I’m sure it’s all completely unrelated

The KNS has an article by Georgiana Vines about the recent flurry of emails and releases by both Jamie Hagood and Billy Stokes:

A recent flurry of e-mails and press releases shows the intensity of the state Senate 6th District campaign between state Rep. Jamie Hagood and lawyer Billy Stokes in their efforts to succeed retiring Ben Atchley.

The e-mails include one purportedly from County Mayor Mike Ragsdale that he says he did not send.

The e-mail using his official Knox County address asks to be removed from a list that invited recipients to a reception for Hagood. “I don’t want emails (sic) about jamie (sic),” the e-mail said.

“We’re trying to check out who sent it,” Ragsdale said.

Stokes said he didn’t know who sent it either but said a Web site critical of him had messages with Hagood’s name.

“I’m certain it wasn’t her. Someone knows what they’re doing,” Stokes said.

Now, I am certain that they are referring to the now defunct Cas Walker weblog. It has been speculated that Cas was shut down due to an injunction or some such. Cas lost a lot of credibility with the local media (I am told) when he started editing and deleting comments that were left at his site by the people he was blogging about.

You may also recall when I speculated that local politicians were reading local blogs (and why wouldn’t they?). It turns out that in some cases they are but in some cases there are imposters doing these politicians a disservice by making rather asinine claims. For example, someone alerted me via email that a comment supposedly left by Jamie Hagood over at Cas Walker’s place referred to Jamie admitting to engaging in certain sexual activity. Obviously, the real Jamie Hagood would never say something like that.

Additionally, here at SayUncle, our activity log reveals that in the past couple of weeks there have been a lot of searches using my internal search function for the phrases Jamie Hagood and Billy Stokes. I guess someone in their camps is checking to see if I’m writing about them.

There’s trouble abrewin’!