Health Care; my media mistake

Hi Everybody!

It has been 14 days since my last post. Yes, I'm going to get better at this!

The campaign is going well. I have some big news (to us, anyway) coming up in the next couple of weeks, so stay tuned.

Right now, I'm spending a lot of time thinking about health care. I'm working on an idea that I can't really talk about until we release it, but that will be soon. My steering committee has been great -- helping me develop ideas and create something truly valuable for Missouri.

The other day I got into something that I should have been able to steer clear of (as someone who has worked with the media for, essentially, my entire career). I was waiting for my breakfast at Kaldi's (turkey sausage omelette on an everything bagel -- mmmmm) when my phone rang. It was a reporter with a local TV station, writing a story that was kind of negative about one of my opponents (their angle, from the beginning). All of the questions the reporter asked me were pretty biased and leading, but, well, I answered them. I used to teach corporate executives how to deal with reporters and this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I warned them about every time. Total rooky mistake on my part. (Turns out I'm not perfect, Mom.)

Oh well, the story ran and it included a paraphrased quote from me, sounding like I was bashing my opponent. That wasn't my intent, but it sounded that way. So I apologized to him (yes, against the advice of some of my more hard-core campaign friends) and we are all moving on.

From the beginning, my policy regarding my opponents has been pretty simple -- don't say anything about them at all. Hopefully, I'll be able to do a better job of that as we move forward. This race should be about issues and everything each of us says should be about ourselves and what we believe/want to do. My message is simple -- that Missouri should be educated, employed and insured. To the best of my ability, that is what you will hear about from me.

Have an awesome Wednesday!

- sean

Sean Spence
Candidate, Missouri's 25th State House District
http://www.spencecampaign.com/
seanspence@earthlink.net
573-823-1308 (mobile)