Wednesday, November 30, 2016

GOP wins with Pelosi victory; democrats lose.

Over the past two decades or so, certain political party patterns have emerged.

Locally, the 49th District is "Charlie's Country," so to speak.

NO ONE running on the GOP message or platform can win there... not even a RINO such as Carolyn Crain.

But the rest of the county?

At the legislative level, until... and likely even beyond... redistricting, the rest of this county remains a bright red.  At the council level, fake Republicans dominate.  But they are still labeled as GOP, even if they all vote like their fellow leftists.

Thus, even a bald-faced liar such as Ann "Gas Tax" Rivers will be easily re-elected, because the democrats insist on running hard... or harder... left candidates who would sound more at home in downtown Seattle than in districts where their message cannot win.

You cannot continue to insist, for example, that the CRC is a swell idea in a district where every single precinct voted against it every chance they got... and expect to win outside the neo-communist 49th.  You can't shill an income tax, or light rail, or expanded social programs, or welcoming arms for prospective terrorists and expect to win in vast swaths of a district that has proven itself to be hard right.

With the continued "leadership" of the left as represented by Hillary Clinton, Donna Brazile, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid/Chuck Schumer and prospectively, a fringe-left, America-hating muslim terrorist sympathizer by the name of Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the GOP found itself with the best of all possible outcomes as a result of the re-election of the Belle of Botox as House Minority Leader.

The map of America tends to show how out of touch these people are.  In real terms, the democrats have, as I understand it, monolithic government in 7 states while the GOP controls 24 states with GOP governors and legislatures and more governorships than ever before.

This kind of thing is an ongoing process.

Even here in the Washington Soviet, democrat control of the legislature teeters on the brink; the GOP somehow managed to maintain control of the Senate but only because one democrat is caucusing with the GOP... a miracle after yet another betrayal by the GOP-controlled senate over the gas tax/tab fee scam they ran on us that is doing so much damage to lower to low income families for the next several years.

The trend, which continues unabated, is for the GOP resurgence to continue... and even pick up steam.

The reality is that the further left the dems go, the more the GOP benefits... which is why keeping Pelosi right where she is was the best possible move the democrats could have made... for the Republicans.

The left's only hope to regain ground is to moderate and move back towards the center.

That means they have to move away from socialism of the variety they most prefer, that practiced by Castro.

That means they have to understand that human nature Trumps (So to speak) political ideology.

Generally, the political golden rule is that people vote their wallets.  Here locally, for example, the expenditure of billions of dollars for an unneeded project made zero sense where it mattered: the people who were actually going to have to pay for it.

Those pushing it the hardest were on the left, and by doing that, they worked to get and keep Republicans around here elected for the next decade.

There were two glaring errors and whole bunch of little ones:

The first error was lying to the public.

We hate liars.  Those supporting this scam were constantly lying from the getgo: the entire purpose of replacing the I-5 Bridge then... and now... was to extend loot rail into Clark County... or so said the Oregon State Supreme Court.

Every other reason was backfill, designed to try and justify an unjustifiable decision.

Over time, that became clear.  But supporters, who, by policy, had taken steps to silence the public on this issue, refused to back off from their totally bogus assertions, even in the face of being proven as liars.

The second was treating opponents like dog crap stuck to their shoe.

Everyone from soon to be former Rep. Jim Moeller to the slime at the democratian insulted, belittled, attacked, slandered and libeled those of us who actually had the sense to represent the well known will of the people.

One of them, a fringe-left nutburger by the name of John Laird, editorial page editor for the daily democrat, went so far as to refer to opponents as "cockroaches" in a column he wrote.

These things leave a lasting impression.  But the biggest impression is that generally, leftists don't listen; they don't care, and they put their agenda ahead of their job of representing the people.  Of course, many in the GOP do that as well... but not as a function of the GOP itself.

The reality is that the left was rabid about making this project happen, then... and now.  But the other reality is that the vast majority of those shilling this scam would not be the ones paying for it.  And when given a chance to express an opinion, those who would have paid the estimated $2000 a year in tolls for this massive waste of money simply refused to support it... and the local left has made us suffer ever since.

