Lori Sturdevant’s Star Still Dark Blue
By Mitch Berg
I read Lori Sturdevant’s piece on Betty “Rubble” McCollum’s waxing political fortunes. It was the sort of paeon Sturdevant always writes for DFLers who aren’t being perp-walked:
On it, a list-maker was jotting names of — what else? — potential candidates to challenge Republican Norm Coleman for his U.S. Senate seat in 2008.
It was laughably early but irresistible…At the top of the list was the name “Betty McCollum.”I don’t know if she’d leave the House,” I overheard. “But if she wants it” — meaning the DFL’s blessing for a run at Coleman — “she’s our best candidate.”
Possible.
But it was the part I replaced above with the ellipsis that caught my attention:
…I leaned in, looked and listened…
Does anyone seriously believe that Lori Sturdevant – the most reliable DFL flak among the Strib’s columnists – had to “lean in” like some sort of spy to get the story?
November 27th, 2006 at 2:16 pm
Lori Sturdevant’s “craft”:
“The National Journal’s Nov. 17 issue named McCollum as one of Pelosi’s closest non-California friends in the House, adding that the two women share “ardent liberal views and a strong Roman Catholic faith.” […] Now would be the wrong time for McCollum to even hint at a willingness to leave the House. “I’m making a full-court press” for Appropriations, she said. […] So it’s up to her admirers back home to point out that McCollum has risen from a junior to a senior player in state politics, and is now clearly U.S. Senate material. […] No one could claim that her big-city base would disadvantage McCollum in a contest with the former mayor of St. Paul.”
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If only Lori Sturdevant was in the journalism business…and not just a DFL media representative… she might do well. She should give it a try sometime.