Don’t Bother with Laesch. Really. Don’t.
I won’t link to some of what I can’t confirm, but I can confirm he’s an idiot of the first order. One is his bizarre bit on the blogs a while back. Two, will be public soon enough. Three-Seven may or may not come out.
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I read this blog all the time, as a St Louis native living in Kendall, your one of my favorites.
But, I don’t get the Laesch bashing. We see it up here within a small circle of people, but I know these divisive words aren’t coming from the any of the hard working men & women like me who want to see Democrats elected. We volunteer our money and time to advance the Dem cause, and right now, that’s via Laesch, our candidate. He won and we are Party people.
I think John has made mistakes sure, and I’ve told him so. But any success he enjoys this year will pay dividends for the Democratic Party up here for a long time.
If there is dirt, let it come out. I’m just tired of the ananomous sniping and I hope you’ll reconsider your complete write-off of John Laesch.
Rob Reed
Arch, I sorta feel like if you’re going to warn us about dirt you have an obligation to put it on the table.
I agree with Carl. It is really annoying and condescending that there are people around who keep saying “Trust me, there is seriously bad stuff here,” but that never tell us what that is. If there’s something there, put it out there. Let the public (and more specifically the politically-engaged and saavy public that reads you) know.
Actually, the first incident on the blogs was public, and I just posted some hysterical audio of the guy. He’s a crappy candidate and that should have been obvious well before I posted anything.
I agree that the blog incident was a big distraction. What did he hope to accomplish by attacking a blogger who primarily criticized Hastert but also criticized Laesch?
This cast some doubt on his judgment. But we elect a bunch of people who make bad decisions occasionally.
The other allegations about Laesch–the ones cited by a couple anti-Laesch bloggers–involve incidents that either are or aren’t documented in police reports.
I’m sick of playing this game that a few Dem and liberal bloggers claim to have heard about these allegations from credible sources, but no one has ever done the research to determine if the incidents happened and if it’s the same John Laesch.
The bloggers that have part of the story should make sure the story is run to ground.
Either it’s true or it isn’t. The allegations I heard don’t involve much gray zone. Either Laesch got arrested for doing some bad stuff or he didn’t.
In my conversations with Laesch at a Blagojevich fundraiser he seemed bright and articulate with a sophisticated understanding of int’l issues.
===n my conversations with Laesch at a Blagojevich fundraiser he seemed bright and articulate with a sophisticated understanding of int’l issues.
Listen to the audio, it should disabuse you of any notion that Laesch isn’t an idiot.