It is this kind of arrogance and stupidity, embodied in Minority Leader Pelosi and every other democrat running... that their way is the only way and opponents are objects to be scorned, attacked, insulted... all according to Alinski's Rules for Radicals.

This past election, those who support Trump were castigated as racist, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic and the like merely because some changed their minds (Obviously, may who voted for Trump had also voted for Obama in the past but refused to vote for Hillary) and some who supported  Trump from the start.

Why is that smart?  How does that serve to persuade those you need to convince that you are right and they are wrong?

Even today, Obama showed the introspection of a board fence when he babbled: 
"In this election, [white working class voters] turned out in huge numbers for Trump," Obama said, answering Jann Wenner about why that group, which he won a good percentage of in 2008 and 2012, didn't vote for the candidate he endorsed. "And I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively. Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments."
No possibility that those 8 years of polls that indicated the people of this country felt that we were heading in the wrong direction... overwhelmingly... and that Hillary doubled down on many of those policies sending us there might be at fault.

Not even a hint that his policies; the betrayal of Obamacare, the massive overreach of his illegal executive orders concerning illegal aliens and the like, just went too far for too long, among many other issues he engaged in.

Lies are not consistently a great platform to run a campaign from.  And perhaps the biggest lie ever foisted on the American people was this "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan" nonsense, combined with that "a family of 4 will save $2500 a year in premiums" crap he shilled.

Just like the GOP was in 08 and 12, the reality is that the dems were out-thought, out-hustled, out-planned and out-executed by a man they had zero respect for.  They refused to see that when Trump held a rally, he didn't have to pay people to show up.... and he ran his campaign for a great deal less money.

They discounted the impact he had when he crushed 16 other candidates to become the GOP.. and these same people were assuring us that Trump would not be the democrat nominee.

Regular readers may recall how the GOP establishment freaked... about how they did everything they could to try and reinvent the GOP as democrat-lite.

Not unlike the RINO scum working over the local GOP...  Except the major difference was the GOP LOST in 12, and won here in 16, keeping the local overwhelming majority of elected officials at least claiming allegiance to the GOP in office.

The dems, on the other hand, oddly seem to have concluded that they didn't move far enough away from the mainstream, and want to double-down with a terrorist supporter like Keith Ellison running their show.

While that might make them feel better, its not going to win them any elections.  And in 18, they have 25 senate seats to defend... an almost impossible task, particularly for a group who let it be known how much they despise those who oppose their agenda.

The outcome of this presidential election was a disaster for the left, where everyone appears to have been convinced beyond redemption that Hillary was going to destroy Trump; the most obvious example being the LA Times poll, where on November 6, their own poll showed Trump at +5 over Hillary, yet they projected in the face of that number that Hillary was going to receive 322 or so electoral votes... which shows such an astounding level of self-delusion... that they refused to believe their OWN data... and predicted a massacre of Trump by Clinton.

So what, exactly, does that do to leftist credibility?

And now, they whine because Hillary won the popular vote... as if that means anything.

Well, one of the many pre-election scenarios out there that perhaps, TRUMP might have won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote.

If that had happened... do you think any of these clowns would be whining about THAT?

Of course not.  You see, in their world, it ALWAYS different when a leftist does it.

Always.

Yet somehow, these whining little kids believe hypocrisy to be perfectly acceptable when THEY engage in it for THEIR candidates.

Take a few moments and watch the reaction of these ignorants on the "Young Turks," a group of fringe left nutjobs who clearly know as much about politics as they do about performing an abdominal resection:



https://youtu.be/HAUm6t_vM_s )

They were SOOOOOOO arrogant.  They were SOOOOO smug.

And they were SOOOOOO wrong.

And this is the future of the democrat party.

That, of course, is why the House Democrats reelecting Pelosi, who was ALSO dead wrong on the election outcome, is such a great thing for the GOP.

I'm reminded of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo:
"They came on in the same old way and we defeated them in the same old way."
And with the victory of Pelosi and the insanity of giving he DNC chairmanship to Ellison?

The dems have guaranteed GOP dominance for years to come.

And they simply don't get it.

But they will.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Dear Senator Rivers, 2.

Since you screwed your district and the people of Clark County sideways by helping to hang a $700 million tax bill around our necks in complete violation of your pledge to oppose gas tax and tab fee increases, I thought I'd take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the massive increase in my tab fees that went along with your betrayal of your constituents.

