KMBC Channel 9 reporter Mike Mahoney is angering up the blood of politicians this year (as he always does).
In another awesome confrontation, Mahoney makes U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt get out his pointing finger when asked whether he knew a woman -- an illegal immigrant on whose behalf he wrote a letter when he was Missouri Secretary of State and she was seeking political asylum -- who claimed that she was Blunt's housekeeper. (Watch the video after the jump.)
In the video, Blunt sternly says: "You know, that's just such nonsense, Mike, and you know it. And it's desperation politics on their side. And, uh, these issues are bigger than that. We put a statement on that at the time. It was accurate at the time. You can go back and read it."
"Did you know her or not?" Mahoney fires back.
"We put a statement on that at the time. And it's exactly accurate. You read it, and you know what it says."
Mahoney was trying to wade through the ever-changing versions of the story Blunt and his campaign have been giving. First, his campaign spokesman told the Star that the woman had "simply helped out at a couple of church events" and "never worked for the
Blunts."
But Blunt's 1990 letter begins: "Dora Narvaez has done some work for Roseann." That's consistent with what Narvaez told the Star, who said she was the Blunts' housekeeper "for several months in 1990."
Yesterday, congressional candidate Kevin Yoder gave Mahoney the silent treatment as the reporter asked him whether he obstructed a DUI investigation.
H/T: Fired Up! Missouri.
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Mahoney strikes me as a guy who will ask the tough questions regardless of the politician's party, which is all I ask of a political reporter. It's fine for political reporters to have political views (they are human beings), but they either need to check that crap at the door or become a pundit.
Blunt is the consummate DC insider -- much more comfortable in the DC social set than with real Missourians back home. He belongs on The Real Housewives of DC, not the Senate. Unfortunately, I have an equally low opinion of Robin Carnahan. If I still lived in Missouri, I would not be able to bring myself to vote for either one of them.
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