Letter from Cleveland city councilman

[snopes]

Comment: Attached is a copy of a letter purported to be from a Cleveland city
councilman. The letterhead is a bit suspect ("Legislative Department")
but this is Cleveland, after all.

If it's real, it's pretty amazing because of what the subject of the
letter could do to the city councilman in court.

Polensek is indeed a city councilman
http://www.clevelandcitycouncil.org/...7/Default.aspx

[Floater]

A nice touch that he sent a copy to the Plain Dealer.

[Ali Infree]

Call me skeptical, but the name Phillip Morris at the Plain Dealer, seemed too good to be true.

However:

http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer...l=2&thispage=1

Looks like this one is real. I guess that the Cleveland City Council by its charter would be the Legislative Department of the City of Cleveland.

Ali "is the river still burning?" Infree

[Avril]

From the article:

She says the councilman is a racist.

Surely his letter was ill advised, but the only mention of race in the article is to quote the kid, and apparently he writes these letters quite a bit, to everybody, not just blacks. (That's the sense I got from the article, anyway.) Why, oh why, must we see the race card so much?

Avril

[Tzarina]

Originally Posted by Ali Infree

Ali "is the river still burning?" Infree

Again, this joke is still not funny.

It's true. This is the second letter the Councilman sent. He said the first one was "polite".

After watching the councilman on the news, I was not overly impressed. He seems like a total jackass.

Oh, and his misuse of quotes is really annoying.

The mother says that his closing line of "Go to jail or the cemetery soon" is a threat.

[Ali Infree]

Tzarina: Point taken, it was a long time ago.

The letter is very mean in its tone, and without examples of his other letters or knowledge of the Wards and neighborhoods involved, I cannot make up my mind whether he was being racist. I have my suspicions, based on the Morris column. I will take your word about his assholiness.

The use of quotes irritate the NFBSK out of me too. I was always taught to use them to actually enclose quotes and that these other uses were trite.

Ali Infree

[Silas Sparkhammer]

Originally Posted by Tzarina

Again, this joke is still not funny.

A lot of us think it is.

Only people in San Francisco think that earthquake jokes "aren't funny." Everyone else still gets a smile from them.

It could be worse; you could live in Columbine, Colorado.

Silas

[Tzarina]

Originally Posted by Silas Sparkhammer

A lot of us think it is.

Only people in San Francisco think that earthquake jokes "aren't funny." Everyone else still gets a smile from them.

It could be worse; you could live in Columbine, Colorado.

Silas

Earthquakes are ongoing, and really not funny, either.

Why would you feel the need to make a joke about something that went on for about 30 minutes in 1969? Not exactly a timely joke topic, now is it?

[SamuelJones]

Originally Posted by Tzarina

Again, this joke is still not funny.

It's true. This is the second letter the Councilman sent. He said the first one was "polite".

After watching the councilman on the news, I was not overly impressed. He seems like a total jackass.

Oh, and his misuse of quotes is really annoying.

The mother says that his closing line of "Go to jail or the cemetery soon" is a threat.

Personally I see nothing inappropriate in the letter at all. I wish my council member was this diligent.

Hope that his dumb-as-mud ass doesn't move to my town.

Of course the question of whether the NFL is or is not "for losers" remains debatable. We'll see how the Michael Vick thing plays out.

[Psihala]

It could be worse; you could live in Columbine, Colorado.

Columbine isn't really a city - it's an unincorporated area located just west of the Littleton city limits. I grew up in a similar type of place (Pleasant View, which is just outside of Golden, but wasn't actually part if it).

~Psihala

[Tzarina]

the kid was arrested for drug trafficking