Friday, 26 December 2008

The Press

“Name That Party!” at the WSJ


Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmonson recently told supporters that he plans to run for Governor in 2010.  So voters might be interested in how the AG has treated critics of government...
So begins the editorial “Still Oklahoma’s Most Wanted” on the editorial page of today’s Wall Street Journal.  Seems that Mr. Edmondson doesn’t approve of “outsiders” engaging in political speech in his state, and is persuing criminal conspiracy charges against three “grassroots activists”[1] for “attempting to defraud the state by hiring people from out[side] of Oklahoma to gather signatures for a ballot initiative...” despite being unanimously overturned by the Tenth Circuit.

The editorial goes on to examine the history and circumstances of the Oklahoma case, the issue of residency requirements vs. freedom of speech in general, and the fate of similar legislation in the courts.[2] Altogether, a generally through job.

Except for one minor thing.  Only when we get to the eighth of the editorial’s nine paragraphs do we find out that Mr. Edmonson is – taa daa! –

a Democrat.

Gee, you’d think that, of all people, the Journal editors would be alert for this stuff by now.


Previously.
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[1]  The Journal’s language.  Wonder what the Journal editors would have called them if the initiative had been for something other than to “impose spending limits on lawmakers?”  “Community organizers,” perhaps...?  Oh, snap!

[2]  Ohio and Arizona, overturned unanimously in the Sixth and Ninth Circuits respectively.

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