Kent Redfield
Kent Redfield
decade dragging looked means news people reporters smoking stuff
All of the investigative reporters looked at this stuff a decade ago. To say there's something new, a smoking gun, means people are going to be suspicious. It does look like you're just dragging up old news and rehashing something that has been vetted before.
barely connection context difficult particular remember voters
It's sometimes very difficult to come back. You've got voters in their 30s who barely remember him being governor. It's always difficult to re-create that kind of connection you had and the context you had in a particular time.
opponent running
He would have been running them if he had an opponent or not.
assume bit corrupt corruption cost politics
We just assume politics is corrupt and a little bit of corruption is the cost of doing business.