Mary Souza’s Last Hurrah

Mary Souza has sent out an emergency newsletter this morning, decrying the tactics of the opposition and urging her readers to sweep out the incumbents. She launches the alert by saying that the campaign has been “incredibly dirty!” And then she calls incumbent Mike Kennedy a liar. Quoth: “First Jim Brannon loses his job, then all kinds of attack ads are produced and circulated by the incumbents, and now, with all his extra campaign money, Councilman Mike Kennedy puts out a mailing that is packed with outright LIES.” She claims the information in Kennedy’s “slick ads” are “not just twists of truth” — but 100% baldface lies. “Yet,” says Mary, “Kennedy put them in a “fancy advertisement and mailed them out all over town … the day before the election. Leaving not time for challengers to answer back.” She didn’t mention whether Kennedy violated any campaign finance laws like a follower of Mike’s opponent may have . I doubt he did. See full newsletter here .

Question: Did Mary Souza’s support help or hurt the challengers in the 2009 Coeur d’Alene City Council election?