Ed Cone noted NET Blogger columnist claims
Rachel is missing! Retracts statement after
finding Rachel on Office Milk Carton! Local Talk
show host Britt Whitmire refuses to send
Rachel a get well card and pray for her.

Jun 14, 2006

UPDATED -- see conversation with RLH below

The meltdown of the Rachel Lea Hunter campaign raises a question: where is Rachel Lea Hunter?

Her husband, Connie Mack Berry Jr., has said on this site that Hunter is ill. Berry is the one doing all the talking these days (see comments in this thread).

Hunter's strange story -- a recent transplant to NC who ran for high office, she tried to get listed on the ballot as "Madame Justice," and switched from Vernon-Robinson-supporting-Republican to VR-bashing Dem in short order -- has gotten stranger, and maybe sadder, too.

Connie Mack Berry Jr seems to be running the show, and he's running it right into the ground. Where is Rachel Lea Hunter?

UPDATE

I spoke to Rachel Lea Hunter by phone from her office in Durham.

She says she writes the statements at her website, but that the Dean Smith thing "was a misunderstanding, I don't know how that got there, I didn't write it. People hack into a lot of things."

When I asked about the same verbiage being used in her emails, and the defense of the original statements by Connie Mack Berry Jr, she said she did not know what to make of that.

I asked about Berry's comments on various blogs. She said she had not read them all, and had not read any for 10 days. "He is just an advisor" to the campaign, she said.

She defended her comparison of Vernon Robinson to a slave on a plantation, saying that Hillary Clinton had called Congress a "plantation." I asked if it was not a little different to compare a black man to a slave, she did not see it that way.

She confirmed that her tumor has returned, and said that after an MRI and consultation in July she will decide on treatment, which may involve surgery or radiation. She said does not expect the treatment to have an impact on her campaign, although she did say surgery could leave her face paralyzed.

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Where is Rachel Lea Hunter? * Ed

At the firm office Ed! What don't you call her and confirmed the alien kidnapping late last night! So far today, over 5000 thousand visitors to her site in search of Rachel Hunter the supermodel. Ed! I didn't know you were into conspriacy theorys. Hugs and Kisses and get JJ out of jail.

Posted by: Connie Mack Jr | Jun 14, 2006 at 11:31 AM

Please email me her phone number and I will call at once, thanks.

Posted by: Ed Cone | Jun 14, 2006 at 11:32 AM

Sure will Ed! We will put you in line for the confirmed missing report with the rest of the media. By the way! You are required to send a get well card to her about her recent battle with her outgoing tumor and a donation to her support group. Can I depend on it? Of course if you cannot make this effort like GOP leader Ferrel l and Mr Meek. I will understand. Oh When do you go on the Brad and Britt show and talk about missing political bloggers? Did I miss it already.

Posted by: Connie Mack Jr | Jun 14, 2006 at 11:41 AM

Thanks for the updated report Ed. I did move you up the line. I do feel better that you found her and don't have to file a missing report with the Greensboro police.

Posted by: Connie Mack Jr | Jun 14, 2006 at 12:04 PM

What a sad situation. This woman is obviously suffering and should not be in the public eye right now, let alone a candidate for office. I feel for her family and I hope that she gets the help she needs soon.

Posted by: Britt Whitmire | Jun 14, 2006 at 12:15 PM

I feel for her family and I hope that she gets the help she needs soon.* Britt

Right Britt! Have you suggested that for Anne Coulter? And since when have you become a mental health expert? Surely some of the listeners can make the same judgement about a talk show host after they interview them?

Posted by: Connie Mack Jr | Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36 PM