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Hebert has the skinny:
A tape of yesterday’s U.S. Senate debate between Bruce Lunsford and Mitch McConnell appears to show that Lunsford didn’t steal a tape recorder belonging to a RSCC staffer, as republicans allege.
You can see the video here, just fast forward to about 1:33:00.
19 responses so far ↓
1 Chris Adkins // Oct 24, 2008 at 4:01 pm
The tape clearly shows Richard St. Onge walking to the podium and reaching around to pick up the recorder.
Hebert says: “The question is whether that’s the RSCC (sic) staffer coming up empty on his recorder or a Lunsford staffer stealing it.”
To any observer who knows Richard, the answer to Hebert’s question is clear. You can even see St. Onge start to follow Bruce Lunsford to ask him to give the recorder back.
This video is proof that Lunsford DID steal the recorder. Lunsford was the only person who had been at the podium prior to Richard approaching the podium to get the recorder and then not finding it there and pursuing Lunsford to retrieve it.
2 Mitchie is scared // Oct 24, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Chris i know that you are a scared person right now but Richard did put the recorder up there can i ask you why? wasnt that against the debate rules, and doesnt that go against what Scott Jennings said when he said the recorder was on the moderators podium i know that you are scared but come on you got caught and now your crying about it come on chris grow a pair
3 Mitchie is scared // Oct 24, 2008 at 4:38 pm
plus isnt it NRSC not RSCC dont even know your own committee
4 BILked // Oct 24, 2008 at 5:23 pm
How about refreshing our limited memories on what it pays and entails to work for this wonderful website?
5 Chris Adkins // Oct 24, 2008 at 5:50 pm
From debate rule #8: “…Candidates are free to film or tape the event.”
Here are all the rules, for reference:
1. The event is a business forum/debate sponsored by the Four Rivers Business Journal, a publication of The Paducah Sun and Paxton Media.
2. A buffet breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. at Kentucky Dam Village Conference Center with the forum beginning 30 minutes later.
3. Reservations are required. Candidates will receive one free table of eight seats. No tickets will be sold at the door and only those with
tickets may attend.
4. Candidates will stand at podiums. A time-keeper will flash cards informing candidates when 30 seconds and 10 seconds remain, and when time has expired. The moderator will stop the candidate if they continue after time has expired.
5. The debate will be divided into three segments. First, candidates will be asked four or five questions regarding specific business and economic development topics. The topics are
included at the end of this note. Each candidate will have 2 minutes to respond to the question. The moderator will then ask follow-up
questions on the same topic. This segment will take about 40 minutes.
The second segment will be candidates asking each other questions. Candidates have 30 seconds to ask a question and the other candidate will have 2 minutes to respond. Each candidate will ask four questions. Questions must be related to the economy and/or business issues related to western Kentucky.
The third segment will be closing remarks. Each candidate will have 90 seconds.
6. A coin toss will be held prior to the event. The winner of the coin toss will decide if they want to go first or second in the first segment. The person who goes first will go last in closing remarks.
7. The moderator will be Bill Bartleman, political reporter for the Paducah Sun. The moderator will ensure that the forum remains on focus and has the responsibility to interrupt and warn participants if they veer from the format.
8. Open press coverage will be allowed. Murray State University plans to film the event and may broadcast it live over the Internet. Candidates are free to film or tape the event.
GROUNDRULES
No political signs or banners allowed.
Candidates may wear one campaign button promoting their own candidacy.
No campaign material may be passed out prior to or during the forum.
No charts or visual material.
No notes prepared in advance. Paper and pen will be provided for note taking during the debate.
The audience will be asked to remain silent during the forum and not respond to any candidate’s answers.
6 Mike // Oct 24, 2008 at 5:56 pm
St. Onge has been following Bruce around all year with a video camera,if he’s on Mitch’s staff what he do the rest of the year !! ?
