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Stump Connolly is the pen name of Scott Jacobs (born March 27, 1950) an American writer, reporter, and video journalist. As chief political correspondent of The Week Behind, he has covered six presidential campaigns and authored four books: STUMP, A Campaign Journal (1996), Talk’s Cheap, Let’s Race! (2004), The Long Slog: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House (2008) and I Told You So! Donald Trump, The Awful Years (2021).

Early Life and Education
Jacobs was born on March 27, 1950, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Waukesha County, a bastion of Republicanism. His grandfather William Grede was a founder of The John Birch Society and and his mother ran the local John Birch Society bookstore. He attended University Lake School and graduated from Harvard University in 1971 where he was executive of the Harvard Crimson and campus correspondent for Newsweek magazine.

Career
Video Journalist

He started his journalism career as a reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel covering the Wisconsin state legislature. In 1972, he moved to the Chicago Sun-Times and, four years later, traded in his reporter’s notebook for a video portapak, taking a leave of absence in 1976 to pursue video journalism. He went on the road recording video stories with a 1/2" reel-to-reel portapak then returned to Chicago to become a founder of the Center for New Television. He has won an Emmy award for cinematography in Hobo and produced documentaries for Bill Kurtis that aired on PBS and Arts & Entertainment television.[ He also produced the political commercials for Jane Byrne that led to her upset win over the Democratic machine in the 1979 Chicago mayoral race.

Chief Political Correspondent

He first used the name Stump Connolly to sign expense account reports while serving as a senior producer on two 90’s Election Specials –The Primary and Convention – that were part of the 1992 PBS election coverage. He continued covering politics as chief political correspondent for The Week Behind (so named because it came out on Friday) and his columns on the 1996 presidential race, circulated by email to fellow reporters, turned into his first book STUMP, A Campaign Journal. He has covered six presidential campaigns and produced three more collections of his columns. His latest is I Told You So! Donald Trump, The Awful Years, chronicling the rise of Trump from 2012 when he received the Statesman of the Year award from the Sarasota Republican Party and ending in a flurry of stories on Trump’s desperate attempts to stay in office.

Works


 * 1978: True Lie Video Stories (Subtle) ISBN: 1-879652-39-0


 * 1979  Jane Byrne for Mayor commercials (Don Rose Communications)
 * 1981  Hobo, produced by Tom Finerty, Emmy award for cinematography (WTTW)
 * 1991  To Save a Crane, The New Explorers with Bill Kurtis (PBS)
 * 1992  Road to the Presidency: Inside the Clinton Campaign (Subtle) ISBN: 1565804201
 * 1996  STUMP, A Campaign Journal (Dead Tree Press) ISBN: 1-887-229-03-5
 * 2002  Saudi Arabia: A Complicated Ally, a Bill Kurtis Special Report (A & E)
 * 2004  Talk’s Cheap, Let’s Race! (Dead Tree Press) ISBN: 978-879652-45-3
 * 2008  The Long Slog: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House (Dead Tree Press) ISBN: 978-1-879652-00-2
 * 2015  Stump Reporting In, online video reports on the Chicago mayoral race (Gaper’s Block)
 * 2021  I Told You So! Donald Trump, the Awful Years (Dead Tree Press) ISBN: 978-1-879652-29-3