Ihookum,

Thanks for the advice! I have written numerous letters to our local joke of a paper "the Chronicle" I understand what you are saying. I always word count my letters before I send them in so that the editor can't refuse them for that reason. I have taken both the publisher and his pet editor, Larry Zander on several times. Even got them to do a small correction once about an article they had published about a local fishing group that I helped form. From that day on, the editor had declared "war" against me. The Chronicle is truly a "good old boy" paper.

One day I wrote an article about our local school levy and it was supported completely by facts. My article was so damaging, that the editor had to fax a copy to the school superintendent for a rebuttal before he would even publish my letter to the editor. When I confronted the editor and publisher with the facts, the Publisher denied it and told me that his editor would never do that because that would be unethical and that the editor just flat didn't do it, and he did not believe a single word that I had said. I couldn't prove right then, but shortly afterwards when I was doing a Public Discloser request at our local school office, I found a secret internal letter called the "grapevine" I also found the copy of my letter that was faxed to the superintendent the same day that I had faxed my letter to Zander. It even had Larry Zander personal note stamp and Zander's hand written initials written right on it!

Needless to say, the Chronicle's Editor and Publisher were caught in the middle of their own lies and I had to let them know so. So you see, the editor of the Chronicle has no lost love for me. Oh, did I mention that his kids were in the same school that my levy letter was addressing. Who ever said that the "good old boys" aren't still alive and well?