Spokesman for Missouri state auditor kills self one month after boss did the same
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The spokesman for the Missouri auditor was found dead Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, just a month after the suicide of his former boss, GOP gubernatorial frontrunner Tom Schweich.
Jefferson City police said Monday that Robert "Spence" Jackson was found dead Sunday evening at his home in the capital city. A police statement said Jackson's death is being investigated as a suicide.
Jackson had been the spokesman for Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, who shot himself to death on Feb. 26 at his home in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton. Jackson had remained as the office spokesman after Schweich's death.
Schweich killed himself moments after ending a telephone interview with a reporter allegedly state GOP chair Jack Hancock had started an anti-Semitic "whispering campaign" against him, a charge Hancock has vehemently denied. Jackson, in turn, had been a vocal opponent of Schweich's political adversaries.
All of this makes very little sense to most of us Missourians. This isn't the 50s. Anti-Semitism doesn't work here. Moreover, Schweich knew that. He's been a savvy politician, though garnering lesser national attention that some others, for years.
There's a lot more to this story. Whether it's actually any of our business is another thing.
