Jessica HusemanVerified account

cc: @johngizzi what say you?

If a reporter doesn't record, it is a good policy to run quotes past subject & thus avoid "corrections" & "retractions" from subbject later. Good lesson from late Richard Ben Cramer for his book "What it Takes." Dole, Bush etc. said controvsrsial stuff & he ran it past them.

You didn't just run the quotes. You sent the entire article to Kobach for approval. That's not normal.

You've obviously an answer that you're trying to justify. Along w. sending to the subject to check his quotes, I sent WHOLE ARTICLE to election law experts Jay O'Callaghan & Hans von Soakovsky to double check complex terms he used on voter I'D. I hope you Don't have a problem.

Thanks for this clarification. It's interesting that Hans didn't turn that email over to the commission.

Low-key, but very real, looooooooool.

He’s telling me that he didn’t record the convo and sent to run by quotes! Why send the *whole* the article?!

I've emailed sources before with sections where I paraphrase them to ensure I'm accurately reflecting their views. Never emailed an entire unpublished article, though. Any chance that's what this is?

Nope. Full article.

That's just ridiculous

Otoh Kobach’s editing style is succinct and clear. Doesn’t futz around with a lot of, “Great piece, but I’d like us to tighten our nutgraf and see if we can quicken our narrative flow” stuff. Just gets right to the point.

Indeed. Thought Kobach would be a stickler for a tight narrative flow.

As we know, he’s obsessively focused on the facts. Doesn’t want to muss up the story with cheap wordplay.

Lol if he was focused on the facts he would've abandoned his fact-light effort on voter ID after that court battle. The court battle was so bad he got held in contempt.