Beginner mistakes
Cherelle Parker, still basking in her landslide win in the 8th Congressional District special election Tuesday (see here), is now being accused of violating election law with totally needless pandering to election workers. More likely an appearance than a reality of impropriety, but if the D.A. gets involved, that distinction ceases to matter. Whoops!
posted by ACM at 11:26 AM
3 Comments:
way to pass this off as a beginner mistake. Ms parker has been in polits since she was 17. With 15 years of experience under her belt, she knew what she was doing. She didnt have to cheat because she would have won anyway. It is a disgrace.
Well, she can't have been doing *too* much before she was even voting age, and my understanding is that she's a relative newcomer to electoral politics herself, however much she may have been doing for other folks. But perhaps I mistook early days of forging a strong political identity for nonexistent inexperience -- I certainly don't know much about her, since that's not my district. Working economic development for a City Councilwoman (as here) doesn't sound like the grounds for great political savvy on a larger scale (although she's also been a ward committee member).
Certainly if she was going to win anyway, that would make poorly considered over-friendliness seem more likely and craven maneouvering less so, was, I guess, my feeling. You might note that my headers are a bit loose anyway, so hardly worth getting het about...
actually, "beginner mistake" is the sort of thing that one would say dismissively. as in, "I'd think that Bob Brady was smarter than that; this looks like a beginner mistake to me." so I think it fits either way.
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