This ad highlights the huge gap between Harris (only 8 Months in the AG’s office), Donnelly (a career divorce laywer) and Koster (14 Years in elected office. 10 plus years as County Prosecutor, 4 plus years as a State Senator).

Koster is the only one running that is qualified for the position.

HARRIS WAS IN THE AG’s OFFICE FOR ABOUT AS LONG AS PARIS HILTON WAS IN JAIL

8 months! Only 8 months!! I have written time and time again about the lack of experience Jeff Harris has vs Koster. I never had any idea how little experience Harris really had until now.

Did you know that when Jeff Harris served as an Assistant Attorney General it was ONLY FOR 8 MONTHS. This is all he talks about and he only held the job for 8 months.

For heavens sake, what kind of experience does he think he got in only 8 months. Did he take any vacation days? Did he catch a cold and stay home for a couple of days? Maybe he really only has 7 and a half months of experience as an Asst AG.

I have interns in my office that have 6 months stints. Was Harris really an just an intern? That might make a little more sense.

For crying out loud, who holds a job for 8 months and then brags about how much “experience” they earned. Most people don’t even put a job on their resume if they don’t stick with it for at least a year.

I think Paris Hilton was in jail for longer then Harris worked as an Asst AG.

Why would anyone ever elect a guy to be AG that could not even put forth an honest effort when he took a job as an Assistant AG. Why would anyone elect a guy that had such little interest in the AG’s office that he quit inside of a year of being hired. Harris accuses everyone else of being political opportunist and using this election as a stepping stone to the governor’s mansion. What did he do? Serving ONLY 8 MONTHS!! Was Harris padding his resume?

Harris’ slogan is “Real Democrat, Real Experience”. Real experience, my foot. I bet 99% of the people working currently as an Asst AG have more experience then Harris.

I must admit that when I have blogged in the past about Harris’ lack of experience, I had no idea he held the Asst AG job for such a short amount of time. Talk about exaggerating his experience. I thought when I would say “Koster has 10 times the experience of Harris”, I was using poetic license and that I was exaggerating a bit. Little did I realize that Koster really has 15 times the experience of Harris.

Think about it, Harris started his job. It probably took him 2 or 3 months to get to know everyone, figure out where the bathroom was and get worked into the equation. After that, he worked, at most, for 2 or 3 months before starting to think about quiting. He barely started, and he quit (we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not get pushed out). For God sake, isn’t it kinda normal to call somebody “the new guy” until they have been there at least a year? Harris was still “the new guy” when he quit And now he wants people to believe that in this short 8 MONTH stint he somehow generated some huge amount of experience….please.

Does Harris have any other experience we should know about now that the whole Asst AG thing is kinda not all that impressive.

Sorry Jeff, experience is not something you can not just say you have. You actually have to work at it. And just a little more advice, it typically takes more then 8 months to gain truly valuable experience (i.e. knowing more then just where the bathroom is)

JFox-did you just cut and paste from your post on the Columbia Tribune Politics Blog? And when did experience become the final arbiter of whether or not a candidate is office-worthy? What if, like Koster, they’ve been making choices that you disagree with for a really long time? So they really know how to funnel large amounts of $ to their campaign by utilizing Rex Sinquefield…so they have changed party affiliation…the fact that he has experience as a prosecutor doesnt make up for these things…

I know Chris Koster well, having covered Cass County courts in the 1990’s as a reporter when he was the prosecutor, including the famous John Robinson serial murder case. That case along with many others, were handled skillfully by him and his office. His daddy Rich would be proud of him. For a great article to learn more about him, go to: http://www.showmenews.com/2007/Sep/20070902Feat006.asp

I love Chud’s comment: “JFox-did you just cut and paste from your post on the Columbia Tribune Politics Blog? And when did experience become the final arbiter of whether or not a candidate is office-worthy?”

I think the comment is cut-and-pasted. Chud is shocked - SHOCKED! So what? It’s still an interesting point, and Jeff Harris is staying up late doing the same thing across the internets, based on his whiny obsession with Koster (”Mom, Chris took my internet and won’t give it back!”). Chud is sort of right about something - voters serve as the final arbiters of office worthiness. Experience is and should be a relevant large factor. By the snooty Jeff Harris standard, if you are an independent or a former Republican now dissatisfied with your party’s direction or if you have split your ticket, you cannot come and play in Jeff’s private clubhouse. The TV ads are solid and the Clay endorsement is meaningful.

Koster’s doing everything right. He knows that all money spends the same, no matter the source. He knows that real experience - not trumped up resume padding - does matter. Harris and Donnelly are upset because they are rapidly becoming “also rans.”

Of course, Democrats are hard pressed to argue that prosecutorial experience is required for this office … since Jay Nixon had none when he was elected in 1992.

Harris has 3 years of experience in the AG’s office, not 8 months. But you’ve gotta love Koster’s paid bloggers for trying so hard to knock the better candidate.

Oh, and Koster isn’t qualified. He’s disqualified because of his Republican record. You can’t campaign with Dick Cheney and then expect Democrats to vote for you. It ain’t gonna happen, no matter how much of Rex Sinquefield’s money you spend. The voters are on to Koster, and they’re not going to support him.

And while Koster was cozying up to Matt Blunt and supporting his agenda, Jeff Harris was standing up to Blunt. He has actual experience in the AG’s office, and he is someone Democrats know they can trust. In fact, Jay Nixon said Harris will make a great Attorney General. He didn’t say that about Chris Koster. Wonder why? Could it be that Koster is a Republican?

Harris was a corporate attorney for Bryon Cave most of his career.

The Attorney General DOESN’T Handle prosecutions! Which Koster should know as a county prosecutor!!

The few that the administration would handle would be handled by staff, not the AG himself.

Koster is an embellisher (seriously blaming his exaggerations on staff?)

Harris is very underqualified.

Donnelly handled a few divorce cases, but was generally handing domestic abuse, sexual assault and a guardian ad litum for children.

I want someone as attorney general who knows what affects everyday people!

Advantage? DONNELLY

I totally agree, Lady D is my preferred choice as well…despite the fact that I am completely shocked (according to hartsburger) SHOCKED that Kosters people are cutting and pasting, I’m not a shill for Harris. The only thing I really find shocking is that were not discussing the 800 lbs. gorilla in the closet…er…corner…i had some emails about that but they got erased…

Bottom line here folks is that Koster is going to win. That fact is like holy water coming into contact with Linda Blair for the other two candidates and for Gibbons too!

His opponents have been unable to get beyond whining and howling that he used to be a Republican and that he has blown them away in fundraising. Folks, voters don’t give a damn about that as much as they care about the experience of the candidate. Koster’s experience is more extensive in all respects than his two opponents. The truth is that all 3 can handle the office and be good AG’s. This shrill and hateful posturing against Koster is exceedingly unbecoming of Harris and Donnelly but typical of liberal Democrats who cannot get beyond the fact that he has only been a member of their club for a short while. On every major issue of importance to Democrats, Koster is now on the right side. He changed parties because he could no longer go along with the Republicans on the very issues the other two spend so much time whining about.

If Koster were not in the race, whichever of the other two who ended up getting the nomination would be like lambs to the slaughter vs Gibbons in the fall. So thank God Koster is in the Democratic Party: so we will win in November! I’m delighted that Koster is in the Democratic field and that he will be the next Democratic AG for the state of Missouri. With the support of people like Bob McCulloch and Rep. Clay it’s pretty clear who is going to prevail in August. Between now and then, the Donnelly and Harris people need to simmer down a bit and quit being so hysterical. It isn’t helping them and it won’t hurt Koster. It will only make them look like crybabies.