Posted by
Katie Favazza on Sunday, January 28, 2007 3:38:38 PM
Answer: Emailing amateur bloggers regarding posts from over five months ago.
Last Monday, January 22nd, at 2:45 pm, I received the following email:
Dear Miss Favazza:
Hello. My name is Stacy Morse, and I am an aide to Missouri Senator Jeff
Smith. Thank you very much for acknowledging Senator Smith's recent
victory on your blog.
A few clarifications:
1) Senator Smith has never lived in Ladue. He was born and raised in Olivette.
2) He received less than 1% of his campaign donations from people living in
Ladue.
3) He has never asked a student of his to work on any of his campaigns.
4) MoveOn.org did not endorse or support his campaign in any way.
5) He never told anyone that the Firefighters endorsed his campaign, although
he did tell one constituent on whose door he knocked in St. Louis Hills that he
had spoken to three city firefighters about his campaign, and he mentioned them
by name.
We are sorry that you were waitlisted at Washington University.
Best of luck at the Catholic
University.
Stacy E. Morse
Legislative Assistant to
Senator Jeff Smith, 4th District
stacy.morse@senate.mo.gov
573.751.3599
Fax: 573.751.0266
State Capitol, Room 425
Jefferson City, MO 65101
What in the world? Does anyone think this is an appropriate way to spend Missouri tax dollars? To pay a woman to respond to a five month old blog post, written by an amateur blogger and student? It seems to me that Jeff Smith has bigger fish to fry, and perhaps he could use the help of his staff during normal business hours.
If
I wasn't so concerned about the fact that Miss Morse was paid to write
this to me, I might have to be flattered. The "we" at the end there
brings Senator Smith himself into the equation; ladies and gentlemen,
an elected official reads my blog!
Oh, and one last thing. I'd like to point out that I received this on Monday, but chose to wait to post it until the weekend. I didn't think Townhall.com would appreciate me wasting my time on the clock to dignify this with a response.