Who Is Sabotaging the Johns Campaign?

Interesting story in today's Post about Marie Johns week of high profile events meant to boost her sagging poll numbers. The story is interesting because it appears that someone or someones are attempting to sabotage the Johns campaign:

Johns's campaign supporters say at least one rival views her as a threat.

They point to a strange convergence of events leading up to Sunday's "voter roundup," during which Johns supporters were corralled to eat barbecue, ride horses and hear their candidate. The event drew hundreds to a park in Congress Heights, despite what the Johns campaign considered acts of sabotage, including the removal of signs and calls telling Johns supporters that the event had been canceled.

And who might be working to sabotage the Johns campaign? Well the Johns folks have an idea, and honestly it wouldn't surprise me in the least:

"It's coming from the Cropp campaign," said Johns's campaign manager, Leslie Pinkston. "They're threatened."

Yesterday, the Cropp campaign denied any effort to derail Johns but declined to comment further on the issue.

Johns supporters are asking an interesting question too:

"If we are so low in the polls, and we are so not a threat, then why are people putting so much energy into undermining us?" asked Johns supporter Cora Masters Barry as she sat on her front porch to watch the roundup in the federal parkland just beyond her fence.

Does the Cropp campaign view Johns as a threat? Wouldn't her outsider campaign draw more votes from Fenty? In the end will Johns be a player or will she be kept in the single digits? Only time will tell... its just starting to get fun!