Mike Tracy, spokesman for the Vaughn Ward campaign, says the campaign has taken down new issue position statements posted this morning, one of which matched another website. "There was something put up without my approval," Tracy said, "and I've made it very clear ... that we didn't want anything up until it had been cleared by me. We have taken those issues down until I have a chance to review everything thoroughly, and I take the responsibility for that at this point."

He added, "And the Duncan Hunter issue, I can tell you that Vaughn and Duncan have shared a lot of material in the past few months, and share the same ideals and the same values on the Iraq war, and have shared ideas and materials with each other and will continue to do so."

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