Last year, I paid $54 for tabs on my now 28 year old Bronco that I drive, perhaps, 30 times a year, primarily during inclement weather because it's lifted and I can use it to get through some flooding and to help my neighbors out.

Imagine how delighted I was to discover that, in addition to you nailing us for 12 cents a gallon for fuel, my tab fee has now increased to $84... from $54... for one year.

I think of you often... usually when I buy fuel.

But I CERTAINLY had thoughts about you today when I opened up my tab renewal notice.

Thanks once again for bending us over for the special interests who own you while heaping dishonor on the professional political class.

I'm ashamed I ever voted for you, and believe me, it's a mistake I'll never make again.

Most sincerely, K.J. Hinton

Constituent you ignore when it comes to communicating with your office in Olympia.

Uh, oh... looks like I upset Carolyn Crain!

So, as the sting sets in and the carefully laid plans of the RINO contingent to take over the local GOP gets blown to pieces, this is the kind of reaction it's generating.
Subject:  Just in case you hadn't seen this 
I was amazed to receive this email below regarding ME! I know KJ Hinton has been writing trash about me, Paul Harris, Ann Rivers, Jaime Herrera, Shane Bowman, Jennifer McDaniel, Brent Boger, Jeanne Stewart, Julie Olson, Lynda Wilson, and Marc Boldt. Obviously being a Republican is a dilemma for the board so they have resorted to having KJ write their trash and he is paid  to do it! Now he has lied and added more as I am hearing him trashing Kathy McDonald... what is next?
Having already proven herself to be both a liar AND a hypocrite, Crain is reduced to claiming that I am getting PAID to write my perspectives.  Not hard to see the leftist Jimmy Mains/Chuckie Green influence here.

While it SHOULD go without saying after all these years... NO ONE PAYS ME ANYTHING TO WRITE ANYTHING ON MY BLOG.

Also of note is this: I supposedly "lied" about McDonald... yet Crain fails to indicate HOW I lied: what did I write that wasn't true?  Is writing the truth really "trashing" someone?

I get that the very idea that someone who can figure out what is going on and then object to it is simply beyond Crain's retarded ability to understand when it conflicts with her RINO agenda.

In Crain's world, telling the truth and providing facts represents "trashing."  Well, if any candidate or even candidate supporter disagrees with anything I've written, they can certainly write a rejoinder which I will publish unedited.

And those reading this will note that she made absolutely ZERO effort to point out where ANYTHING I wrote was wrong, incomplete or exaggerated.

And that, frankly, is because there is nothing in that regard she CAN say.

Here's the reality: that a hypocrite like Crain wants these 4 people elected to ANYTHING is, by itself, reason enough to vote against them.

Frankly, I expected better from Mattilla.  He would be best served if he told her to go pound sand since she's radioactive.

But here's the thing: We all know exactly and precisely what Crain has done and is attempting to do to the party.  The lies (such as her bogus claim that I'm getting paid for this) her fake named organization that worked so hard to get my Young Democrat-endorsed whack job brother-in-law elected... her efforts and disruption here and her willingness to attack anyone wise enough to oppose her aims... those all speak for themselves... as does her endorsement of Chuck Green, democrat, in the councilor election against Julie Olson and her subsequent job as an admin on the C3G2 hate site.  This hissy fit all started when the party refused to endorse her over Lisa Ross.... and all this whining, sniveling and back-stabbing is the result..

Everything after that is a caricature of "hell having no fury like a woman scorned."
Apparently David Madore has resorted to posting trash on Facebook about me and it is filled with LIES!
Haven't read it.  Don't really need to.  But what was it Crain wrote a few weeks back?
 





I do not know who wrote it but the fact that David Madore posted these lies is atrocious. Please stop and think for a second.
So.  It's OK for CRAIN to post lies, but not for anyone else?

Tsk, tsk.  No double standard THERE, eh?

By all means.  Stop and think.  And do it for even MORE than "a second."

