| An e-mail dropped in my inbox earlier from CT State Dems.
I have to say, I was pretty taken aback. I don't expect e-missives in a multi candidate race on State Central letterhead, particularly when there is a message on the bottom that reads:
Paid for by the Democratic State Central Committee ~www.ctdems.org~ Not authorized by any candidate or candidate committee
I was obviously not alone in my disquiet. It was mere seconds before the e-mails started back and forth between my political peeps, all of us scratching our heads and asking a collective WTF? Was State Central endorsing Cam Staples ahead of the convention? Most unorthodox.
I put in a call to Hartford and eventually got through to Nancy Di Nardo herself, who told me that this was opportunity was being offered to all of the declared candidates running for office. ("Democratic candidates," she added. Thanks Nancy, I think I probably could have figured that out for myself.)
What concerns me is that not one person I spoke to at State Central (and that would be three, including Nancy Di Nardo) seemed to realized in advance that this could be misconstrued as an endorsement, despite the obvious "PAID FOR BY CT STATE DEMS" tag at the bottom of the e-mail and no reference to the party making the list available to other candidates.
To me, it appeared to be gross misuse of the listserv and if I weren't a columnist and blogger, I would have unsubscribed immediately. I told Nancy Di Nardo as much.
Shortly thereafter, I got another e-mail:
Ever heard that thing about shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted?
I actually had hope for State Central when Colleen Flanagan and Gabe Rosenberg were there. For reasons that are unclear, they weren't kept on. So now, in a critical election year and in an challenging environment for Democrats, State Central seems to have relegated their New Media strategy (if you can call it that) to the toilet again. Go figure.
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