Lansing political consultant Mark Grebner zeroes in on Detroit political consultant Steve Hood, who has taken responsibility for the mess surrounding U.S. Rep. John Conyers' nominating petitions, which could keep Conyers' name off the ballot in the August primary and force the 85-year-old Conyers to mount a write-in campaign.
"Time to bayonet the wounded," Grebner writes on MichiganLiberal.com.
"Conyers has long surrounded himself with crooks and fools," writes Grebner, who works mainly with Democrats. "...Disaster has always been lurking around Conyers, and only luck that carried him this far."
The present disaster was brought about by hiring Steve Hood, who was paid something north of $5 per gross signature, and who seems to have farmed out the work to people even more incompetent and dishonest than himself.
Hood has been a fixture of the "Detroit political consultant" scene for quite a while - ten years? fifteen? - and I can't recall anything he's done that seems inconsistent with this level of shoddiness. My hope is that each of us will devote a little bit of attention to remembering this acheivement, so every time his name surfaces, somebody will blurt out - "Isn't he the guy....?" I'm sure he can find another field in which to ply his manifold talents.
