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Is Frank Vandersloot the most hated man in Idaho?
Submitted by Tom Paine on Fri, 02/12/2010 - 9:38pm.
Check out the reader feedback on this Popkey piece about Vandersloot’s support for small, raw milk producers.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/235/story/1077236.html?storylink=omni_popular&pageNum=1&mi_pluck_action=page_nav&commentSort=RecommendationsDescending#Comments_Container
Without taking sides one way or the other (I personally sympathize with the raw milk crowd; although Richard Nixon always attributed 2 of his brothers' young deaths to his father's insistence on serving raw milk), one would think Mr. Vandersloot would keep as low a profile as he could.
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wading there soils my trousers
There were a few nastygrams darted Frank's way, but it didn't really stand out as in the running for "most hated." You could probably get as much venom from the anti-Popkey commenters on any given day.
It's soooo tedious to try to read comments on the Statesman's site, as anything with more than a couple goes to the page-view multiplier machine. With only 1 or 2 comments on a page worth reading.
Actually
the comments on the Statesman's "blogs" work like these do here and are much easier to read, at least logistically. But I'm with you fortboise - comments on the "main" site are tedious to scroll through, and no matter where they're posted, comments on the Statesman site are generally not worth the time to read. Clearly the Statesman needs to update its entire site and learn what a "blog" is. I appreciate having Popkey and Brian Murphy post more content on the website, but from what I've read (not a lot, admittedly) it seems that what they're doing in their blogs is reporting, not blogging. Or maybe my definition of blogging is too limited.
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Tom Paine decides the raw milk controversy is important enough to enter the fray of Idaho idiots once again!
Neither Popkey nor Murphy have a blog
on the Statesman website and all content from them, so far, is just the on line version of their printed reports.
I agree that the comments on the Statesman web site, for the most part, are posted for the entertainment of the posters themselves but if you look closely you'll notice that they ignore the editorial content.
The "West Views: Opinions from other newspapers commenting on Idaho and Western issues" has zero comments while the letters to the editor may have 30 plus comments on the same day.
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and you got that last reference wrong too, it should have read:
Tom Trail decides the hemp controversy is important enough to enter the fray of Idaho idiots once again!
Perhaps you misunderstand my reference
to Tom Paine. Do you understand what I meant?
Since the legislature has been in session, Dan Popkey and Brian Murphy have been posting regularly on the Statesman's "blogs" site, found at voices.idahostatesman.com. They post on the "idahopolitics's blog." Some of it is indeed the online version of their printed reports, I don't believe all of what I've read there is printed. So while they don't each have an individual "blog" they do indeed contribute to one so-called blog.
Frank's relatives
Frank Vandersloot always jumps into an issue that affects his biz or his family.
He always jumps in whenever his beliefs are challenged, but sometimes, those beliefs will bend a little when he's slapped around enough by public opinion, because holding to them will hurt his biz or family. His knee jerk reflexes are fantastic.
Either way, he will always throw his political clout (that's money, actually) or his financial clout (that's money, too) around willy-nilly first. I kind of doubt that Melaleuca Inc. has more political (read money here) than the Idaho Dairy Industry, but he has enough to keep his relatives out of hot water.
And I'm sure that his relatives are running a clean dairy farm, as far as that goes. We will all get to see who wants to dump a bucket o' bucks on Boise to settle this one. Ya gotta love Idaho politicians--- they can be bought, but they don't come cheap.