North Carolina state senator Jeff Jackson (D) has decided to move up in the world and is running to replace retiring US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) in 2022. Somehow I “friended” him on FB quite a while back, and I saw this morning that he had decided to show a little of his day:
Running for U.S. Senate is a unique experience.
So this Sunday morning, I thought I’d pause the policy posts and give you a sense of what life looks like from inside our campaign.
Yesterday morning I got a call from a national reporter asking me a question about policy.
Happy to talk, but… what he was really doing was inviting me to attack one of my opponents and hoping I’d give him a quote to create confrontation. I didn’t want to do that, so I kept my answer positive and non-combative.
I could hear the disappointment in his voice as he gave me multiple opportunities to wage an attack:
“Ok Senator, but do you feel it’s unfortunate that other people in this race don’t share that view…?”
Fishing, this reporter is. I’d be tempted to call up the reporter’s editor and demand a better class of reporter next time. Mention that reporters should be reporting, not creating, news. Move him to the opinions page if he wants to make news.
