... particularly his newspaper's own.
A few days ago, I wrote (in italics):
Regarding the candidate debate forum article in which my credibility was called into question, it's near impossible to prove the content of 2-way private conversations unless there is a recording, but the Mirror should have had a sentence or two about what was in the e-mails between me and Mayor Ferrell's former campaign manager, which pretty much indicated there was at least a phone call (which seemed to be denied by Chris Truppner in the article). So, yes, I stretched a bit in saying that I could prove what was put to me as the probability of the mayor's support for my campaign, but I only meant that my contact with his aide-de-camp was actual, and from that people could separate for themselves the wheat from the chaff.
Now, thanks to Bob Roegner's article (just click on his name), the Federal Way Mirror has pretty much evened up the versions of events between me and the mayor's aide-de-camp, Chris Truppner, and softened up the "benefit of the doubt" that Truppner and the mayor had publicly enjoyed before this article. To be frank, I have no idea if the mayor had anything to do with the, now, obvious pie-in-the-sky overture that was floated to me last December, but I never really said that he, personally, did. I kind of agree with Roegner's speculative implication, that the mayor was taken by surprise by all this, but I also agree with Roegner, as he put it in so many words, that the mayor should have handled this whole situation more diplomatically and behind the scenes. I'm glad Roegner didn't wait until after the Primary was over (or all but) to write this article, as surprisingly the mainstream news media is showing more than a spark of fairness to insurgent, non-Establishment candidates for a change.
-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Federal Way City Council, Position 1
[Revised at 11:00 P.M., 7/17/15.]
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