OpenCDA.com dynamic duo Mary & DanG are harping on the fact that incumbent Mike Kennedy sat in the back of the courtroom texting while the trial was going on. You can read their snarky remarks here. They fail to mention that Kennedy was an innocent bystander in all this. His one error was to narrowly beat an individual who didn't have the grace to ask for a recount and concede after that. Kennedy, who has had to foot his legal bill to defend himself for beating Brannon, posts on Huckleberries: "Gotta love those kind humanitarians over there. Mr. Gookin obviously missed the fact that I was trying to continue to manage 13 employees in a growing small business (i.e. my full-time job) by text and email on my PDA phone while in the midst of being sued by his small coterie of retired and/or unemployed individuals who appear to have limitless time to devote to such pursuits. Instead of Dummies books, maybe Gookin should pick up a copy of “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” Then again maybe that's a bad idea. Such a book in his hands might attract a major bolt of lightning from the Great Karmic Cosmos.

Question: Wouldn't you think the OpenCDA.com crowd, which purports to want to fix the Idaho elections system, would raise one concern that individual candidates, like Mike Kennedy, couldn't be sued directly in situations like this?