Weller?s campaign manager, Steve Shearer, said Thursday Smith may have served as the congressman?s campaign chairman during Weller?s re-election announcement in Joliet on Dec. 8, 2005.
?But, I think Mr. Weller may have just said Smith was the campaign chairman,? Shearer noted. ?He hasn?t said anything about it since then, and Mr. Smith has not had a role in the congressman?s campaign.?
Shearer said Smith was master of ceremonies at Weller?s announcement event.
?Mr. Weller had a couple of mayors there. Mayor Art Schultz of Joliet couldn?t speak well, and so the congressman needed another local mayor and Mr. Smith was there,? said Shearer.
I’m sure Mayor Schultz would love to know that Weller and/or his toadies consider him to bumbling a speaker to introduce the congressman at a campaign event.
that’s “too” bumbling a speaker…
You?re right Buck. I?m sure that?s exactly what Shearer meant. Obviously the only other explanation (that, because of a cold or sore throat, the Mayor ?couldn?t speak well? that day?) is simply too preposterous to even consider.
Give me a break.
“Give me a break.”
If you’re so incensed by a tongue-in-cheek remark offered in response to a half-truth given in an attempt to over-explain Weller’s relationship with an alleged liar, embezzler, and man-about-town, then you need the break.
It’s not about being “incensed,” it’s just about setting the record straight. In blogging, it’s hard to tell who’s being tongue-in-cheek and who’s out for blood. Similarly, it’s hard to tell who’s really getting worked up over something and who’s just really sardonic.