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Originally posted by tetris


That doesn’t mean that The Advocate let up on “Stat” Smith; they are already predicting that he will lose his State Representative’s seat next year. And just to prove that politics make strange bedfellows, one of the people that they are pushing to take on Smith is Robert Van Campen. In the recent past at least, Van Campen has not been an Advocate favorite. But in this week’s Sounds of Everett piece about Smith, they had nothing but nice things to say about Van Campen. It’s kind of funny too since, in an earlier piece in the same column, they gave Van Campen a “shot”. That piece gave The Advocate’s interpretation of the Mayor’s “vote of confidence” and they used Van Campen’s vote total last Tuesday as a basis of comparison even though he wasn’t the unopposed Alderman with the highest vote total. Is there more of a motive behind pushing Van Campen as a Smith opponent other than their hatred for Stat?



I noticed that both of these press releases contained grammar and/or spelling errors. For example, there’s no need to use both “$” and “dollars” to describe a dollar amount. And when the same errors appear in every paper, you just can’t blame the papers either. But let’s not let the papers off the hook. How can any of them get the names of political candidates wrong after the election is over? To make it worse, they were incumbents too. Factual errors get me too; weren’t Stat and Stephanie Smith both on the Common Council at the same time during her first term? I know we all make these kinds of mistakes but shouldn’t the papers be held to a higher standard?

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