| Mention of a public record makes an appearance in a campaign story! This week, the Michigan Democratic Party began running television ads attacking Bolger. Progress Michigan has released documents it found about liens placed against Bolger’s small business more than a decade ago and created a Facebook page chronicling what it calls the speaker's “history of fraud.”
Readers might be interested to know that the man running to represent them in the state House had tax liens from both the state and federal governments placed on his business for unpaid taxes. Might be, but if they are, they'll have to go somewhere else to find it. What MLive's reporter found to be really critical to share with readers were penetrating quotes like this. “We are focused on solving problems, they are focused on personal attacks," Bolger said. "They offer no solutions ... they offer only politics.”
and... “I have never taken voters for granted," Bolger said. "Every race I have fought, I have been dedicated to the voters in the district.”
You need a college degree to write articles with quotes like that. Update! ... As pathetic as that story is, the one that ran the morning in the Battle Creek Enquirer is even worse. Keep in mind that probably the paper of record for this district is the Enquirer. The story is MLive's story, run from the Associated Press wire. The Battle Creek Enquirer, the daily newspaper of closest physical approximation to this state House district, couldn't be bothered with its own story and just reran the competition's. This used to be a big no-no. Actually, in any field it's considered a no-no, since the point of competition is to out-do the other person and create a superior product. This story is further notable, because they addressed the sticky issue of Jase Bolger's tax liens by removing all mention of them. Pathetic. |
