Don't say we don't get results. After several series on the links between FiredUpMissouri authors, Missouri Democratic operatives, and an as yet to be resolved leak of documents directly from the Secretary of State's office, the authors at FiredUp have all gone silent.
In the month of October, 183 posts were written. Every single one of them was written and posted by Sean Nicholson.
It's almost as if someone told them to cool it before they got caught. Of course, the problem now is that if Sean is the only one writing, than how exactly can the site continue to function as community? At some point, they're going to have to look at the impact FiredUp has on Missouri politics, and realize that impact is pretty small. Donors, whose identities are masked but aren't hard to figure out, are going to start wondering what they're paying for. Reporters no longer trust FiredUp, and if FUM can't get state documents, what good are they?
Personally, I'm hoping we find the donor checks and donor emails in our document searches. The goal of 24thstate has always been clean government, and paying some hack to churn out gossip and personal attacks is a slight to all the hard working bloggers out there, who are unpaid, unaffiliated, and remind politicians they are being watched.
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