Despite a worse-than-starvation-level ration of Emerald City red meat political news from the Utah print media this morning, we're delighted to now report that we've just now received (mercifully) some new 2011 Ogden Municipal Election material about which we believe we should devote a little Friday afternoon electronic ink. Specifically, we received a gracious email transmission from one of our 2011 Ogden City Muni Election mayoral candidates this a.m., which we'll post here as a followup to last Tuesday's WCF article, in which we announced that the "Godfrey Administration-controlled Channel 17 Plays it Fast and Loose With Upcoming Ogden Municipal Election Debates." Moving onward, here's a faithfully accurate WCF Archives cut/paste copy of this morning's most recent email missive, which we've entitled thusly:
We'll invite you all to lodge your own savvy comments in just a minute; but we'll offer a few of our own off-the-cuff WCF observations first:
1) First, the red flags:
"The show’s usual host and former KUTV Anchor and reporter Doug Jardine, will be prepared with generic questions for all candidates," (it says in passive voice.) Here's so here's our query: exactly WHO will prepare these "generic" questions? Boss Godfrey? Godfrey's Loyal "Sockpuppet" Brandon Stephenson? We'd advise all non-Godfreyite Mayoral candidates to firmly pin down Mr. Francis's answers to these questions before they commit to a venue in which the mendacious folks on the Ninth Floor, and Ogden's Slavish Godfrey Propaganda Channel, may or may not be working feverishly behind the scenes to hammer out what most people would label "loaded questions" into what Boss Godfrey, Bill Francis and Brandon Stephenson laughably call "generic questions" for these future events:
We also are planning for two debates following the primary election. These debates are planned for Sept 22 and Oct. 6. We hope you will mark these dates on your calendar" ... "blah, blah blah, etc."What seems obvious here is that this is could be another series of Boss Godfrey-controlled events wherein the departing Little Lord wishes to stamp his grubby stamp, even as Boss Godfrey prepares to let the Ogden City Hall Screen Door slap him hard on the backside one last time in January, and the little arrogant twit oozes off into "the private sector. Added bonus... notice that the language says "we are planning...." No indication at all is there, that any of the Mayoral candidates will be in any way involved in the "planning" process, right?
2) Secondly, the not-so-quite red banners:
And on the bright side, we find this encouraging language in the above-linked email text:
At present we plan on taping the show and replaying it up until the general election as well as making the complete production available on the internet, other than adding titles, an intro and music the program will be shown in its entirety and will be just under 90 min. "We hope all Mayoral candidates will have the good sense and prudence to get all this all in writing, not only from Bill Francis, but from Bill's "handler," Boss Godfrey, too.
