The Bearing Drift policy on advertising and consulting has always been very clear, but just to reiterate:
1 – should we receive advertising money from a candidate, it does not imply endorsement
2 – should a contributor provide consulting to a candidate, that contributor will not write about that race.
I hope this clarifies the policy, if there was any confusion before.
Bottom-line: to imply that we are somehow biased because we take the words as written or spoken by a candidate and then write commentary on it because of some perceived hearsay over consulting fees is an insult to this blog and our credibility.
I stand by all my contributors and their integrity. I trust them implicitly.