Plunderbund

Another mustachoed, hypocrite, republican lawmaker is about ready to resign after being accused of soliciting gay sex.
CNN is reporting that…
Washington State lawmaker Richard Curtis resigned his office tonight after a man he allegedly paid for sex spoke to the media about the encounter. Curtis is the third conservative lawmaker in just as many months to […]

Liberal Bloggers Depart Plain Dealer Over Campaign Contribution, Political Pressure. Jeff is quoted:
“If you’re going to have a rule about campaign contributions, have it at the outset and don’t adopt it in response to a complaint,” he said. “But it’s a bad policy. I was specifically hired as a partisan, to argue my side. […]

Bill Sloat has the fedora on and is doing the virtual beat walking. So far, my take is he’s getting sunshine blown up his skirt relative to LaTourette’s involvement in getting Jeff Coryell fired from the PeeDee’s failed “Wide Shut” experiment.
All he said was “wassup wid dat”?
Yeah. Right. Whatchoo Talkin’ […]

Cleveland Plain-Dealer Fires Blogger After Congressman Complains
In the end, the newspaper valued its relationship with a congressman more than it valued one of its employees. Simple as that.

Day 1 Roundup
PeeDee’s Susan Goldberg, in attempt to wipe shit from shoe, falls back into it
4 PeeDee Employees Contributed to Political Campaigns
Columbus Dispatch Executive Contributed to State Senator’s Campaign
Note to 3 Remaining PeeDee “Wide Shut” Bloggers: Resign Now!
Day 2 Roundup
PeeDee “Wide Shut” Fiasco Dies as Jill Miller Zimon Resigns

The “Wide Shut” project will now either die or become purely wingnut…either of which will render it useless. Jill has resigned:
Earlier today, I resigned as a freelance blogger for the Wide Open blog. Jean Dubail gave me the choice to post about my decision, or let him do it. I decided to write about […]

Sorry for the deviation into personal stuff, but this is important to me - and I’m pretty devastated. If I don’t post for a while, you can assume I’m taking another spontaneous mental health sabbatical.

A picture of my dogs, Buddy (left) and Ozzy (right). This was taken last January, just a week or […]

ONN is reporting that utility companies are donating tons of cash to Ohio’s GOP lawmakers who are responsible for shaping the state’s new energy policy.
Investor-owned utilities most affected by changes coming in Ohio’s $14 billion electric power industry have lavished thousands of dollars on the political campaigns of Republicans who will steer those changes.
Campaign finance […]

Pinning to the top and had to break off from earlier roundup post because it’s still blowing up!
See the Day 1 Roundup
Day 2
Poynter: Liberal Bloggers Depart Plain Dealer Over Campaign Contribution, Political Pressure
Mother Jones: Cleveland Plain-Dealer Fires Blogger After Congressman Complains MJ says:
In the end, the newspaper valued its relationship […]

Voices as disparate as Chris Baker and Matt Naugle have already called for it and I will echo those sentiments. The Wide Open experiment is over. They failed. Steve LaTourette jerked and the PeeDee blinked. Game over. There will be no more credibility in the failed experiment.
Baker is, […]

Earlier this week Dennis Kucinich questionioned George Bush’s ‘mental health’ in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health. There’s something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact.”
I don’t necessarily disagree with Dennis on this. I’ve […]

Oh the outrage! I wonder if the Dispatch will hold it’s writers and executives to the higher standard that the PeeDee appears to enforce willy nilly. Michael F. Curtin (who is vice chair and COO of The Dispatch Printing Co. and associate publisher of The Columbus Dispatch) donated to Kevin Coughlin’s campaign. […]

The British Pound hit a 27 year high against the US Dollar today. 27 years….

I’ve been hearing horror stories about this year’s pumpkin crop being destroyed by bad weather across the U.S. (Average Jane over at PO has a good overview of the situation ).
Despite the bad news for pumpkin growers- and the predictions of pumpkin shortages across the country- I had no problem finding pumpkins in Columbus, Ohio…

Happy […]

The Ohio Money Tree is still bearing fruit. Data is current as of last month too I hear. Turns out 4 PeeDee employees have given to political campaigns. Two are writers. How wide and how deep does Goldberg want this to go? We haven’t even begun to have fun with […]