Democratic Senate candidate plagiarized nearly his whole website

A Democratic Senate candidate from Tennessee, Gordon Ball, is the latest target of BuzzFeed's plagiarism exposés. According to BuzzFeed, Ball's campaign website lifted material directly from a number of fellow Democrats' websites, mainly from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown's. Here is one example of the many BuzzFeed provides:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren:

And here's Ball:

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Ball expressed surprise at the revelation, saying, "I had no idea that this material was cut and pasted on my website from other sources." The plagiarism was blamed on a former campaign intern.

Past BuzzFeed stories have revealed a Democratic gubernatorial candidate who plagiarized biographical information; a GOP Senate candidate who copied her economic plan from multiple other sources; Sen. Rand Paul's use of Wikipedia text in explaining movie plots; and at least eight Republican candidates who plagiarized Paul's issues pages.