I was reading the Beacon about Robin Carnahan's new "aggressive" campaign. She actually claims she's been campaigning hard, but the press just hasn't been paying attention.
Carnahan disputes that narrative, saying in an interview that she has been campaigning in communities around the state for months, but that the public and the press often haven't been paying attention.
Who does she plan to win over with that? So the public was uninterested and the press was just plain lazy?
Of note at the bottom of the article is a bit about a possible Republican "tracker" getting the boot and being forced to leave, despite paying for a ticket.
The crowd cheered when one of the Democrat Days organizers, Joe Frese, announced that the audience had helped him spot the Republican "tracker" who was in the back of the ballroom videotaping Carnahan's remarks for his GOP employers.
I find that fascinating. Robin Carnahan is willing to have a tracker thrown out of a function he paid to attend, but how does she feel about trackers in the Secretary of State's office?
On filing day, as political hopefuls stood in line at the Missouri Secretary of State office, the Democratic tracker for the Robin Carnahan for Senate campaign stood in the office trying to record the private conversations of Roy Blunt. As the line was long, this was several hours of videotaping. Annoying? yes. Surprising? No.
What makes this newsworthy is the intervention of Laura Egerdal, the Director of Communication for the Secretary of State. Egerdal was seen and overheard instructing the tracker on what they could do, assuring him he had a right to be in the office, and to be videotaping Blunt.
It's not surprising to see Carnahan lackeys meshing their official state duties with campaign work. Hopefully this will be the last election we have to read about it.
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