We've got mail!
Someone CC'd us onto an e-mail to the Richmond Globe, which is running a silly article about how Gary Bell ruined the ruins that were Irma Anderson's mayorship and got Gayle McLaughlin elected.
Way to shill, Globe! Even if Irma has you in her pocket, it took Tazer reader "ixion2020" to spell it out to you...
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That's a nice article the Globe just ran on the front page of the Richmond edition. The only problem with it is that it came to the WRONG conclusion.
Gary Bell wasn't the end of African American political prominence in Richmond; Irma Anderson was. She's the least effective, most incompetent mayor that Richmond will ever know, and should NEVER have sought re-election. So selfish and convinced by the powerful that she stood a chance, it's Irma Anderson -- Richmond's bloodiest mayor -- who swept Gayle McLaughlin into power.
John Gioia said it best: "McLaughlin benefited from widespread discontent with Mayor Irma Anderson."
Just because there would have been two African American candidates does NOT mean that Irma Anderson was the one who should have remained in the race! Unfortunately, her pigheaded obstruction carried over from council meetings. She should have quit while she was behind and let someone qualified take over.
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BRRRR!!! That cat has it down COLD!
Way to shill, Globe! Even if Irma has you in her pocket, it took Tazer reader "ixion2020" to spell it out to you...
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That's a nice article the Globe just ran on the front page of the Richmond edition. The only problem with it is that it came to the WRONG conclusion.
Gary Bell wasn't the end of African American political prominence in Richmond; Irma Anderson was. She's the least effective, most incompetent mayor that Richmond will ever know, and should NEVER have sought re-election. So selfish and convinced by the powerful that she stood a chance, it's Irma Anderson -- Richmond's bloodiest mayor -- who swept Gayle McLaughlin into power.
John Gioia said it best: "McLaughlin benefited from widespread discontent with Mayor Irma Anderson."
Just because there would have been two African American candidates does NOT mean that Irma Anderson was the one who should have remained in the race! Unfortunately, her pigheaded obstruction carried over from council meetings. She should have quit while she was behind and let someone qualified take over.
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BRRRR!!! That cat has it down COLD!
posted by Plunda Claus @ 8:33 AM
4 Comments:
At November 17, 2006 11:50 AM,
Anonymous said…
The Globe is the ignorant lapdog of Anderson and her ilk. They're nothing more than the mouthpiece of the statusquo. If only Irma had realized her number was up, Richmond wouldn't be the mess it is.
At November 17, 2006 12:11 PM,
Anonymous said…
It is my opinion that the Globe is nothing more than a rag to line your birdcage to catch droppings! It is the most racist paper in Richmond today. It never has anything about the everyday people of Richmond.
Many African-American people including myself are offended, insulted and ashamed that this raggedy Black give away paper, claims to represent the Black community ! BS! These people are wannabe boojies who actually exploit and use us for their own gains. This paper does nothing more than use Race, Sex and Plantation Politics to divide our community. Whitmore and Boswell-Raines who put out this weekly rag should apologize to the community.
To use a newspaper to punish another person because another candidate ran against an incumbent is total bullshit. The Globe will always be remebered as the paper to serve Whitmore and Boswell-Raines Masters and to use the paper to keep dividing us Black folks even more.
This paper needs to keep their nose out of our business! Next time you go into one of our Black churches here in town, look at the stacks and stacks of the back editions of the Globe in the lobbies, that should tell you a lot right there. That we as an African-American community in Richmond are not reading your Master's propoganda!
At November 17, 2006 12:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
The Richmond edition of the Globe is the biggest joke in town! I mean it is really country, straight up country! I bet the owner and editor, wear big wide straw hats, wear blue jean coveralls with one strap over their shoulder and go barefoot all the time. I wonder if they will do a special edition of them in a local cattle call event! I know our country cousins here in the big city can do the job!
Be sure and write back y'all! Yep, the Globe is just really downhome.
At November 27, 2006 11:05 AM,
Anonymous said…
The Glob ran my letter under an assumed name. For the record my name isn't Tony Mendicino, but just for fun let's say it's Joey Numbers. ;-)
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