Apparently, I might have been wrong. I said weeks ago that Dave Lindstrom didn't seem interested in keeping his seat on the Johnson County Commission. Today, as I was reviewing the mail I came upon a very interesting campaign flyer that might indicate otherwise. First we've had one commissioner, John Toplikar, caught on tape stealing his opponents signs and now Lindstrom's October surprise. These guys are very interested in keeping their sweet little gig that pays them $50,000 a year for a one day a week commitment.
The Kansas Club for Growth, a PAC with a Wichita address, sent out a very nasty campaign piece against James Azeltine alleging he was involved in professional misconduct in his day job as a financial advisor back in 1995. This plays on a nice little hot button issue right now with the stock market problems, the financial crisis and people's 401K woes. Now, it might be possible that the Kansas Club for Growth took it upon themselves to take this shot at Azeltine. However, with Lindstrom's statewide connections I'm guessing while he might be personally above this type of attack he wouldn't be above having someone else do it for him. Why else would they be interested in this sleepy little race for the Johnson County Commission? I did a quick bit of research and I failed to make a firm connection between Lindstrom and the PAC. I'll keep working on it.
It is such a beautiful piece of work orchestrated by these folks too as there really isn't any time for Azeltine to respond in any real substantive way with the election in just two days. I guess the only thing wrong with the strategy is that record numbers of people like me have already voted. I've scanned it for you below.
I guess I've completely underestimated the Burger King of Johnson County. This is nasty. This is playing dirty pool. Would you really expect out of all the races in this cycle that Dave Lindstrom would be the one to try something of this nature? I didn't see this one coming. I also noticed a bunch more Lindstrom signs out tonight so he seems to be putting on a push. By the way, it isn't that I don't think that issue is out of bounds I just take issue with the timing. Azeltine doesn't have time to respond and explain. Just for the record, if he wants to post an official rebuttal to this charge LIFE IN SOJOCO will be happy to post his response.
I've seen James Azeltine at work on the Leawood City Council and while we don't know each other I have confidence he'll bring the energy, experience, creativity and leadership we need to the Johnson County Commission and I would like to see him win.
Below, we uncovered pictures of Dave Lindstrom with a strange woman that isn't his wife on the beach. People who live in glass houses don't throw stones Mr. Lindstrom......just keep that in mind.
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