Searching for Missouri’s “Ghost Candidate”
(KOMU/NBC News) Missouri Democrats are expressing concern over a possible “ghost candidate” on the ballot ahead of next Tuesday’s vote.
Megan Rezabek, a political newcomer, defeated fellow Democrat Dennis Oglesby in the Third Congressional District primary election in August by extraordinary margins, earning nearly 70 percent of the vote.
Despite this massive victory, Oglesby says she did very little to move forward to the November election.
“I had put in hours upon hours upon hours of work, and the constituents in the Third District were trying to reach out to her trying to contact or schedule things,” Oglesby says. “They got no response whatsoever.”
Rezabek’s campaign has both a website and a Facebook page. Her website has some mistakes, including incorrectly calling the Green New Deal the “New Green Deal.”
It also features a video with music and text, but no video or audio from Rezabek.
Some comments on her page said voters wanted to hear from the candidate herself, instead of the music that plays in the background.
Her campaign has not filed Federal Election Commission reports.
Rezabek filed for the election earlier in the year and paid the filing fee by check. Based on that address, a reporter from NBC affiliate KOMU drove to that address in Jefferson County. No one answered the door or responded to multiple handwritten notes that were left at the address.
The same reporter also tried to reach out to Rezabek’s campaign through Facebook messages, phone calls and email. There have been no responses to those attempts to contact her.
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