Suicide note!

I thought you would find it amusing that a city manager referred yesterday to my letter to the editor (in the Spotlight and the Chronicle) as a "suicide note!"

Time will tell, I expect!

In the meantime, I urge you to read yesterday's Spotlight. (The Chronicle, in its infinite wisdom, seems to have ignored--completely--the story of Morten/Barlow v Gump that was top-of-the-front-page news to the Spotlight!)

Both the front page article and the editor's letter are good. Very good: No justice served ‘til Gump is, by Kelly Moyer (on the front page), and the editorial, Defamation suits stink of SLAPP. (Find a link to the Spotlight in the right hand column on this page under LINKS TO SOURCES.)

The coverage by the Spotlight throughout this recall effort has been good, as was their interview with Randy Peterson some months ago that apparently prompted the City Council, at Phil Barlow's urging, to change the city's "paper of record" to the Chronicle. While that cannot be proved, of course, the timing was precise and no amount of denial on anyone's part works for me.

Much like the soon-to-be-heard, I'm sure, denial that Jim Huffman is such a sloppy attorney that he just made inconvenient errors in his court filing in the Morten/Barlow SLAPP suit!

A nice thing about that sloppy paperwork and Huffman's jittery dancing around in court (wailing about the St. Helens City Recorder being in the audience, really): I can't imagine anyone wanting to hire him for anything! I'd be too afraid he'd screw it up.