Eckersley is quitting e-mail, to Billy Long?