What is wrong with an elected official referring a citizen to published news stories that answer her question? It's not that McFall wouldn't answer the question, it's that the question had been answered several times elsewhere. There is NO WAY for McFall to know whether Hatfield was contacting her as a journalist or as a campaign operative. It looks like Hatfield had blurred that line before, so why would anyone expect her to have any degree of journalistic integrity now?