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Monday, September 28, 2009

Media / Politics The Ellmyer Strikes Back!

Posted by Sean Breslin on Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:12 PM

ELLMYER: Mercury! I am your father!
  • ELLMYER: Mercury! I am your father!

Former senate candidate and exhausting rabble-rouser Richard Ellmyer nipped at the heels of Portland's media over the controversy surrounding a recent electoral endorsement in his most recent posting on the Portland Sentinel, after calling the Mercury "poisonous" in a previous post:
Quite unbelievably, Bob Caldwell, the editorial page editor of the Oregonian's opinion page, defended a newly established journalistic standard for endorsing candidates for public office which makes the Portland Mercury's technique look downright savory. The Oregonian will now endorse candidates for public office without requiring them to disclose any public policy positions they may hold or even being a registered, qualified, official candidate for the office related to the Oregonian endorsement.

The Oregonian has joined the Portland Mercury in throughly trashing the idea that there is any reason for any candidate to pay obeisance to the so-called, now passé, "candidate public policy interview."


See that? We're "downright savory." Like a truffle!

 

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Richard's Rants (TM) are news again? The Sentinel was ignoring him completely about a year ago, and I know that he got kicked off the community blogging pages at the O. (And my spam filter has finally learned buried them with the pharma spam.)
Posted by Matthew D on September 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM · Report
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Now that everyone has blocked his spam email he has turned to the poor Sentinel? Say it isn't so that our fair paper from the peninsula is that hard up for content.

Ignores...moves along
Posted by McAngryPants on September 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM · Report
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Doesn't he know the BagWahn is gone? Check out the red on red.
Posted by Robert Collins on September 28, 2009 at 4:02 PM · Report

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