State Auditor Tom Schweich [2013 file photo].
This evening:
Messenger: From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich
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Had I not ignored his phone call to me at 9:41 Thursday morning – I was doing a thing at my kids’ school district – I might have been the last person to talk to the man who wanted to be governor. It made for a chilling day in which I decided to do something I’ve never done before as a reporter: reveal the contents of off-the-record conversations with a source. That source is now dead. I believe it’s what he would have wanted.
I have no idea why Schweich killed himself. But for the past several days he had been confiding in me that he planned to accuse the chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, John Hancock, with leading a “whisper campaign” among donors that he, Schweich, was Jewish.
He wasn’t, which is to say that he attended an Episcopal church, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t proud of his Jewish heritage, passed down from his grandfather.
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Go. Read the whole thing.
Previously:
State Auditor Tom Schweich (1960-2015) (February 26, 2015)