mea culpa

In an earlier blog on the Chris Romer-Michael Hancock mayoral election, I criticized Romer's pronounced and repeated negative campaigning. I quoted specifically, however, from a fancy mailing put out by a pr0-Romer "citizen's" group, not by the candidate or his campaign.
The brochure repeated the several Hancock negatives that Romer himself has raised, and continues to raise. But I don't believe Romer has ever charged that "voters can't trust Michael Hancock to do what's right," and he has denounced the group's mailings.
One sad fact about politics is that it is so easy for independent groups to broadcast lies and distortions and then simply fade away. Another sad fact is that a candidate can benefit from such political slander while publicly washing his hands of it.
In this case I don't believe Chris Romer had any part in the "citizens" mailing. And he didn't benefit. It cost him.