Terry McMahon's Awesome Blog

First off, Political Wire is apparently desperate for more attention, and, hell, I'm up for it. They're not quite a blog, but if you're looking for interesting political news updates throughout the day, you can't do better.

Second, I have worked on three campaigns during which, for most of my tenure, the campaign didn't really get a whole lot of respect or attention. This is somewhat frustrating when your argument could go either way, but it's much worse when you're completely right and no one even cares. Perhaps there's no better example than when we were running against Craig Benson for governor of New Hampshire in 2002. Not only were we pretty confident that Benson himself was a crook, one of his finance chairmen ACTUALLY WAS

Dennis Kozlowski! How good does it get? Our opponent's campaign was being run by Lex Luthor! And yet nothing. All we got from the New Hampshire press that fall was Mark Fernald's attempt to institute an income tax. Well, and all of Craig Benson's convictions. Of course sexual discrimination sounds bad if you remember it. I digress.

Anyway, I mention it because Kozlowski, convicted of a felony in the workplace just like Craig Benson, is going up the river for at least eight years. Now all we have to do is get Ken Lay and we're back in business.