Just a couple of quick observations for now:
Former IotM Par Ridder seems to have the "W" touch. He seems to create neither fawning friends nor leave shining successes in his wake. While he was at the Pioneer Press, the paper was a long stretch of bad road. The signal was an occasionally appearing blip amid an ocean of grey noise. Ridder leaves to go to the Strib, and the PiPress starts to show signs of life, while the Strib starts to circle the drain.
While Par is still amid a trial about taking sensitive confidential information from the PiPress, he's also facing a rather united voice of discontent from the rank-and file of the Stib. Strib members of the Newspaper Guild will be voting tomorrow on whether to call for Ridder's resignation. While this is likely to be every bit as non-effective as a vote of no-confidence in Congress, it still shows that Ridder tends to foul up whatever sandbox in which he finds himself.
Reigning IotM Mark Olson, convicted criminal Republican state legislator, still hasn't resigned. The ignoranus does not intend to resign, either, as he made clear in his post-trial comments (here is a link to KARE-11's video coverage).
Olson goes further, well beyond the bounds of credulity already broken with his 'battered husband' defense from the trial. His position insists that the defense didn't amount to blaming the victim, which indicates that the Big Lake Republican is in pretty heavy denial. Olson's further statements about how he never wanted this to become public, and how this whole trial thingy really put a damper on his family, cement him up to his ass at the ugly far of of the denial swamp.
Apparently, the convicted criminal Republican feels that it was more wrong for the public to hold him accountable for his actions than it was for him to act criminally in the first place.
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