This morning there was a conference call with media to announce the kick-off of a new GOP group with the acronym KRAFT. I was pleased as the Publisher of this website to be invited to the virtual press event.

I will be taking time later to share with you my thoughts and observations about the content of the call. But for now, I will throw this out — several times during the call I pushed the requisate buttons to get in the queue to ask questions. Questions were taken from the LA Times, the Chron, the SacBee and others, but not from me (in these kinds of calls, the host can see the callers in the queue and select the ones they want to let onto the line). Somehow they never got to me. Understandable (and coincedental) if the number of reporters with questions exceed available time. But the MSM reporters kept getting “re-selected” for follow-ups as I kept pushing my buttons over and over.

My questions weren’t tough ones to answer – perhaps not as tough as the one I have now… Why invite me to participate and then exclude my ability to do so in a meaningful way? It doesn’t give me warm fuzzies about a group that is going to make subjective decisions about making millions in resources to some GOP candidates, giving them a big leg up on others in primaries.

I want to try and be positive about this new group. They aren’t helping me to get there. More to come later when I am not on a Blackberry.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.