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Just Because You Don’t See Him Doesn’t Mean He’s Not There

By Kleinheider Posted on July 14, 2008 at 8:41 am

Aunt B. doesn’t see the handy work of the TNGOP’s Communications Director in the recent dustup over the release of TNGOP chair Robin Smith’s letter to the Governor and wonders what is up:

The conventional wisdom is that Hobbs would lose his job if Smith lost hers. But the question you have to ask, I believe, as you keep your eye on this is “Isn’t there one circumstance under which Smith losing her job would be good for Hobbs?”

And then you have to wonder if Hobbs’s silence isn’t calculated.

I mean, folks, really. What kind of Communications Director would let his boss send a letter to the Governor–which the Communications Director at least knows becomes public record–that could so easily be reduced to “How can I possibly be racist? Some of my kid’s best friends are black”? And what kind of Communications Director would then let his boss talk to the media about some grand conspiracy against her?

Maybe it’s as simple as a Communications Director who’s on vacation.

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One Responses to “Just Because You Don’t See Him Doesn’t Mean He’s Not There”

  1. TCL writes
    July 14th, 2008 11:12 am

    How can Ms. Smith ever believe anything sent to the Governor is a “private” communication? Everything is open records. This is either ignorance, playing dumb or being dumb. The TNGOP’s own Communications Director requests public records all the time, so she had to know any correspondence to the Governor would be public record. Perhaps she knew it would eventually come out as a public record request, and thought it would show her softer side with people warming to her. The letter backfired, so she has to blame the Governor’s offce, which made a public document public within the law. She says she’s been publicly libeled and slandered. That would require someone knowingly lying about her, but all that happened was an authentic document was released. The leadership at TNGOP is stunningly lacking of common sense.

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