Scott Murphy, the Democrat running for New York’s 20th Congressional District, has a new ad. It accuses his Republican opponent, State Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco (R), of hiring a political contributor as chief minority counsel in the state Assembly. (The ad accuses Tedisco of “creating” the job, although by any reasonable definition, the job clearly did exist before.)

But that calls to mind something that Murphy removed from the bio on his own website within the last month. Murphy, who was once a registered lobbyist in Missouri, used to advertise on his website that his fundraising skills were “formidable,” and that he had raised $1 million for two major Democratic campaigns 16 years ago (the wording remains in some of the literature he sent to local party organizations). And if you read it all, you’ll notice that after he raised all that money, he was hired as an aide to Missouri Govs. Mel Carnahan and Roger Wilson (D), serving as deputy chief of staff for the latter.

Do you suppose that is why Murphy changed his website?