Kansas City’s The Pitch is reporting that Democrat Attorney General candidate Molly Korth Williams may be a plant.
In an article by David Martin, The Pitch insinuates that A.G. candidate State Senator Chris Koster has something to do with putting Williams in the race to siphon votes from St. Louis State Rep. Margaret Donnelly, who is obviously a woman. Koster, along with Jeff Harris, are among the Democrats running for their party’s nomination.
Sayeth Martin:
In filing the paperwork last month, Williams entered a crowded field of well-established candidates. Her qualifications to be the state’s top law-enforcement official are thin, to say the least. Williams has never held elected office, and she currently works as an eighth-grade teacher at St. Elizabeth School …
Williams is obviously a plant. Only a fake or a delusional person would challenge three state legislators who have been raising money and campaigning for months.
So the question becomes, who sent her out as a stalking horse? Circumstantial evidence points to Koster. Molly Williams is golfing buddies with a judge named Joe Dandurand, a man who’s been called a mentor to Koster.
And it only gets spicier from there!
There are pictures of Williams and Dandurand together in a 2003 newsletter of the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City from the two being in a golfing foursome at the association’s annual golfing events in 2004 and 2005. And Dandurand, a judge, presided over for a number of cases Koster tried as a prosecutor. And the cherry on top is the fact that Koster and Dandurand are chummy despite now having different political affiliations. (Koster was once a Republican.)
But Williams tells Martin she’s totally legit and his claims are baseless.
“I’d like to serve the people of the state of Missouri,” she tells me. A lawyer in good standing, Williams says she has had a “long, varied” legal career and has “temporarily” chosen to teach at her daughter’s school. “I love doing it,” she says.
Williams denies that she was prompted to run by anyone from Koster’s camp. But she is unable to discuss the specific things she would like to accomplish if elected. At this point, her candidacy amounts to little more than a declaration of eagerness and her outsider status. “I’m a lawyer,” she says. “I’m not a politician.”
Martin also points out that Williams has next to no funding and that her candidacy makes little sense considering Koster, Donnelly and Harris have stacked $1.6 million in dough for their runs.
Martin remains a skeptic, proclaiming, “it costs almost nothing at all to confuse voters. Williams’ presence on the ballot creates another option for voters who tend to support women but may not take the time to study each candidate’s qualifications.”
Click here to read the rest of Martin’s column.
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