“For heaven’s sake, this was Jindal’s aide and her leg was broken in four places by these thugs. Her boyfriend was also attacked. This was a Republican fund raiser event.
There were others that barely escaped from this mob. Read some of the on-the-scene accounts.”
What *has* Gov. Jindal done?
From the Waterford, CT, Republican-American blog:
http://blogs.rep-am.com/worth_reading/2010/04/16/nothing-to-see-here-4/
“We usually don’t favor such comparisons, but consider: Suppose a top aide to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a black official, had been beaten, apparently by white Tea Party protesters? Would you get 22 hits on Yahoo! and AP briefs in the nation’s biggest newspapers? Accounts would be written by staff writers, not processed by wire editors. Consider the wholly unproven allegations that Tea Partyers shouted the “N” word, and one even spit on a black congressman outside the Capitol before a major vote on Obamacare. Coverage of this incident has been ubiquitous; yet no one has been able to isolate a single “N-word” utterance from audio and video recordings of the incident, even though six-figure reward money awaits anyone who can produce such evidence.
Trouble is, left-wing protesters beating up aides to Republican politicians fall well outside the narrative of right-wing violence the media are so hot to project.”
“About” the Republican-American:
http://www.rep-am.com/about_us/republican_american/
“The Republican American
In an era of chain ownership, the Republican-American is one of Connecticut’s few independent daily newspapers and has been locally owned and operated by the same family for more than a century.
The Waterbury American was the first newspaper published in Waterbury, Conn. Starting as a weekly on December 14, 1844, it went to daily publication on May 22, 1863. The Waterbury American stood alone in its field until 1881, when two weeklies were established: the Democrat and the Republican. The Republican became a daily in 1884 and established a Sunday edition in 1907. The Democrat followed in 1887, but competition proved overwhelming and it printed its final edition in 1946.
The Republican was sold to its present ownership, the Pape family, in 1901, when William Jamieson Pape bought it in partnership with Gordon Lathrop. Within nine years he became sole owner. He bought the Waterbury American in 1922, merged it with the Republican, and remained editor and publisher until his death on January 29, 1961. During his tenure, the Republican was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for its unraveling of Waterbury’s political scandals. For many years, the Republican published mornings and the American afternoons until the two were combined into the morning Republican-American in April, 1990.
In 1952, the Pape family bought Waterbury’s landmark Union Station, built by the New Haven Railroad in 1909. Six years later, after considerable renovations, it opened as the newspaper’s headquarters. The building’s signature tower, at 240 feet, is one of the tallest clock towers in New England. It is modeled after the Torre de Mangia on the Palazzo Pubblico (City Hall) in Siena, Italy. The clock, now electrically operated, is the largest tower clock in New England and one of the largest in the country. Its bell, installed in 1916, is sometimes better heard on the city’s hills than on the nearby streets, both because of its height and the traffic noise.
In addition to its Pulitzer, the Republican-American continues to win numerous awards for its writing, photography and public affairs coverage, including the New England Newspaper Association’s Newspaper of the Year award for 2005.”
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Sounds like a decent little newspaper!