Yesterday’s D&C Story On the 26th CD — What A Joke!
I must admit, I got excited yesterday when I saw the story on the front page of the D&C on Chris Lee and the 26th CD. That was until I actually read the article.
With the Democratic Primary less than two weeks away, we have commented on how bad their coverage has been. At least 150,000 people in Monroe County live in that district, but if you want to know what’s going on, you have to read the Buffalo News.
Jack Davis (or that Davis Kid as Congresswoman Slaughter has been overheard calling him) makes a comment about how we are on the verge of a civil war because of all the Mexicans living in this country and no one in Monroe County knows about it. Jon Powers was arrested your years ago for an obscenity laden tirade against a police officer and there are all kinds of questions about the centerpiece of his experience, his resume building War Kids Relief that provided him with more money than the Iraqi children Jon was so concerned about and you didn’t read about any of these things in the D&C.
But the professional team over at the D&C were able to cover the non-story of Chris Lee’s father selling the family business. From the D&C:
The company Lee helped manage and his father founded was sold for $395 million less than a year after the buyer, an international conglomerate, pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to sensitive defense technology that had been sent to China, Britain, Singapore and Japan. The conglomerate, ITT, also paid $100 million in fines.
The Lee campaign maintains that International Motion Control, an engineering and technology company founded by Patrick Lee, was sold to a division of ITT that was separate from ITT’s defense operations, which incurred the charges and fines.
And that low life John Gerkin, he’s the guy who took money from Jack Davis 2 years ago and trashes him all the time — well now he’s taking money from Jon Powers — can’t buy his loyalty or services, look at what he had to say:
“As a combat veteran, Jon Powers is deeply troubled by anyone who profited from a company that gave our national security secrets to the Chinese,” said John Gerken, Powers’ campaign manager.
What about the people your boy duped out of all that money — how do you feel about them? All that money for some soccer balls and backbacks — I know Jon needed to make a living but come on!
Republican Chairman Bill Reilich summed it all up very nicely:
Monroe County Republican Chairman Bill Reilich said if this is the worst Lee’s political enemies could come up with, he feels good about Lee’s chances in November.
“This to me is the biggest story of nothing I’ve ever seen,” Reilich said.
Welcome to political life Mr. Lee. That story was non-sense and a geat example of how bad Rochester’s daily newspaper is on reporting information. If your interested in social networking they are the place to go to though.
He’s to hoping that Jill Tereri and the D&C go back to sleep and ignore this race again. We’ll do our best to pick up the slack!
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Well said. An absolute joke that the D&C would choose to cover this and completely ignore some bona fide scandals on the part of the democrat candidates in the 26th.
Worst. Paper. Ever.