Mr. Purple and censorship, a real sad sack.

I was alerted by a reader that my name was once again contained in a post at the self-proclaimed  "purple" blog so I wandered over there and checked it out.  What I read was another screed in a series of screeds by the former Union editor about what he considers the state of our county demographics and the Union's policies regarding opinions.

It is clear to me after many posts by the 'purple' fellow that he is a demagogue and censorship of opinions he doesn't like are his game.  He attacked the Union relentlessly when he left their employ and was a constant complainer of the Jeff Ackerman reign as publisher.  Of course we all knew it was "sour grapes".  Why did the 'purple" fellow leave?  Was he given his walking papers by Ackerman?  Did he leave of his own choosing?  Was his tenure at the paper short because he did not fit into the community?  Maybe he just didn't have the personality to get along with others?

 Who the heck knows?  But one thing is clear to the community, he is holding a grudge about his unemployment and the community is viewing him as a non-important part of the discourse because of his apparent grudge.  If you are not at the Union because of cause, then tell us all so we can better understand your anger.  Maybe we would give you a break when discussing the gossip.  But alas, "Mr. Purple" has not given the community his side of his departure so the gossip rages on.

Now once again he tells us all on his blog (I get more hits and comments on mine it appears) the Union is making a mistake by allowing those wascally conservatives to post a Opinion that they just are not reflecting the political and demographic makeup of Nevada County.  Huh?  His attack on the right, and usually it is on George Rebane and Russ Steele and moi, are specious and unAmerican.  We have yet to ever write a similar story about him or his five or six commenter's.  We have yet to say anything similar about the leftwing nut Ron Lowe's constant screeds against us and conservatives posted in the Union.  We on the right are not afraid of "speech".  We say more speech is our goal, whether left or right.

Mr. "purple" says the Union should not allow Rebane and other like minded people to post opinions in the paper.  He cites the breakout of voters in the First Supervisorial District as a reason the Union should boot Rebane.  Yet he never ever says the same thing about a democrat, a leftwingnut or an independent leaning lefty yet he claims to be a "middle of the road" personality.  A total crock of course.  The proof is there in every post criticizing the right.  The purple fellow is a liberal and for some reason he is embarrassed to admit it.

So it appears the grudge goes on with the Union and its owners Swift and even departed publisher Jeff Ackerman.  I recommend he seek some counseling about his grudge and his bitterness because he has made his opinions about the community he moved to irrelevant.  The seething inside about his departure from the Union needs to be resolved and fixed so his opinions can be viewed with a bit of credibility.  But maybe he is unable to to come to grips with his problems so we will get to read forever more his bitter screeds about his own county and its newspaper.  Too bad.