Just got this in my in box:
Dear All-
I learned this morning that tomorrow morning's edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer will endorse George Bush for a second four-year term. What makes this particularly disgraceful and quite terrifying is that the seven-member editorial board of the PD voted 5-2 to endorse John Kerry. The publisher overruled them and announced the paper would support Bush. Similarly, the Lorain Journal editors were told that either they endorse George Bush or they endorse no one. So, they are endorsing no one.
It is critical for us to start a MAJOR letter writing campaign to the Plain Dealer and to spread the word about the publisher overruling the editorial board's vote. If this is going on here, you can imagine it's being duplicated all over the country.
Letters can be mailed to the Editor, The Plain Dealer, 1801 Superior Ave, Cleveland 44114. Email can be sent to letters@plaind.com. Faxes can be sent to 216-999-6209.
For those of you who don't live in the Cleveland area, know that in this critical swing state, the area covered by the PD is the most critical area for us to get out the Kerry vote to swing the state.
Update [2004-10-24 0:24:15 by Jim in Chicago]:
CPD postpones its endorsement!!!
A new Kossack just emailed me with this new info. She can't post yet, so she asked me to pass this along:
Daily Endorsement Tally: Kerry Poised for Big Day on Sunday, Gets Nod from 'Wash Post,' the 'Chicago Sun-Times," and More
. . . Meanwhile, E&P has learned from several sources at the Cleveland Plain Dealer that the paper's nine-person editorial board decided earlier this week that it wanted to endorse Kerry but Publisher Alex Machaskee, who has final say, has decided on Bush. The paper backed Bush in 2000.
This has caused consternation in some quarters at the Plain Dealer, with sources telling E&P that the endorsement editorial, which was expected to run Sunday, was put off.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000683265