Amy Klobuchar has avoided answering questions on Klobogate for over a week, which leads me to ask what questions she doesn’t want to answer. Today, MNGOP Communications Director Mark Drake might have given us the answers to that question. Here’s what he said:

“Based upon the deeply troubling questions raised by Mark Kennedy’s campaign today, a new question has now emerged: did the Klobuchar campaign, the DFL Party or any of their liberal allies push poll based upon the information the Klobuchar campaign received from the ad stolen by DFL operative Noah Kunin?”

As if that weren’t enough to get the press’s attention, Pat Shortridge asked additional questions of the Klobuchar campaign. Here’s part of his message today:

Let me tell you what we know:

We have learned, not because of the Klobuchar campaign’s cooperation, but through exhaustive analysis, that the ad stolen is the one I’m about to play for you now. Before I play, let me say that this is NOT a completed ad. It is probably only 50-60% done. Once the hacking occurred, we stopped any further work. So it is rough. But many of you have asked, so we thought we would play it for you.”
We then learned, as is laid out in Governor Quie’s letter, that someone had been polling on the substance of the stolen ad. I might add, only on the substance of the stolen ad, and none of the other issues we’ve been raising on Ms. Klobuchar’s record. No questions on her calls for massive tax increases, the more than $630,000 she’s gotten from EMILY’s List whiles she’s railed against special interests, the lining of her own pockets with oil stocks while she’s criticized the oil industry for high gas prices, or her calls for universal health care.
This turn of events calls into serious doubt the statements made by the Klobuchar campaign last Wednesday. It suggests that Ben Goldfarb ought to once and for all stand where I’m standing and answer questions:

• What did they do with the stolen ad?
• Did the Klobuchar campaign poll on it?
• Did they send it to the Democrat National Committee, the Democrat Senatorial Committee or the DFL with the assumption that they would poll on it or act on it?
• This is especially troubling when you consider that the DSCC has $2 million dollars worth of TV reserved for the month of October here in Minnesota.

Frankly, the longer the Klobuchar campaign avoids questions on this issue, the more support they’ll lose. If the Kennedy campaign has proof that “someone had been polling on the substance of the stolen ad”, then the FBI should investigate that as well.

There are too many questions surrounding this for people not to notice Klobuchar’s unwillingness to come clean. That’s gotta hurt. If there’s anything that will raise red flags, it’s a scandal-plagued candidate who won’t come clean. I’d float a question like this: Is their being tongue-tied is an indication that others on the staff aren’t also lawbreakers. Considering their behavior to this point, I wouldn’t give them the benefit of the doubt.

Minnesotans need to take note of Ms. Klobuchar’s behavior because it says that she isn’t a woman of character. It’s telling us that she isn’t about straight talk. It’s telling us that she’s a woman of deception. It’s saying that she’s a woman familiar with deception.

It’s worth taking heed of Ms. Klobuchar’s quote captured in Mark Kennedy’s commercial: The best way to tell what a person is like is to look at what they’ve done. In this instance, what Ms. Klobuchar has done is avoided taking responsibility for her campaign’s theft of Mark Kennedy’s property. She’s avoided answering the public’s questions.

God forbid that that’s the type of conduct we expect from our senators.

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