via MyLeftNutmeg
Sara Littman, columnist for both the Times and the Stamford Advocate, has always been a progressive voice here in Connecticut, but her final bid for the cause at the Greenwich Time was an editorial in which she spoke up against candidate Lee Whitnum. Lee is running as a Democrat against ActBlue candidate Jim Himes.
Sara has always been a stalwart supporter of Democrats here in Connecticut - we cannot afford to lose her voice.
Here are some of Lee's lowpoints:
On her Web site, she posted photos and reminiscences of her purported 20-month romance with John Kerry in an effort to help sell pre-orders of her novel, Hedge Fund Mistress. The John Kerry Scrapbook, released during Kerry's Presidential campaign, was an instant hit for blogs and gossip columns.
She dished out intimate details of the relationship to news media, informing a New York Daily News gossip columnist, "All I can tell you is that John is 100% male" and he was "great in bed."
She has not taken kindly to local bloggers who document or question her behavior, repeatedly calling them "sleazy," "losers," "cowards," and "pathetic." (More here.)
She has also made blog posts as Masked Man and other personas, praising herself and attacking her critics, a practice known as sock puppetry.
Lee's foreign policy agenda makes Bush's look positively chummy.
ThomasHooker at MyLeftNutmeg surmises the real reason behind the firing:
This is a right-wing rag that has been shilling for Whitnum for months. In virtually every article about Jim Himes, Greenwich Time's political reporter Neil Vigdor has been boosting Whitnum's candidacy, covering up her whacky utterances and essentially portraying Whitnum as a courageous fighter against the Democratic machine.
But this appears to have been nothing but a pretext. In an appearance before the Greenwich Retired Men's Association about a month ago broadcast on Greenwich Community Television channel 79, Dunster, responding to a complaint about "liberal" Sarah Littman, admitted that he personally "on the conservative side of the spectrum", and said that he was going to make changes in the editorial page.
If you want to stick up for Sarah Littman, please write the editor John Dunster at:
john.dunster@scni.com
Also, write the president of Hearst Newspapers, Mr. George P. Irish at:
girish@hearst.com
If you get a chance, please drop by Sara's blog and give her some support.