Sep 8, 2009 7:50 PM
By Beth Young “If I wanted to challenge everyone on the petition, I would have to challenge them each separately,” said Ms. Jones of the other candidates. “When you gather petitions, the last thing you should do is stand outside the Post Office or stores because everybody will sign them, even if they can’t. That’s what they did, but I go door to door. They were very sloppy. One of signatures ran ‘where is Theresa Quigley’s name? She is running as an independent.’ They should have just crossed that one off. That’s a crazy signature. It should definitely not be included. They just did a very sloppy job. Carrying petitions is not a hard job.”
Dear Beth: Could you please contact the CSEA and see where they stand before you make the giant leap and imply that the local CSEA supports Zwirn? I am just curious and you are just not doing your job. Sorry.
Your observation above is valid, but I'm going to ask you politely to stop personally attacking my reporter in your comments. It's not the first time, and it's inappropriate.
You can feel free to criticize the paper and its coverage all you want, and ask valid questions about stories, but our policy doesn't allow personal attacks on anyone, including reporters, in comments, and I'm not going to continue to allow it.