Comments on: Fischer Says He Was Entrepreneur Of The Year

By: BT

BT — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:08:41 +0000

The question I have is: Will this matter to people, or are they too distracted with “Dancing With The Non-Stars” to notice?

It certainly matters to me, but I follow these things. There have been 1400 mayoral forums and we still have a large portion of the community that is undecided. It’s like people don’t even know about the damned ice machine claim yet, then, if Fischer gets elected, they will all whine like swine about “why we didn’t hear about all of this” before.

Would it help if Doug Hawkins sent out an email blast on the subject?

By: jake

jake — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:02:15 +0000

what?: Here's photographic evidence of his fancy campaign embellishment.

By: what?

what? — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:54:08 +0000

If the other candidates run with this in ads it could cost Fischer the election. You really have to ask what sort of person would make such an incorrect statement..

By: jake

jake — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:14:40 +0000

Once again… I’m publishing photos tomorrow that back my story up.

Greg was never Inc. Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year.

By: tbrauch

tbrauch — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:12:43 +0000

And one more comment… the earliest date I can find this being mentioned is in a UofL CoB press release from 2007. I can’t find any sources online that make this claim that haven’t been updated since 2007. Anybody else know when he first made this statement?

By: tbrauch

tbrauch — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:06:06 +0000

After spending more and more time searching Inc’s website, I have found that a lot of people from Louisville have been named regional EotY, but even at that, I can’t find anyone with the name Fischer ever having been named any sort of EotY.

I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’m just saying proof that it did happen is hard to come by.

By: Steve Magruder

Steve Magruder — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:44:58 +0000

While I do lots of Wikipedia edits, I want to make sure everyone knows that it wasn’t me who made that particular edit to Fischer’s page. It was somebody who chose to be anonymous beyond the IP address 74.142.174.175. It’s somebody who uses Insight for their Internet. (I use AT&T DSL.)

Also, the Internet is a fast contraption, especially when a lot of people are following things right now, and a lot of things can happen can seem coordinated. It’s really just that many politicos want the voters of Louisville to know about who they’re voting for.

By: James Moore

James Moore — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:11:34 +0000

I’ll be honest: None of this really matters to me… And all of the candidates want and promise better jobs, better education, better blah blah blah… The show-stopper issue in this campaign is the bridges project, and there’s only one major candidate who has the right idea. I can’t imagine anyone voting for anybody else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq4VN9z_Zuo

By: jake

jake — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:07:04 +0000

Bruce: Because so many people are after him as the front-runner. It did spread like wildfire.

Wikipedia… who knows? I bet it was an Allen supporter.

Coordinated? Hardly. I write something negative about Greg every five minutes. I’m just going through the 1,300+ pages of stuff I gave him a year ago.

I’m publishing photos tomorrow that will back my story up.

By: Bruce Maples

Bruce Maples — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:49:18 +0000

I’ve got a question.

If, indeed, your allegation is true (and I tend to believe it is, based on a little research of my own –but I want to do more) –

How has this spread SO FAST today? How was Fischer’s Wikipedia page edited the same day this story was published? Why do I get so many hits on this topic all seeming to have been published just today?

I’m not accusing anyone of anything yet, other than apparently being very efficient users of the internet. (Although I would like to know who edited that page just today.) But from the outside, this sure LOOKS coordinated.

Of course, all Fischer has to do to stop it is to show the award, the story, or some sort of verification. But the lack of verification isn’t the only thing looking fishy, at least to me.

Off to dig into the edit history at Wikipedia.