Verdict: guilty as cancer
Rep. Steve Urquhart took part of his weekend to praise a Democrat -- Rep. Phil Riesen -- for his restraint in waiting until after the election to file an ethics complaint against another member, Rep. Mark Walker.
Urquhart's blog said in part, "We see here and in so many other contexts, the concept of innocent until proven guilty has no meaning in election cycles and the media."
The tone of the good representative's blog post was restrained, respectful and measured.
What a difference a couple of days can make.
Just two days earlier, Urquhart wrote a post that excoriated a trio of other lawmakers behind the ethics complaint.
He lashed the three -- Reps. Sheryl Allen, Steve Mascaro and Neil Hansen -- by using the tried and true technique of attributing criticisms to unnamed others.
"I candidly told them that they were perceived on both sides of the aisle to be grandstanding hacks who brought little of value to the process," he wrote in part, making the case that the ethics complaint was filed out of revenge.
But then he dropped the third person device and straight up said "It has long been my
perception that these 3 members are cancer...." He called them the C-word because he said they refused to work with any colleagues and were willing to do anything to attempt to be relevant.Wow. Strong words.
Did we miss the trial that surely took place before the good rep. delivered this smoking guilty verdict?
-- Dan Harrie
1:37 PM
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2 Comments:
Is that the same type of trial that your colleague, Paul Rolly, puts everything through before printing it. Or Warchol, Walsh, etc? Just wondering.
Check out the blog today, Dan. In terms of factual content and insight into legislative process, I'll put it up against any article the Trib has put out this year regarding the Legislature.
You have great writers. Let them dig on stories that might not fit the publisher's agenda.
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