7 Wow // Oct 24, 2008 at 5:57 pm
That was Lunsfords Property and Richard illegally placed something on it. But hey i mean Richard has been STALKING bruce all year! Hey i mean i think someone takes the job to seariously chris question directed to YOU why did richard go towards Bruce’s Podium if according to Scott Jennings the recorder was on the middle podium why didnt richard go towards the middle podium if you watch the tape it seems as though richard runs up there to get something that shouldnt have been there
8 Oscar // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:09 pm
It is against the law to conceal a recording device and record someone without their knowledge.
Sure they could have recorded the debate like everyone else did, from the back of the room. But hiding the device under a pad of paper on the podium without informing Lunsford it was there is against the law.
That’s called eavesdropping and it is a class D felony. Check out KRS 526.
9 Wow // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:11 pm
chris what is ur answer to that, what would of you all done if Lunsfords campaign had placed a device under Mitchs or as you all call him the leaders pad
10 Mockingbird // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Actually the Lunsford campaign already admitted to taking the recorder and erasing it in the Polwatchers story.
And of course Chris knows the name of the committee that’s why when quoting Hebert (who doesn’t know the name) he put “sic”.
11 Wow // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:41 pm
right but look at the comments
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Oscar // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:09 pm
It is against the law to conceal a recording device and record someone without their knowledge.
Sure they could have recorded the debate like everyone else did, from the back of the room. But hiding the device under a pad of paper on the podium without informing Lunsford it was there is against the law.
That’s called eavesdropping and it is a class D felony. Check out KRS 526.
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9 Wow // Oct 24, 2008 at 6:11 pm
chris what is ur answer to that, what would of you all done if Lunsfords campaign had placed a device under Mitchs or as you all call him the leaders pad
so two questions
1) how was what richard did NOT a class D felony
2) What would the McConnell Campaign have done if Bruces camp had put a bug under Mitches writing pad?
simple questions, i am waiting for a response
12 BILked // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:15 pm
On Comment on Kentucky.
Bartleman say Senator King David Williams compared the tape recorder incident to Watergate.
He said Williams went ballistic
And he keeps getting elected? How?
13 BILked // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:18 pm
talking about Felner now WHAS guy talking ….
14 BILked // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Will PageOne get any credit…?
Wellman gives credit to PageOne.com. Wellman says PageOne kept saying it was more money than originally reported but he didn’t know it would be so much.
Now WHAS guy is giving credit to Jake Payne and his emailers
15 Republican gadfly // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Sorry Oscar….
Kentucky is a single-party consent state. That means that if only one person knows that a recording is being made, it’s legal. The Herald-Leader used the single-party consent clause to tape record conversations with former UK basketball players 20 years ago when they did their big expose.
And if St. Onge is following Lunsford around, so what? Last year a young lady from the KDP followed Gov. Fletcher around to his public and his open campaign events, videotaping them. Surprise surprise, the gal’s working in the gov’s office now.
16 Mitchie is scared // Oct 24, 2008 at 8:37 pm
following Lunsford to his home and NOT campaign events? did the young lady follow ernie there nope… you never did respond to my questions so for the sake of the republicans who cant responst questions here they are again
1) how was what richard did NOT a class D felony
2) What would the McConnell Campaign have done if Bruces camp had put a bug under Mitches writing pad?
17 Oscar // Oct 24, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Gadfly – That may be true if St. Onge was a party to the conversation. How do you know there weren’t conversations that Lunsford had off mic that were recorded? Why else would they put the device up there, under the pad of paper, while the debate was being streamed live and is still available on demand on the Sun’s website?
18 Dan // Oct 25, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Oscar is correct; single-party consent only permits St. Onge to record conversations that he might have had with Lunsford, not to generally “bug” the area of Lunsford’s podium.
But even ignoring the legalities of the issue, which is the more odious act? That the McConnell campaign attempted to eavesdrop electronically on Lunsford, or that Lunsford confiscated the equipment? As some who values his privacy, I come down on Lunsford’s side. (Hating Mitch helps me reach this conclusion, of course. But I think the situation speaks for itself.)
19 Thom // Oct 26, 2008 at 9:49 pm
St.Onge was kicked out of the Army for assaulting an underage girl at a bar.
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