Candidate for Prosecutor Caught on Tape

Posted:7/22/2004 10:09:32 PM Modified:7/22/2004 10:09:32 PM Candidate for Prosecutor Caught on Tape Kansas City, MO-- Cynthia Clark Campbell is one of three candidates who will square off for Jackson County Prosecutor on August 3rd. Thursday, Prosecutor Mike Sanders' campaign staff produced a videotape showing Campbell removing Sanders' signs from the area of 60th Street and Ward Parkway. Campbell admits she did it, but says she was only retaliating for what Sanders and his campaign workers have been doing. She claims they've been doing the same thing to her signs all over Kansas City. Sanders, on Thursday, had not comment.

Kansas City lawyer Cynthia Clark Campbell says 30 years of law practice, including 10 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, make her the best choice for voters.

She wants to lead by example, be a mentor and instill professionalism in an office she said has become too big and too political.

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Posted on Sat, Jul. 24, 2004

Campbell

Tape shows candidate pulling signs

By JOE LAMBE The Kansas City Star

A candidate for Jackson County prosecutor admitted Friday she was the woman caught on videotape tearing down a rival's campaign signs along Ward Parkway.

Cynthia Clark Campbell, running in the Aug. 3 Democratic primary, said she acted out of frustration, alleging that incumbent Mike Sanders or his supporters had been stealing her signs across Kansas City.

“I was fed up,” she said.

Sanders denied stealing any signs and said in a news release that he had lost 200 signs of his own to vandals.

Campbell's conflict with Sanders began this month after more than 20 of her campaign signs along Southwest Trafficway were taken down. Many were replaced with Sanders signs, she said.

Sanders said he went door to door in the area asking people whether they had taken down his signs to put up Campbell signs. But he denied removing any of her signs, said campaign spokesman Pat O'Neill.

Campbell acknowledges no witnesses saw who removed her signs.

As for tearing down Sanders' signs, she said, “I didn't do anything wrong.” She said the signs were illegally put on public easement.

O'Neill disputes that. Of two signs he knows she tore down, O'Neill said, one was clearly legal on private property.

Campbell also questioned whether Sanders set her up and had someone follow and videotape her.

O'Neill said he got the tape from a Sanders volunteer who lives near Campbell on Ward Parkway. He said the woman just happened to see Campbell removing the signs.

Missouri election officials said the destruction of election signs is a local police matter. O'Neill said Sanders would not file a police report.

To reach Joe Lambe,

Jackson County courts reporter, call (816) 234-4314 or send e-mail to jlambe@kcstar.com.

She wants to lead by example, be a mentor and instill professionalism in an office she said has become too big and too political.

KEYWORDS here. TOO BIG and TOO POLITICAL.

For those of us with decoder rings, the translation is all too clear.

For those without decoder rings (and only because it is election time) here is the translation:

This office is the center of MAJOR POLITICAL PULL and a HUGE BRIBE INCOME. We cannot let it fall to just ANYONE. The THREE BIGGEST RATS in town are gonna fight to the end to get this one.

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