"We're Relevant! We're Really/Finally Relevant!"

The GSO blogosphere is positively giddy over the firing of GSO city manager, Mitch Johnson. Make no mistake. He needed to go. And a lot of people put in a lot of hours/hard work to make it so.

I'm still scratching my head over the severence pay for a guy essentially fired for cause.

It reminds me of Sally Field at the Oscars. "We're relevant! We're really/finally relevant!".

I'm closing my eyes and trying to picture Cone in sequins. Of course, Mr. Relevance pretty much straddled the fence on this one.

We'll see. I fear those drunk with victory now will rest on their (still meager) laurels and not keep the heat on. There is much more to be done.

I posted a comment at Joe's. Thought I'd pull it here:

Joe, it's certainly nice to see a change in the way the wind is blowing. But forgive me if I'm not giddy with glee.

The following excerpt from your post really hit a deep cord with me:

"Each of these officers-- in both groups-- need to have their situations made right. They need to have returned to them the earnings they unjustifiably lost. Their legal bills need to be paid. For those that remain within the department, wherever appropriate, they need to be restored to positions that are equivalent to those they previously held. And they need to be treated well, and with honor-- and not be treated as pariahs."

Four years ago, I came to the GSO blogosphere (at the N&R's invitation no less) and asked for help from blogging's big guns in exposing an injustice no less egregious (and not so very different) than what David Wray endured at the hands of Mitch Johnson.

I have been fighting my battle longer and just as fiercely . . . while facing the same barriers and political/journalistic biases as Wray, Sanders, & company. And I've done it without Spag's pro-bono legal representation. I am resolved that shortly I will be hiring lawyers to address a problem that I should not have to hire lawyers to address . . . because, purely and simply I am the victim of crime . . . a actually a series of crimes. But the AG's office and the SBI have ignored my situation. It does not serve an agenda.

I am NOT winning.

As for "Blogsboro", a long time ago, I was called a "wack-job" for penning this post: http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2006/04/burned-citizen-journalism.html

I've not forgotten it. Who's wacky now?

The N&R's biased, suck-up-to-the-"right-people", race-baiting "coverage" of the GPD mess was fundamentally unfair from the very beginning. I was one of the first to question it. But it's not a new thing with this "newspaper". They don't learn from their mistakes. They don't change their behavior. And they do not apologize.

From blogging's cheap seats, I've got to say that it's not really a "win" until justice is flowing for everybody.

And it's not.

But party on.

Oo-rah!