[mrsmel]

LOL, one of the editors has posted a comment saying, essentially, that they never meant for the public to see what they really were saying, hahahahaha.

[SmithL]

From the comments on the newly-revised editorial:

A note to our readers:

Many of these comments refer to an article that was posted in error. That article was a draft prepared for internal discussion among members of The Bee's editorial board. Such discussions are a routine part of our work, and frequently lead to editorials that are considerably different from writers' first drafts. That's what happened in this case.

After discussion, we decided that our initial editorial about the special election should take a different tack. The result was the editorial that now appears on sacbee.com/opinion.

That editorial is the only editorial about the special election that appeared in Wednesday's editions of The Bee.

David Holwerk
Editorial Page Editor
The Sacramento Bee