Endorsements, Endorsements... and More Endorsements

Including a stunning mayoral endorsement from the Standard-Examiner

It's all official now gentle readers. The Standard-Examiner's mayoral candidate endorsement is out, right there on their editorial page. Our hometown newspaper... the Official Boss Godfrey House Propaganda Organ... has endorsed...

Boss Godfrey.

Surprise of surprises, eh?

We won't go into a laborious discussion about this ho-hum development, except to say this: The Standard-Examiner has devoted much editorial ink to the subject of Boss Godfrey's pathological devotion to government secrecy over the years. The Std-Ex editors have griped endlessly and publicly about the hassle of obtaining information by GRAMA request after GRAMA request. From the Standard-Examiner's perspective, prying even the simplest bits of information from Boss Godfrey's administration is and has been the journalistic equivalent of "pulling teeth." Thus we say, with a slight degree of "snark," that this must be the way the Std-Ex likes it.

This morning we'll stay on the topic of candidate endorsements, for a few more paragraphs at least. Inasmuch as the Std-Ex has put in its two cents, we'll add a little spare change of our own. And it's in that connection that we link the following three items, reader submissions and contributions from a few our gentle readers and fellow Emerald City lumpencitizens:

First we'll put the spotlight on a contribution from gentle reader Kathy Gambles. This short piece fits into the category of letters the Std-Ex declined to print.

Our second featured endorsement comes from Ogden City Councilwoman Dorrene Jeske. The Std-Ex editors wouldn't print this one either, although a little birdy told us that it may yet be coming up on the Standard-Examiner pages -- as a paid ad.

And finally, we'll highlight a blockbuster endorsement from Sonja Jorgenson, who granted us permission just this morning to publish a letter that she's been informally circulating in her east bench neigborhood for the past several days. For an insider's glimpse of the truly cold-hearted and sinister nature of our sitting incumbent mayor and his administration team, we know none of you will want to miss this one.

That's it for the moment, gentle readers, although we do intend to post another blockbuster revelation later this afternoon.

Comments, anyone?

Let the fun begin.