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The sad thing here is what Evans found probably wouldn't seem that objectionable to the voting public. So she got married before her husband was technically divorced? I have trouble seeing that as particularly newsworthy to her potential constituents. It's not like it was a sham wedding or anything. They got married, have stayed together and have a child. And the list accidentally included would be old news well before the election actually rolled around.

As a former opposition researcher I can tell you we rarely come up with a deal-breaker at the council level unless it's from a hack like Evans who has been in office long enough to get his hands dirty. Greig is not Herman Cain. We're not talking about her office buying off people she tried to pressure into sex for jobs. So much of this "research" is repackaged by pollsters and direct mail/TV vendors into something that doesn't even resemble the truth. I'd love to see what kind of probably actionable misstatements Evans campaign was going to spin from their "research." This is why good people don't win or don't run. The irony is, if Greig had run a research operation against Evans, given his tenure she'd probably have been much more likely to find questionable behavior from him than he would of her. It's just a sad reality that time in office makes you better at playing dirty.

by All the Bacon and Eggs on Nov 9, 2011 8:45 am • link • report