I shared a moment with Mark Naymik at the governor’s visit to Tremont Electric on Monday. Like lost lovers our eyes met, across a room crowded with TV cameras, as Naymik clutched his premium front row spot in the hastily arranged press seating, right in front of the podium. He smiled, in that “you mother [...]
Saturday, August 22, 2009
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I wonder if this has anything to do with yesterday’s news. Ted Wendling — Deputy Inspector General Ted Wendling is originally from Detroit, Michigan. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, where he obtained a B.A. in English literature. Before joining the Inspector General’s Office in March 2007, Mr. Wendling was a reporter in Ohio [...]
Friday, August 21, 2009
Mark Naymik, who is in the position to prove or disprove whether or not the Ohio Tax Department illegally leaked tax information to him, gets off the hook, courtesy of the Ohio Inspector General, then does his victory lap, duplicitously, as usual. While the cancellation notice – issued by the Secretary of State’s office is a [...]
Friday, August 21, 2009
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Lotta blowback from the ODP and Strickland apologists for yesterday’s video. Which is funny, given the video I could have shot if Ted didn’t make news by disputing the ODB account of Jennifer Garrison’s racist comment to Subodh Chandra. You’ll notice at the end of the interview, Ted hustles me off so he can talk to [...]
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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The Plain Dealer really is getting too easy to mock. Brent Larkin tip toes into the Fisher-Brunner primary, writing what we all know already (that is, if you read blogs). That’s not the news. The first news is that Larkin totally misrepresents the tax snooping story. Fisher denies leaking any damaging information and dismisses suggestions from [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
Steve Koff covers a controversy his own newspaper is smack in the middle of, with no irony whatsoever. Asked if the campaign is suggesting that Fisher was behind improper snooping and release of tax information, Brunner campaign spokeswoman Pia Brady said, “The campaign is not suggesting anything one way or another.” But noting that the tax information [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Well, you didn’t expect anything less, did you? I asked this repeatedly in Ted Diadiun’s “chat” today. Will the PD hire a lawyer to represent Mark Naymik in the Ohio Inspector General investigation regarding tax snooping into Rick Brunner, or will Naymik hire his own attorney? No response. Shocking, I know.
Monday, July 13, 2009
It’s hard to imagine a more sad display of newspapers’ demise than today’s sitdown at the PD between Ted Diadiun and John Kroll, wherein they traffic whore Diadiun’s ignorance further. Substantively, it’s the same crap. Diadiun and Kroll repeatedly claim they don’t speak for the paper. The “reader rep” doesn’t speak for the paper? Who [...]
Friday, July 10, 2009
Modern updates his piece. [UPDATE:] Although I cannot get anyone to go on the record or even on background, I have been given consent by a source I’ve been able to rely on in the past and have no reason to doubt in this matter that Mark Naymik has, in fact, personally admitted that he received [...]
Friday, July 10, 2009
I’ve been waiting for an excuse to write this post for a long time. Lee Fisher subcontracting his hit jobs to Mark Naymik is the perfect opportunity. I say, make it clear and transparent. Sure, you lose all journalistic credibility becoming the hatchet man for a political figure you’re supposed to be a watchdog against, but [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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