Feel free to dig down... deep.  Don't take my word for any of this.  But correspondingly, don't take anyone else's word for it, either.  Do your own research.  Go below the surface.  Review the history of this woman and her efforts and what she's accomplished (A miserable failure as a candidate) and what she wants to do now... and with whom.
Who voted and spent money as a board in violation of our county party bylaws to fund candidates they were running against other Republican Candidates this year?
I'll byte.  Who?

Who set up a fake GOP organization to support a leftist like Marc Boldt?

That was you, wasn't it Carolyn?

 





Who spent Republican donations to campaign for LIBERTARIAN candidates when a good Republican was on the ballot in 2014?
You mean like you people supported the democrats instead of a "good Republican" in the county chair race?







Who tried to bring forward 5 amendments which were in complete conflict with our own constitution last year?
You got me.

Who's trying to bring bogus amendments to the bylaws forward that are in complete conflict with being a conservative NOW?







Who voted to NOT endorse Republicans this year?
Who worked to get a self-admitted NON-Republican elected to the county chair position LAST year?







The current party leadership!
Why, that would be CAROLYN CRAIN!

 





Realize how important this vote is... your attendance at this one meeting is critical to this 3 year effort.
Critical to WHO, Crain?  YOU?

Just because you've been wasting your time and effort while you do your best to damage the party, you think anyone else should?







They even intend to try to unseat Susan Hutchison with Christian Berrigan and need Katja Delavar and Joe Wagner and David Gellatly to do it. Those three votes on the WSRP board matter! Please help by attending and voting!
Wow, Crain.  When did Hutchinson start to pay YOU?

What's wrong with running against Hutchinson?  You sound the same as you did when Ross ran against... and defeated... YOU!

 





Please recognize the truth and vote for the 6 amendments we bring forth, vote against the vetting amendment.
By all means, recognize the truth.  Crain can't.  So, someone's got to do it for her.

The vetting amendment is vital to keep fake Republicans from getting party support.  Those like Crain, Boger, Blom and that ilk who would be much better off running as they are: democrats... 
 





 and vote for the following candidates which will return sanity to our county party:
 Melanie Wheeler for Secretary
Joseph DelliGatti for Treasurer
Kathy McDonald for state committeewoman
Joel Mattila for state committeeman

And that's a shame.  Some, like McDonald, obviously have no place in GOP leadership.  DellGatti is nothing more than a Crain sock puppet.

Clearly, if Crain supports these people, they shouldn't be allowed to run an elevator.






The chair and vice-chair to follow!
Holding it close to the vest to reduce the amount of truth-time, eh?
While writing this there have been 4 more nasty emails sent out to people.
Like the one you sent out, here?
 Please stand up for Republicans in this county!
By voting against anything Crain wants or any candidate she supports.

 





Carolyn Crain

More on McDonald.

Not surprisingly, Kathy McDonald is a co-founder of a women-only political group, "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."

Besides being a discriminatory, extra-partisan group that includes Charter Scammer Betty Sue Morris, this group also supported the CRC Scam that the people overwhelmingly opposed:

The money quote:
The group supports candidates of any party who see the importance of economic development for the region, including the Columbia River Crossing project, Schauer said.
Not particularly Republican, that.  But very much particularly Republican in name only.

 And taking it a step further, McDonald was also the treasurer for the Dump Madore PAC owned and operated by democrat David Nierenberg and the scam PAC's email contact.

Contact Information
Name - CONNECTING CLARK CO
Address - 1605 NW 65TH STREET
City - VANCOUVER
State - WA
Zip - 98663
Email - KMCDON@COMCAST.NET
Phone - 360-607-8959


And how Republican is that?  Do you really want a state committee woman who claims to be a "conservative" who worked for a price to get rid of one of the conservative pivotal figures in killing the CRC Scam, a scam she obviously supported, representing the GOP at the state level?  Only to replace him with an arrogant, inexperienced RINO punk who is going to vote to screw us as much as the other leftist Stooges on the council?

And, of course, as far back as 2005, McDonald was pro-tax increase, telling the Columbian: 
"I'm not anti-tax," said McDonald. "I'm a fiscal conservative. And I'm also a mom with four kids. I make them ride the bus."

McDonald said changes to the ballot proposal were made by C-Tran after feedback on the November defeat and show[sic] a commitment to listen to the public. "You have to have a good transit system for healthy economic development," she said. 
Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA) - June 22, 2005
How can she be anti-tax, considering how much money she's made from her efforts to jack our taxes up?

