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TRIB WATCH NOVEMBER 2, 2007
Our Letter to the Editor -- Unedited (Episode 2)
Again, the Trib sanitizes our efforts to
alert voters to the truth. In clarifying the intentional
misrepresentations of this newspaper, we also pointed out many
glaring elements of one of our challengers' finance reports. Of
course, the Trib should have known this had their reporters
actually done any research. And of course, the Trib omitted
these facts when we brought it to the paper's attention.
So, again, for the benefit of all, the
unedited version of the letter we sent to the Tribune-Review.
Dear Editor:
Your recent article regarding campaign funds for
commissioner candidates was, at best, intellectually dishonest
or, more likely, intentionally misleading. First, every dollar
we have raised for Tom Balya's campaign has been 100 percent
legal and in accordance with campaign finance laws. Second, the
vast majority of our contributions are small donations from
local citizens.
The Trib goes out of its way to quote the
unfounded allegations of a man who is a longtime Republican
activist, and the benefactor of one Republican commissioner
candidate. Your readers are supposed to believe this puppet is
somehow credible?
A true analysis of recent
campaign filings would have revealed this same Republican
candidate accepted a contribution from a corporation, which is
illegal (page 24). She also received an overwhelming number of
contributions -- totaling thousands of dollars -- from sources
outside the county (pages 19-32), including right-wing interest
groups (page 19).
She also has an
established pattern of accepting contributions from vendors who
do business with Hempfield Township.
Only this blindly partisan paper could twist Tom
Balya's widespread support into something so negative. Of
course, these funds are sorely needed to confront the distorted
coverage of county government spewed from the Trib.
Ted Kopas
Treasurer, Balya for Commissioner Committee
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