'Invisible Man' Mike Gibbons Running Second in a One-Horse Race

Has there been, in recent history, a less consequential Senate President Pro Tem than GOP leader Mike Gibbons?  Probably not, if his treatment in today's Columbia Missourian is any guide.

A story about Jeff Harris's take on Chris Koster's likely entry in the Democratic primary for Attorney General speculated about reasons for the switch in this graf (emphasis mine):

As a result, there have been accusations from both sides that Koster’s
switch was a calculated move to win the nomination for Attorney General
because he saw Harris as a less intimidating opponent than Republican
front-runner Catherine Hanaway, U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Missouri and first woman Speaker of the Missouri House.

"Republican front-runner Catherine Hanaway." No mention of Gibbons, not even as an afterthought.  

Gibbons has been raising money for an AG bid, according to his Ethics reports, since January of 2006.  Hanaway has neither opened a committee nor raised a solitary dollar for an Attorney General race.  Must be tough being a non-entity.

On the plus side, Koster's party switch has rocketed Gibbons from third place into the number two slot in the bid for the Republican AG nod.