Can't somebody rustle up a wad of leftover soft money to help Jason
Roe fund his off-season smear campaign against Will Rogers, timed
perfectly to hit moments before the changing of the guard at the
News-Press?
C'mon! Just a little extra cash would allow Roe to saturate the
airwaves with a grainy montage of Rogers' rejected screen tests, deftly
edited together with ominous voiceovers and creepy-jeepy music.
Readers of this newspaper might not always agree with columnist Rogers
and his criticisms of Rogan, but they can't exclusively blame the
columnist for exposing the man behind the curtain. Ironically, he shares
that responsibility with campaign manager Roe himself, whose
manipulative, transparent and odious campaign tactics would lead any
careful observer to question what was behind that very same curtain.
Turn it off, Jason. Even if Will Rogers did redirect his career to
become a community columnist based on the results of a journalistic
competition, Rogers wasn't the only winner. The people of Glendale won,
too.
RICHARD LIPPMAN
Glendale
