Fresh on the heels of Jerry’s Kids, LEO Weekly has another look at the Greg Fischer – Jackie Green election fraud situation that addresses three points: A Kentucky Newspaper only got half the story because it wants to protect its editorial investment, Green has a sudden case of amnesia and the potential legal ramifications:
Questions abound as to why the C-J didn’t include/know about the other emails. At best, it’s perhaps a consequence of “access journalism,” whereby reporters take the information espoused by high-level, hard-to-get-to sources as gospel simply for the sake of possessing that information; and at worst it smacks of the C-J’s editorial board seeking to protect its investment of a likely endorsement of Greg Fischer. When a politician like Green suffers from a sudden bout of Nixonian amnesia — going so far as to tell WHAS11′s Joe Arnold that he can’t even remember his wife’s fucking birthday — questions of impropriety take center stage in the rational voter’s mind.
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Despite Green’s budding case of Alzheimer’s, the emails obtained by LEO clearly show him telling his campaign staff that the Fischer campaign brought up Green’s playing a role in a Fischer-led metro government first — directly conflicting with the C-J’s half-baked account in which Green approaches Fischer. Makes you wonder… Did Green simply make this up? If not, why would a politician like Fischer with so much to lose actually engage in such communication with an opponent who, at best, possesses 3 percent of the vote?
However way you slice it, the C-J story provides Fischer with more than a modicum of cover, relegating Republican Hal Heiner’s response to one paragraph at the story’s end only after they’ve given Poynter and Fischer ample space to deny charges in a story that’s inaccurately reported from the outset.
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That we’re forced to write this editorial is the disturbing part, if only because the so-called paper-of-record has perpetuated a dangerous half-truth with onerous implications so close to Election Day.
Click here to read the entire editorial
This comes on the back of the Republican Party of Kentucky calling on Jack Conway to launch an investigation.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Still Haven't Picked. // Oct 20, 2010 at 5:19 pm
huh, I saw Green and Fischer at a coffee shop last week before the announcement. Clearly remember Green talking to patrons saying Greg wanted to meet with him…..
2 blowin' in the wind // Oct 20, 2010 at 6:04 pm
Isn’t there any one in the Fischer campaign who understands what you can and cannot do in an election? Are they all brain dead or are they so arrogant they think regulations don’t apply to them? The very lack of understanding about government rules and regulations–whether you agree with them or not–should disqualify him from being mayor. How many scandals would be letting ourselves in for with Fischer? There is a time to clean house and it appears more and more that the time is now.
3 jake // Oct 20, 2010 at 6:10 pm
This sort of stuff has been going on since 2008. Surely you folks aren’t surprised?
4 A Gay Democrat // Oct 20, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Fischer was anointed by the powers that be just as W. S. Milburn was anointed in 1961. After 41 years the Democratic leadership in Louisville has gotten very inbred. The ignorance and the arrogance has become intolerable. Simply look at the incompetent staff that Fischer has hired from the Abramson administration if you need to be convinced.
It is time for a change just as it was in 1961.
5 The Highlander // Oct 20, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Response to ‘blowin in the wind’ and ‘A Gay Democrat’ — Blowin’s comment is prescient and on target. Coupled with ‘A Gay Dem..’ leads to a single conclusion. Familarity breeds contempt [for everything including the law AND common sense.] What a shame for young Fischer. A probably decent guy, who’s so wet behind the ears that he allowed himself to be led by the nose by the likes of Larry Clark, Jerry Bronger (of Boptrot fame [unnoticed by the CJ], a whole flock of Abramson flacks, a sycophant former CJ reporter who adores himself almost as much as he does Happy Pants, a flock of Glenviewites and a 27 year old immigrant from Providence, Rhode Island. My what a campaign staff and what a shame — with all the folks that were available to seek advice about campaigning, Louisville, politics and governmental/public needs. WoW. It’s sad.
6 curtis morrison // Oct 21, 2010 at 1:57 am
Now, The Highlander: It’s really not cool calling a guy an “immigrant” because he has an Italian last name.
I very much want a change in leadership, but that doesn’t justify bigotry.
7 The Highlander // Oct 21, 2010 at 7:57 am
CM: I have no idea what his last name is. As far as I’m concerned it could be “Smith.” The point has been missed. Greg DIDN’T need immigrants from Rhode Island or Tennessee or WDC or Ohio. There are dozens of experienced people right here in Louisville who know and understand the political nuance of this community. When you have people in charge who DON’T have that experience OR who are dedicated to ‘continuing’ a corrupt administration’s control (in order to prevent an inside examination of — Cordish), then you have just the kind of problem Fischer NOW HAS. You all are too quick to assert political correctness. This IS NOT BIGOTRY. It’s incompetence that I observe.
8 blowin' in the wind // Oct 21, 2010 at 9:15 am
Right on Highlander! We have a very large problem in this community: it’s called integrity, where is it? Until we deal with it, nothing will convince the rest of the world that we are a great community to invest in. By the way, I have a question. Who or what could be said to be the heart of integrity in this community?
9 The Highlander // Oct 21, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Blowin’ — let’s see — certainly not the local university!!! Can’t think of any preachers, either. The Catholic church is still sufferin’ from its priests behavior around here. The school system is a shambles. Happy Pants is up to his tutu in Cordish problems IF Heiner wins. The CJ lost its credibility (amazingly) when the sold to USA Today and the Binghams got out (never thought I’d say that). Hey — you know what there ain’t no one. WoW!
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