Pomeroy Campaign Has Operatives Out Following Rick Berg Around
Rick Berg is in the middle of a statewide tour where he’s meeting with constituents and taking questions. Something, I’d point out, that Earl Pomeroy isn’t doing. Rick Berg has a map of all of his events on his website so that you can turn out and meet him. Earl Pomeroy doesn’t publish where he’s going and isn’t holding public events where you can show up and ask him questions.
An important contrast before the two candidates I think.
Anyway, I got this in an email from a reader in Bismarck this morning:
I attended Rick Berg’s kick-off press conference for his bus tour in Bismarck yesterday morning at 8:45. It was at Ace Hardware. I noticed a young man with a small video camera on a tripod right next to the big KX camera guy. In Rick’s opening remarks he commented on how different it is to run a statewide campaign and pointed out the videographer from the Pomeroy camp who is taping him at every public event. (I had noticed a little pickup in the parking lot with Obama stickers all over it on my way in). Rick was not confrontational at all, but very gracious, even calling him by name.
Interesting, no?
Obviously, Pomeroy’s campaign is looking for Berg to make some sort of a gaffe they can make political hay out of. And that’s part of politics. Pomeroy certainly has a right to have his people show up to open events and hear/record what Berg has to say.
But it’s not something that’s typical of North Dakota politics. It’s yet another indicator of just how scared Pomeroy is this campaign season. And, I’d point out, that Berg could probably do the same thing…if Pomeroy held public events.
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