For those following the NYC Public Advocate race between incumbent Betsy Gotbaum and a host of challengers including Andrew Rasiej, a videoblog ("The Private Advocate in Her Private Office") from the Rasiej campaign team might be interesting -- it shows young voters being kicked out of Gotbaum’s office simply for asking for her public schedule:

"What is in Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum’s public schedule that would drive her to kick young people our of her office who were interested in asking her questions? That’s the question begging to be answered after the Public Advocate refused yet again to disclose her public schedule – this time to a pair of young New York voters—Rasiej interns going “double top-secret undercover”– who paid a visit to her office in downtown Manhattan to find out where Gotbaum would be in public next."

In other words, Betsy Gotbaum just got punk'd, and there's a videoblog entry that shows everything.

While we agree that the Public Advocate should be a highly visible position, and while we generally endorse the Andrew Rasiej campaign in its "Where is Betsy?" activities, me thinks that if a bunch of kids holding digital video cameras showed up at your office in the middle of the day asking for your whereabouts, the results would have been much the same.