Can I tell you something? You can't wipe away your history. Not from folks like me. So when you go about scrubbing your online profiles, I'm going to catch you.
I caught Sara Howard, SEIU alum and current communications director for Russ Carnahan, who tried to alter her past to hide connections to ACORN and ACT in Missouri.
I caught Jeff Mazur when he tried to delete his connections to FiredUp, Blogger, and the login known as General Content shortly after I posted it (Jeff, I'm not done with that Sunshine Request. $2000 to look up browser history?)
And now I caught another Campaign staffer for Robin Carnahan scrubbing her employment at America Votes after I started revealing the close ties between this umbrella organization and the Carnahan campaign.
Meet McKenzie Lehmann, a well-meaning young lady who volunteered with America Votes in the summer of 2008. From there, she got her first taste of official political life as a paid staff member of the Carnahan for Secretary of State campaign. What's that? What's that you say? Her LinkedIn profile doesn't have any mention of Robin Carnahan or America Votes?
Of course it does.
It was a minor job, but for some reason, McKenzie decided to erase it.
Maybe she was just tired of politics, but it's strange this all happens after the America Votes connection starts to come to light.
Now don't get me wrong - this looks like just a simple job that McKenzie did and I actually feel bad about dragging her into this, but here's the third person that came from America Votes that worked directly for Robin Carnahan. It's starting to make me think that maybe there's a connection.
After my original post tying Paula Hodges to the Secretary of State's office, did the work go out to cleanse profiles? How many more are there?
Did McKenzie get a note from her Facebook friend Mindy Mazur to delete those connections?
Why such panic over such a little matter?
Who really cares if a low level campaign staffer worked for America Votes?
We don't. But we do care when that past gets scrubbed, because it tells us we're on to something. It tells us that the initial theory that America Votes coordinates the third party attack on the Roy Blunt for Senate campaign while Robin lays low is right on target. $750,000 in television ads purchased in multiple markets across Missouri takes effort. I'm not done digging, and I already found another America Voters staffer who went to work for a Carnahan.
The only question that remains is how badly the Post Dispatch is going to get scooped this time.
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