These things matter.  A pro-tax political mercenary who claims to be a Republican but who appears, when looking at the paper-trail, that she'll work for and with anyone if the price is right.
Memo to Ann Donnelly:  It takes a great deal more than YOUR say-so to convince anyone with a record like this that she's a conservative.

If you actually believe that (which I doubt, for some reason) then you have a very strange definition of the term.

To the PCO's in this meeting, I say this: vote for whomever you like.  But don't vote based on packaging or who endorses who.

Check the record, think for yourself, be aware and vote accordingly.  But do not be fooled: my Spaniels have more of a record of conservatism than McDonald.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Kathy McDonald and the rest of the story.

There's an email pinging around the net to a "select few" (apparently) from Ann Donnelly, explaining why she's supporting Kathy McDonald for State Committeewoman.

This email is well written, far better than my own meager effort here to be sure... but then, that's what's to be expected of a PhD.

And it's all that, as far as it goes.  But there's a few things left out of the story that Ann either didn't know... or didn't want YOU to know.

In this case, the simplest thing you can do is, well, follow the money.

One of my hobbies is to peruse the PDC's.  You can find out a lot just by looking.

The PDC's, for example, told me that Ann Rivers had been deliberately overstating her campaign funds by a paltry $175,000 or so... for over a year.

They told me that for some reason, the $135,000 she surplused from her last campaign in August never seemed to make it into her surplus fund account, instead... apparently... vaporizing into thin air.

They told me that she had made in excess of $10,000 in payments to the Bank of America... for something.

They told me that it appears my brother-in-law, Marc Boldt, decided he needed $5000 from his abortive 2012 commissioner campaign, so he took it, claiming that it was repayment of a loan he'd made to the campaign...except for one minor detail;

There's no record of any such loan having been made... or any other loan, for that matter.

Yes, it's amazing what you can find by looking.

For example, I discovered that Kathy McDonald has a thing for consulting on campaigns where our taxes are going to increased.  Not in opposition... but in support.

Here's the Cliff Notes version:

Among others McDonald tried to bend us over for:

It looks like McDonald made around $24,000 for helping to jack up our taxes for the library... an effort that lost here in Clark County but passed by a large enough margin in the rest of the library district to pass over all.

Then, of course, she made bank off the Port's effort to keep their unnecessary and unneeded tax increase that was overturned by the voters... "Citizens for a Strong Economy," the falsely named mission by the Port of Vancouver to stick it to us with a huge tax INCREASE for $2000... Along with a cool $5000 from the useless effort to keep the voters from taking Arch Miller's head and replacing him with Jerry Oliver.

Most recently, she also picked up $2500 from democrat David Nirenberg's "screw David Madore PAC," aka "Connecting Clark County."

So, while I have little doubt that McDonald is many things to many people, I missed the part in Ann's recitation of her many virtues that covered "political mercenary."



Donnelly acts as if McDonald is new to local GOP leadership.  Well,  I admit to a failing memory, but I also seem to recall from the deep, dark recesses of my mind a time when she was on or near the Executive Board for the Party and she was asked to resign because she'd held a fund raiser for Tim Probst.

Donnelly writes:
You and I both know: we cannot continue to depend on the same handful of people as we go into a new chapter for the Republican Party. Grateful as we are for past dedicated and in many ways successful work, when an outstanding new talent is available – someone of deep experience and formidable ties outside our region (a fair description of Kathy) – we would be wise to diversify our base of activism.
Utter nonsense.

By any measure, the current GOP is more successful in every way that it ever has been.  And that includes when Donnelly was running it. It has more office holders than ever.  Despite the efforts by many masquerading as "moderates" under the GOP banner.

It would be one thing if they WEREN'T successful.  THAT would be a reason to replace them.  But they unarguably ARE successful.  And Donnelly/McDonald want to get rid of them anyway.

