One thing that can be said about politics – it’s a gotcha game.
Far more so than an arena of ideas, policies, or intellectual differences, it’s about finding a misstep, mistake or misquote that can be used and twisted to malign an opponent and avoid the effort of addressing issues or defending ideas. It’s done by politicians of every stripe, because it works.
If Troy Downing didn’t know that before filing for political office, he sure did shortly thereafter. It took no time at all for someone to dig out an issue and for others to line up to begin calling him an “out- of –state poacher.”
Downing says he expects the issue to be drug out again, now that he is running for the office of State Auditor, and would like to explain his side before it becomes the subject of ten- second sound bites.
The charges were that Downing purchased read more
