Jennifer Kim's Negative Mail

by: Karl-Thomas Musselman

Fri May 02, 2008 at 10:23 PM CDT

At issue is Randi Shade's campaign mangager/advisor Mark Nathan. Now, many BOR readers may know him from successfully managing a number of the current council's campaigns, and it is that point which the mail piece refers to. Fair enough.

But being a political blog, we wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't point the irony (or hypocrisy, take your pick) in this story- the key point being that the very same "developer lobbyist" that Jennifer Kim attacks in this mailer... was originally sought out by Jennifer Kim to run her campaign.

And the following were provided by Nathan himself as background for this. There are more but I think this illustrates the point. According to Nathan, Kim asked him to work on her 2005 campaign as well (he declined) and back in 2002, Nathan quote "personally hired her to work directly for me on the 2002 Tony Sanchez campaign, which she did for five months".

------ Forwarded Message
From: Jennifer Kim < jennifer.kim@... >
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:51:35 -0500
To: Mark Nathan < mark@... >
Subject: RE: Hi Jennifer...

Hi there, Mark.  Yes, thanks for calling.  I'm in DC right now and would be
able to meet Friday if you are available.

Jennifer

______________________________

From: Mark Nathan [mailto:mark@...]
Sent: Tue 6/5/2007 3:51 PM
To: Jennifer Kim; Jennifer Kim
Subject: Hi Jennifer...

Thanks for the call about your campaign.  I left a voicemail on your cell
last week, thought I would email to see if we can find a time to talk.  I
hope this finds you well!

Regards, MN.