Maybe the spokespeople should be on the ballot?

Posted at 2:32 PM on June 26, 2006 by Bob Collins

A press released came in yesterday (or maybe it was Saturday) after Mike Hatch named Judi Dutcher as his running mate. Ostensibly, it was a competing candidate's response; only the single quotation in the release was not from the candidate, but the candidate's spokesperson.

There's an article today in the paper analyzing another candidate's position in crime and the opposition gets a few shots in (oh dear, I suppose that's a bad pun). Only the opposition wasn't the opposition candidate, but the candidate's spokesperson.

What are the candidates doing? Are they out back mowing the lawn? Planting the last of the gladiola? Still sleeping because they went to the drive-in movies last night? (I admit, one of the wierd things when I moved here was drive-in movies that don't start until close to 10:30 p.m.).

During my leave -- when I'm not mowing the lawn or planting gladiola bulbs. -- I think I'm going to keep track of all quotations contained in news stories that feature either the candidate or the candidate's "spokesperson," to see who gets more "ink." Feel free to send any you see in the course of a day to me at bcollins@mpr.org. Maybe I'll sit outside of a few candiates homes to see if they mow their own lawns too.

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