Eric Cameron Forbes, Why the Prickish Shenanigans?
Submitted by Admin on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 2:05pm.
From the Other Paper:
An alternative to personally attacking Frankie Coleman would be to personally attack Mike Coleman – and suggest that bad behavior runs in the family.
Todd’s political director, Eric Forbes, might have had such a strategy in mind when he requested a copy of a nightlife column from The Other Paper last week. In an e-mail to TOP from his personal account, Forbes requested pieces that mentioned “how various night spots in (the) city such as the Browntone and Due Amici have named drinks after Mayor Mike Coleman.”
Forbes said in a subsequent e-mail that “my request was personal,” noting that it was not sent from his campaign account. He said he did not seek out the information on behalf of the Todd campaign.
BULLSHIT! You're the political director for a mayoral campaign...everything you do is for Todd. If you Tie your shoes wrong, it's Todd's fault. First rule of campaigns - anything you do while on a campaign can, and most likely will, be applied to your candidate. Eric knows this, Todd knows this, hell, everyone within a 5 mile radius of Broad & High knows this...except apparently Dan Williamson.
The rest of Williamson's article was BS. While he got around to alluding to the fact that our friends on the right have been coordinating with the Todd campaign in an official role, he defended them and called the charge overblow. Apparently he didn't take the time to listen to my post where Eric claims Naugle as a campaign advisor. Williamson's post is so bogus, I'm not going to even post the scan of it I have. The only thing I gleamed from it is what a prick this Eric kid is.
Since Eric didn't get the seriousness of my vague warning to the Todd campaign the other day, which I emailed to Eric at that same personal email address he used to contact Williamson, we're going to play a game. I'm going to give the Todd campaign some lifelines. When the campaign decides to make a dick move, I'm going to take a lifeline away. Cause I'm a swell guy, I'm starting them with four lifelines - one of which they've used today.
I really don't want to have to drop my electoral surprise. And honestly, Eric, Todd, it's your decision. Shape up, or deal with the consequences.
A little humor
Submitted by Administrator on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 3:13pm.
Can go a long way Len. I'm giving the Todd campaign the chance to alter their ways, and raise their campaign out of the gutter. I think the campaign should make this choice without a blog going after them the way in which "the surprise" to which I allude would entail. If they don't understand at this point that I'm serious - then Todd should fire his staff and sue for malpractice.
If Issue X is relevant...
...to Mr. Todd's fitness for the job to which he has applied, then out with it because the voters have a right to know. If Issue X is not relevant to Mr. Todd's fitness for the job to which he has applied, then drop this ethically questionable nonsense and move on. There's evidently no pledge of confidentiality involved, otherwise you would have never mentioned the nebulous Issue X in the first place, right?
This isn't "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" or "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader," it's a mayoral race in Ohio's capital city. Trivializing the race like this serves no one's best interests where the administration of such a major metropolis is involved.