The 2007 Mayoral Election Campaign Slimes Up - Updated

Boss Godfrey's political slime machine oozes on

In an apparent portent of things to come, as Emerald City lurches toward the 2007 municipal elections, we find two more pro-Godfrey slime pieces in this morning's Standard-Examiner.

In this front-page Ace Reporter Schwebke story, another slavish Godfrey underling unleashes some serious accusations:

OGDEN — A second highranking manager in the Ogden city administration says he was asked to support a mayoral bid by City Council Chairman Jesse Garcia and feared he could be fired under a new administration if he declined.

Risk Management Manager Ron Ball made the claim in a memo sent to the city council Thursday.

The accusation is "bribery," to be specific. That's right. The most mild-mannered and gentle soul on the entire city council is being accused, on purely hearsay evidence, of behaving like an evil Godfreyite. One of our gentle readers has provided us a copy of the above referenced memo; and we duly link it here, for our readers' amazement.

And then at the top of Std-Ex section "C" we get the latest low-down on Business Development Manager Scott Brown, who continues to demonstrate symptoms of total melt-down. Scott has how called the cops, according to this morning's story. No; we are not making this up.

We'll skip the microanalysis and put this article up on today's WCF front page right now, as a kick-off to a weekend open thread. Our protective HAZ-"MATT" anti-slime suit is still at the cleaners; and we don't want to get Godfrey Goo all over us.

Perhaps our gentle readers will be able to explain the true meaning of all this.

Update 3/10/07 4:45 p.m. MT: Our insider snitch at city hall confirms the predictions of yesterday's Standard-Examiner editorial, and furnishes us the latest heretofore-secret design photos of Chris Peterson's most recently pared-down urban Whac-a-Mol Bike-ola:


"Wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Update 3/12/07 8:57 p.m. MT: Former Emerald City Human Resources Director Dean Martinez forwards to us a letter transmitted to Scott Schwebke on March 11, responding to the series of recent Standard-Examiner articles slamming Councilman Garcia and others. We provide our readers an archived copy here, per Mr. Martinez's request.