October 16, 2009 No comments








Lakeland FL Election: Candidate Residency Matters

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Phillip Walker and Ricky Shirah are free to claim residence wherever they like. Two weeks from Tuesday, it will up to the voters to place them where they belong.

via Lakeland Election: Candidate Residency Matters | theledger.com | The Ledger | Lakeland, FL.

I ask you, is it a prerequisite that people seeking public office be liars?

“Uh, my permanent residence is here, where I get all my mail and homestead exemption.”

“So you live outside the area you want to serve.”

“Uh, well, I actually live over here. Uh….”

“We’ve got all this evidence that points to you not living there.”

“Uh… uh…”

Stay tuned till next week when we see what else these dolts can lie to us about.

Seriously, why won’t people with scruples run for public office? That sounds like a man-on-the-street opinion poll project.

h/t: Chuck Welch

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September 25, 2009 No comments








Chuck Welch Does What All Good Investigative Reporters Should

Wednesday night I published an article on Lakeland Local. I was told an office had discovered an advertisement that made it appear a candidate for Lakeland City Commission had his home for sale. On Thursday, the candidate objected to the article. I asked for answers or comment from the candidate. Though I was confident in the accuracy of the article, I offered to hold the article from display while he readied a response. I asked for a response by an 8am deadline.

I received no return calls or emails. I reinstated the article this morning.

The following is for readers who would like to see the process both before and after publication:

via Lakeland Local News and Info from Lakeland Florida » Blog Archive » Final Word on This Ol’ House.

Chuck refuses to get punked by a politician and brings the honor back to reporting. That’s not to say that reporters aren’t honorable as a rule, but there have been too many reporters throwing out fluff and not bringing the public enough substantial reporting. By explaining the processes he used to bring the article to us, he gives the reader a full version of events and of his reporting — and basically makes James Goetz show us how much of  a useless fool he really is. If he’s this unresponsive to a reporter about a serious issue, we can expect him to be far less responsive to the general public if he gets elected.

It’s reporting like this that makes or breaks political campaigns and careers, and Chuck Welch puts his community above the politics. Well done, Chuck.

Big ups to LakelandLocal.com.

Update 20091014: Has Goetz resigned the campaign?

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July 8, 2009 No comments





Worst Songs – #83

Song Name: Hot Child In The city
Song Artist: Nick Gilder
Song:

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Does The Donk Approve? Yes, The Donk does approve. It’s catchy, I can hear it in my head without the song playing… makes you want to walk like a Jet in West Side Story. (Thanks to Chuck Welch for this one!)
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March 16, 2009 2 Comments


Lakeland Local Makes a Video Report | Lakeland Local

Would you like to see more video short reports on Lakeland Local?

Lakeland Local Makes a Video Report | Lakeland Local.

Chuck Welch gives a hat tip to The Donk in this post, so holla at your boy, yo!  :>

And yes, as long as the video is relevant to a story, then more video would be a good idea. Just be sure to keep backups, as it’s more than likely that — if you use a service like YouTube to store and embed your videos — sometime in the future that service will be gone.

Also, I got the link to Xtranormal.com from Consumerist.com, so just keeping the link-love going.

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