By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD– Who’s that guy with the video camera? If you’re around politics, it could be a “tracker” from the enemy camp.
A man who worked for Congressman Rodney Davis’ (R-Taylorville) campaign was allegedly drunk and belligerent when he pestered Democratic opponent Betsy Dirksen Londrigan in a Springfield bar this month. State Rep. Tim Butler (R=Springfield) says he does not engage in this, but he does know the dance moves.
“Working for Congressman Davis, I ran his 2014 campaign and worked on his 2012 campaign, we were subject to a lot of tracking ourselves,” State Rep. Tim Butler (R-Springfield) tells WJBC News. “I was sitting outside at (a Springfield restaurant) one night after a debate, and I had (opponent) David Gill’s tracker putting a video on us, sitting outside! That’s, unfortunately, part of the deal.”
Butler says the Davis campaign did not employ trackers when he was running it. Davis and the man arrested and fired, Levi Lovell, tell conflicting stories of what Lovell was supposed to be doing that night in August.
