Kent Redfield is spot on here:
Kent Redfield,an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois Springfield and director of the Sunshine Project, a nonprofit campaign contribution database connected to the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, said it would be more useful to Brady’s campaign to frame it as an issue with Quinn’s managerial skills than his ethics. “It’s much easier to make the case that Quinn is incompetent [than corrupt.] … That Quinn’s a nice person but he isn’t up to the job is an easier sell.”.
So at this point in the campaign, Quinn’s strategy appears to be confuse the Brady campaign with crazy behavior so they cannot decide whether to paint him as incompetent or corrupt. Pure genius.
At this point in an election having to choose between the narrative of incompetent or corrupt is exactly where you want to be.
Also, see the Daily Show clip below and come up with your own Team Stupid and Team Evil skits for Quinn.
And to be sure, the e-mails are pretty penny ante stuff. Definitely a violation, but hardly a serious one and Stermer reported himself. The question is how you can be so stupid to fire the IG while all of this is happening.