Now, why do you think that might be?
I am a strong supporter of Joel Mattilla for State Committeeman based on the same rationale – the advantage of adding a phenomenal new talent to our CCRCC Executive Committee.
I can appreciate that... but it's also irrelevant to the issue of McDonald... who is many things but "phenomenal NEW talent" ain't one of them.  She's been around as long as I have... and that's going on 25+ years now.
Just so is Kathy McDonald, and as luck would have it, she[sic] and Joel worked side by side along with many of you, in the Trump election organization.  Kathy has the ideal skills and track record to convince us of her suitability for this job.  She is not an unknown factor.  
Weird.  I must have missed that.  It kinda reminds me of the set up about John Pennington and the Plum Book, getting a sweet job as Region 11 FEMA director that he was absolutely unqualified for... until he was outed as having a degree from a bogus matchbook cover university... all because the then Congresswoman from the 8th District, Jennifer Dunn, said the same kinds of things about Pennington to the Bush Team... even though, to the best of my knowledge, that description was somewhat less than truthful... since I had never seen or heard from him at any point during the campaign.

And when it comes to her "track record," working on campaigns to raise our taxes isn't really a suitable record to have for a Republican... is it? 
You have seen her recent email describing her qualifications. She proved herself years ago in the fast-moving, demanding world of conservative activism in SW Washington led by Linda Smith.  Kathy knows our region intimately and has earned the unquestioned confidence of the broader business community, an element of our electorate within which we need stronger relationships.
Sorry, but her "track record" seems to me to disqualify her as a "conservative,"  In fact, Donnelly's support of McDonald seems to do the same.

You see, both Ann Donnelly and Kathy McDonald appear to have endorsed my brother-in-law, leftist Marc Boldt, for county commission chair, instead of voting for a conservative or a Republican.

Odd, then, that two people who endorsed a candidate who has raised our taxes, ignored the voters on the issues and who governs in a way reminiscent of a junior Fidel Castro would either know what a conservative is or make the claim that they somehow qualify with that label.


Screen capture from Boldt's county chair campaign page.
That McDonald is a member of the downtown mafia may be swell from Donnelly's perspective, but it's hardly a reason to support her for any candidacy.  In fact, I might venture to say that it's something of a reason to oppose her effort, as I oppose the rest of the not even subtle effort of the RINO clique to retake control of the party FROM conservatives... while I find it odd that those involved in that effort actually make the demonstrably false claim that they are, in fact, "conservatives."
Kathy has something unique– deep connections to statewide and national conservative organizations, including serving on the national Trump transition team.  She is trusted by President-Elect Trump to advise him on appointments to major offices.   When needed, Kathy can call upon national and state leaders, and even the Trump administration, with her in-depth knowledge of their strengths to assist us when needed.
Utter nonsense.  I seriously doubt that Trump knows she exists.

McDonald is a nobody.  She has no connections of consequence, no leverage and no ability to make anything happen.  That Donnelly would attempt to mislead us into believing this nonsense is, well, just bizarre... because here's the thing: if she's all that?

She can do it without being elected to anything.  With all this "power," it's not like she wouldn't use it for the forces of "good" merely because someone else got the job she wanted... right?

So why are her alleged (hardly proven) powers a reason to elect her?

Beats me.

Look, I get that the RINO's want to take over again... with the same mediocre results to show for it.

This isn't for the good of the party.  These two could care less.  Just for one example, Marc Boldt was a PCO for my precinct for 4 years and never once showed up at a meeting or did anything else to help the party for the entirety of that time, save for his moronic effort to get the GOP endorsement after he was actually endorsed by the Young Democrats... one of the biggest fringe-left organizations in the county... who DID endorse him right after Donnelly and McDonald did the same.  And that made zero difference to either of them.

And how "conservative" is that?

Look.  I'm not in the party.  Not a member.  Not anything, as far as that goes.

But when someone is telling a story about someone because they want them to get a job to help get rid of conservatives in the party like they did from elective office, they need to tell ALL of the story... and not just the parts they want you to know.  Here, electing McDonald to this position is the local equivalent to making Mitt Romney Secretary of State.

I'm reminded of the Trump story of the snake, which ends thus:
" 'I saved you,' cried that woman, and you've bit me, heavens, why?" Trump read, turning the song into a sort of fable. "You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die.
'Oh shut up, silly woman,' said the reptile with a grin. 'You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.' "
Anything less than telling ALL of the story makes Donnelly no better than a Columbian reporter.

Just sayin'.

And now you know the REST of the story.