The Morgantown Dominion Post reported Thursday that GOP Delegate Cindy Frich is the latest victim of push-polling, which is an effort to cast negative messages about a candidate in the guise of a poll. Push polling is illegal in West Virginia.
According to the Dominion Post, Delegate Barbara Fleischauer, a Democrat opponent of Frich's in the race, uses the polling company Global Strategies - the same company used by Lees, and which also lists Manchin as a client.
Fleischauer denied being behind any push polling, just as Lees did.