Eight days remain in the City Council campaign, and the nastiest Please Don’t Use My Name critics of Scott Malsin have vowed not to sleep until he is defeated next Tuesday.
Ethically, they should not be able to sleep until months later because of the problematic way they have conducted their low-brow campaign to deprive Mr. Malsin of returning to the office he held for six years.
Their scurrilousness is exceeded only by their insistence that their identities not be revealed – perhaps because it would disappoint their children to learn the ethical truth about their parents.
Isn’t it ironic that these latter-day liberals are secretly emulating President Nixon, the man some of these boys vilified when they were pink-cheeked during the early 1970s?
They verbally tortured Mr. Nixon for not vigorously stepping in front of the curtain and admitting his sins.
Almost 40 years later, when they are committing a more insidious violation, these boys ask, What curtain?
Driving hard against Mr. Malsin, obviously, is fair play.
If you disagree with the way he has conducted himself in office, fine.
But to go after his supposed accumulated holdings? Boys. Shame.
You plainly have taken your cue from President Obama who has ruled that successful people are to be demonized in public and hit up for support when safely out of view.
Some have criticized our newspaper for igniting the latest assaults on Mr. Malsin by printing a required publicly available form that purports to establish the wealth of all candidates for office. Our newspaper has an open-door policy, left, right and otherwise.
Envy of those who have more than some of us is an old attack weapon of the entitled liberal tier.
One of many ironies of this season:
Culver City liberals are using what they say they despise in others against one of their own.
Wouldn’t it serve them right if Mr. Malsin, who has held his tongue, won out?
Over the weekend, many of Mr. Malsin’s supporters received a copy of the March essay from this newspaper that has been used as an excuse to spew hate.
Darn. The brave soldiers on the left, who say they hate hate, must have forgotten to attach their return address to the hate piece. Darn. Don’t you hate when that happens?
In response, at 10:30 last evening, Mr. Malsin issued the following to recipients of the hurt piece:
Dear Friend:
It has come to our attention that another candidate or candidates and/or someone potentially affiliated with their campaign(s) has anonymously mailed a reprint of an incredibly inaccurate web blog letter and my Form 700 financial disclosure filing. If you received this, please save it and let us know.
While this type of hit piece is unfortunate, I am going to continue to run a positive campaign based on my experience, based on my ideas, based on my promises to Culver City for the future.
You can help take a stand against cheap campaign tricks by:
• Voting for me on Election Day,
• Posting a lawn sign on your property,
• Endorsing my campaign.
Whatever you do, remember to vote on April 10.
Thank you,
Scott.
