Earlier today, I sent Brit an impassioned plea for him to please talk about this story today - I told him he is our only hope. I'm not saying I am responsible for him bringing it up, but maybe I helped a little bit. At least I hope that's true.
I have been firing off emails all day today to editors and journalists in states where we know fraud is going on as we speak. I hope other freepers will do the same.
Ditto, I even sent him the original Journtinel story, with this buried after, of all things, Charlton Heston coming to town to campaign for McCallum, and the location of the print version, page 3B (the local section). This is after:
- A front-page story regarding a McCallum ad asking for an investigation into Doyle for using state workers for campaign work, the same charge that Doyle's office is helping the Dane County DA use to gut the Assembly Republican leadership.
- A page 2A "award-winning" Spivak and Bice (or is that Bivak and Spice) column on the latest "misstep" McCallum had with the state air fleet (taking his son along to a soccer tournament where McCallum had business, which was reimbursed 7 MONTHS AGO). Side note; I predicted that EVERY McCallum "misstep" would receive front-2-pages coverage, while Doyle's UNCOMPENSATED use of a state plane to pick up a campaign check was buried on the inside-back cover of the metro section.
- A page 1B (Metro) section "hit piece" disguised as a "what the peeple think" series.
I wrote an e-mail to the Editor of the Journal-Sentinel this morning, asking why the paper has not covered this. Here is the reply I just received:
"WTMJ-TV broke the story last night. We had a short story this morning after we heard about it on the news at 10 p.m. With more time to report the story today, we will now have a longer story in Thursday's newspaper.
As whether our news coverage supports Jim Doyle, let me make a couple of points:
1) The Journal Sentinel broke the story last June that Doyle picked fiveof the 12 charitable groups that received grants $6.3 million lawsuit settlement with vitamin manufactures instead of relying on the advisory committee he established to make selections. Individuals connected to at least six of the groups chosen made contributions to Doyle's campaign for governor according to our story.
2) I heard from many readers this morning who said the gront page today completely changed places with our editorial page because we are trying to sell papers to people in favor for McCallum. They said taking the empty accusation of a "desperate" politician and putting it on the front page as news was "pathetic."
I would humbly submit that one's view of the Journal Sentinel governor's race coverage is colored by the candidate he or she supports.
Thank you for taking the time to write us.
Sincerely,
Marty Kaiser"