In my blog last Sunday, "The Smear Against Mark Carstensen,” I challenged Franklin bloggers Greg Kowalski and John Michlig to be very sure about their facts:
“I urge anyone who reads their blogs to question everything they write, especially Kowalski who has a history of blogging anything he wants without facts or substantiation other than rumor and his feelings. Make sure you read carefully for proof and evidence. If they’re going to attack and smear someone, they’d better have the goods. They need to back up anything they say when they write about this in the future, or risk a complete loss of credibility.”
Former FranklinNOW blogger Greg Kowalski will simply never learn.
In his haste to blast Franklin Mayor Tom Taylor, whom Greg is always, always, always ripping, Greg posted yet another irresponsible blog on one of his three blogs last night (My gosh, he can’t even get one blog right and he’s doing three?).
Greg made two accusations against Mayor Taylor: 1) That Taylor refused to attend Bank Mutual’s ribbon cutting ceremony at 51st and Rawson Thursday, and 2) Mayor Taylor high-tailed it out of town AFTER Alderman Lyle Sohns filed a letter with the Mayor’s office questioning how complaints have been handled about a property adjacent to the barren Fountains of Franklin site at 56th and Rawson. Mayor Taylor, Greg noted, put Common Council President Steve Taylor in charge while the mayor went camping.
Greg wrote, in part:
"I was told that Mayor Taylor was not at the Bank Mutual ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday afternoon. Instead, it was found out that he was at his office in City Hall at that time."
This morning, Alderman Taylor busted the young gumshoe’s chops, leaving this comment on Greg’s blog:
FYI....I was with Mayor Taylor at the Bank Mutual Ribbon Cutting for over a hour and a half. I also knew that he would be out of town before the letter from Alderman Sohns was even sent.
SFT
Posted by: Steve F Taylor | August 16, 2008 at 09:10 AM
Greg, Greg, Greg….
I’ll say it for the 543rd time, even though you won’t listen. You got to get your facts straight, boy! This isn’t some movie or restaurant review.
Let’s go through this in an orderly fashion that maybe Greg can understand.
1) TOM Taylor is the mayor.
2) STEVE Taylor is the Common Council President.
3) TOM can appoint STEVE in charge whenever TOM goes out of town.
4) This is August.
5) August is a summer month.
6) People take vacations in August.
7) Mayor Taylor planned for this vacation well in advance of any Sohns letter. He even informed Alderman Taylor he’d be handling the reins.
8) Mayor Taylor was, indeed, at the ribbon cutting.
9) A simple phone call would have verified #8.
10) Greg was in such a sweat to slam Mayor Taylor with a negative headline, MAYOR VANISHES, that he did what he does so often….writes without supporting arguments, or thinking. He assumed he was doing damage to the mayor when, in fact, he was only harming himself.
That’s quite an omelet Greg is wiping off his face, I’d say.
But as another blogger once said, and it bears repeating, he's such a whippersnapper!
