To all you reporters out there reading this, let’s get something clear: I’m not a source for your story.
So stop sending me e-mails asking me be your primary source on the slow motion train-wreck called “The West Virginia Supreme Court.”
If you think there’s a story to be told about the Supreme Court, by all means, write your story. Stop expecting me to do your legwork and tell you my sources. Many of these people are good people and good friends, and I’m not about to tell you who they are.
I’ll tell you what I’ve already told other reporters: talk to people at the Court. Bypass anybody with their name on a piece of letterhead — they’ve got an agenda. They’ll just feed you a line of crap.
Talk to the people who actually do the work there. The people who answer the phones, run the copy machines, push the paper from office to office. The bureaucrats, the servant-types who really do the work but who feel like they are ignored by the powers-that-be. Listen to them. Take them out, buy them a beer.
Believe me, I’m just the messenger. The people who work for the Court are the ones telling stories, stories that are doozies.
These people talk if you just ask them to. They see what goes on in government; they just never get a chance to tell their story. Of course, you should also expect them to be looking over their shoulders the whole time they are talking. Court employees are terrified of what will happen if Spike Maynard gets re-elected.
But that’s a whole other story.
In the meantime, leave me alone.
February 27, 2008 at 9:17 am
“Court employees are terrified of what will happen if Spike Maynard gets re-elected.” – BULLSHIT
February 28, 2008 at 11:34 am
Reporters are lazy, Bo. You know this. You just take it for granted since they are liberal too. I am glad that you are getting a chance to find this out for yourself.
And Spike Maynard will be re-elected. He has support from both ends of the political spectrum and from every corner of the state. Normal people don’t give a shit about your stolen photographs. People in white houses want good jobs and want to be able to go to church with their families. Those of you who worship government instead of God wouldn’t know anything about that though, which is why you all lost the last court election.
Hopefully, Menis will be smart enough not to waste his time and money on an ill-fated campaign. Mike Plante will take his money and frivolously spend it though, just like he did with Humphreys, if Menis is dumb enough to give it to him. Nice work, if you can get it. If Menis wastes enough, then maybe Plante will not have to carry himself over to the capitol for $300 a day.
February 28, 2008 at 10:24 pm
Trodd:
One reporter was nice enough to tell me that Spike is polling a distant THIRD among the candidates. There are only two seats up for election. That means he isn’t going to win.
And people on the campaign trail keep telling me that Spike is — to use their phrase — “toast.”
So no, I guess God-fearing people living in white houses DON’T want a Supreme Court justice who vacations on the Riviera with a litigant, and gambles using chips given to him by the litigant as a “gift.”
March 3, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Why is my campaign manager Steve Canterbury writing under the name Trodd? He really needs to spend more time working on my campaign and less time posting comments from his statehouse desk.
Bo, the next time he posts something, tell him to get his ass back to work.
Spike
March 4, 2008 at 10:54 am
I have actually been busy trying to help Crabtree with another heist: this time down in Jefferson. Hopefully it will be a big score and we can make sure to get plenty of money to Mike Plante so that he can pocket most of it and spend a little for Menis. It doesn’t look like Menis is actually going to be spending much of his own money, so it is going to need to come from somewhere.
March 4, 2008 at 4:15 pm
What the hell does that mean?
March 4, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Trodd/Steve:
Who is Mike Plante? That’s the second time you’ve mentioned him. Why do you have such a hard-on for him? I mean, considering your earlier comment about Larry Messina’s balls, I’m beginning to think you’ve got some suppressed sexual tension that my hetrosexual blog is not designed to relieve.
March 4, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Oh, one more thing, Trodd.
Spike says get your ass back to work Steve.
March 5, 2008 at 11:01 am
I thought all of you liberals were supposed to love faggotry.
And I guess you conveniently forgot that two of Starcher’s law clerks were convicted felons. It is also highly unlikely that do not know who is helping run Menis Ketchum’s campaign.
Ketchum is a liar. Plante is a thief. You are a little bitch for not just going public with all of the allegations that you make on your little blog.
If you really are a lawyer, then I hope someone files ethics violations against you for making false statements about a candidate for a judicial election. You probably don’t give a shit about ethics though if it is for a liberal cause.
March 5, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Trodd/Steve:
Who said I was a liberal?
Are you calling me a liberal because you believe that only liberals oppose corruption? Do you believe that the only just judiciary is a bought-and-paid-for corrupt judiciary, full of judges who rule for the highest bidder?
Of course you are. That’s exactly what you’re saying.
Let’s get something clear, Steve. Steverino. Steverinski. Steve-O. S.C. I don’t know Ketchum, I don’t know Plante, I don’t know Starcher. I don’t know half of what you’re ranting about.
What I do know is three things. (1) You can’t write for squat. I’ve tried to read your stuff. Really, your writing sucks. You’re a horrible communicator. Your comments on this blog prove it.
(2) Everything I’ve written is a fact. You want to be a man and file an ethics complaint, go for it. It isn’t unethical, nor is it actionable, for a lawyer to tell the truth.
(3) Your obsession with Menis Ketchum — at the same time you avoid any mention of Spike Maynard’s misdeeds — proves you anti-democratic types are terrified that Ketchum is going to win.
Now, you’ve said some nasty things. Foul things. But I’m going to let you be a man, do the right thing, and apologize to Ketchum and Plant and me for your impulsive statements.
And if you choose not to apologize . . . then I’ll tell everybody who I think you are. Clear and Luminous about that Steve?
Bo
March 5, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Oh, yeah, almost forgot.
Spike says, “Steve, get your ass back to work.”
March 27, 2008 at 3:41 am
What. Something is going to change? Heck no. Stop trying already.