Just Who Is Writing Anti-Kinder Posts Over At FiredUp?

The public loves a good serial killer mystery.  From movies like Seven to CSI, to Silence of the Lambs, the story line of profiler against criminal is just too good to pass up.  Occasionally someone will ask the question, are we sharing too many detective secrets in these movies?  Are we teaching the bad guys how to get away the crime?

The answer is no.  Thankfully for law enforcement, crime, like most of human action, is a matter of habit.  The clues we give in our daily actions tend to be unique, and it's rare to find someone disciplined enough to really hide their tracks.  That's true online as well.  Habits are hard to break.

Which brings us to the matter of General Content, over at FiredUp.  No, that's not a military title, it's an admin login for the FiredUp blog.  The purpose is ostensibly to publish general content, but it's also an anonymous way to post information and not use your name.

Now we know some of the players over there.  Roy Temple, though he blogs very little.  Jean Carnahan, who just writes columns, Jeff Mazur, who used to sign his name, and of course, Sean Nicholson, who is the new webmaster.  So who writes General Content?

We're pretty much out of luck in getting Roy Temple on the record, but we can use clues to determine who uses that account.  General Content is a strange screen name.  It's rare.  Thus it's likely that whoever writes under the General Content name on another site, is the person who writes the general content section for FiredUp. Luckily for us, there is another General Content author profile, and it's on Blogger.  What you see is an author profile for General Content on the original blog Missourians for Fair Elections.  That blog has since been moved to another site, but the original was the source of my reseach on the astroturf campaign of Robin Carnahan for the Voter ID act.  That astroturf coalition was run by Laura Egerdal, Julie Terbrock, and Jeff Mazur.

The same Jeff Mazur who now works for Jay Nixon.  The same Jeff Mazur who hasn't written under his own name on FiredUp since late August of last year.  The same Jeff Mazur who is married to the campaign manager and former chief of staff for Robin Carnahan.

So today we see  the blogger General Content writing about Peter Kinder and the Tour of Missouri.  The blogger writes last night at 7:50 p.m. to attack Kinder's management style, and today at 12:31 p.m. to call him a disgrace for asking for private funds.  This is not Sean, the webmaster writing, as Sean has another post up attaking Kinder, and there's even a Sherman Potter writing another post on the topic.  The two General Content posts are pretty clearly someone else with the admin permission to speak for the FiredUp site. That's a small group.  Considering the links between Firedup, Jeff Mazur, and the General Content author title, could it be that Jeff Mazur still has the blogging bug, and just can't help weighing in on Peter Kinder from his offices in the capitol? 

Is an employee of Missouri Governor Jay Nixon using government resources to attack the Lieutenant Governor through an anonymous blog?  I think it might be time to put in a FOIA application.

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kudos for bringing this to light. Whoever the author is should have the guts to show his or her name on the posts.