Bob Trane suing The Somerville Journal

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

A friend e-mailed me this. It seems rather odd and childish. Bob Trane is suing the Somerville Journal over a cartoon? In my opinion, it does not send a good message about Trane, frankly. Comments?

Bob Trane suing The Somerville Journal

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Two-pronged fork

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Sounds like Bob's got a couple of different issues.

One, with CNC (the Journal's parent company) for mistakenly running the ad in the Cambridge Chronicle.

Two, with the Journal, for running the political comic in question. This is deliciously ironic. For someone who's been riding the dogsled of attack dogs known as the Somerville News as long as Trane has, for him to get this thin-skinned over a cartoon?

Jesus Christ, Bob, you're running *the* most ignoble campaign I've seen in local politics in the 17 years I've lived in Somervillle, and that includes Vinnie Ciampa's failure to denounce anti-homosexual fliers supporting him four years ago. This is embarassing.

Re: Two-pronged fork

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I agree, the Somerville News has been trashing Sciortino and publishing pro-Trane propaganda for a long time. They would not call themselves homophobes, but it certainly smells like that.

Re: Two-pronged fork

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

One of my personal favorites was the column denouncing Carl as "xenophobic". Excuse me?

Re: Two-pronged fork

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

What? Xenophobic? Based on what evidence?

Re: Two-pronged fork

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

Evidence? We don't need no stinking evidence!

http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/11/the-view-from-p.html

This is textbook News opinion writing here, but there are loads of bonus features: check out James Norton's response to Sciortino (who actually responded to this nonsense). There's also discussion of Heller's mysterious "orange flyer" allegedly smearing Trane - but no one actually could directly quote from it. the only thing that's missing is a post from the legendary Cambriville personality Dr. Mrs. McCarthy.

Re: Two-pronged fork

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

Pathetic. The question I have is: why? What can Trane do for the Somerville News clan? It must have something with to do with real estate in Somerville. But what exactly?