The Democrats announced their Thursday morning news conference on Wednesday afternoon. Later Wednesday, Greitens’ campaign announced its own news conference for Thursday morning, in the same community center where the Democratic news conference was scheduled, and 15 minutes earlier.

There, female Greitens supporters slammed Koster’s record on women, for voting against a rape victims’ privacy bill while he was in the Legislature and for accepting campaign money from a lobbyist for the sex-trafficking site Backpage.com.

“They’re going to try to make outrageous connections between things that this veteran (the commercial narrator) clicked ‘share’ on on his Facebook page,” said Sarah Steelman, formerly a Republican U.S. Senate candidate “… (but) time and time again, Chris Koster has stood against women.”

Koster’s campaign responded that Koster had opposed the legislation in question because it contained a provision to make it easier for convicted murderers to get out of prison, and that he joined a national effort by other attorneys general to crack down on internet sex-trafficking sites like Backpage.com.