August 31, 2012

Allen West to reporter: "I don't want your endorsement"

By Rob Janicki
From one of my favorite bloggers, Javier Manjarres, over at the Shark Tank 
comes this post accompanied with a video of Congressman Allen West being interviewed by several Florida journalists.  What makes this post and video interesting is that Congressman West specifically beseeches the Editorial Board of the TPPalm to continue to support his opponent, considering the TPPalm has been on the wrong side of past election results.  This comes in at about the 2:00 minute mark of the 3 minute video.  Congressman West also responds to questions about Debbie Wasserman Schultz that are interesting.

[...] After this morning’s RPOF “Fresh From Florida” breakfast, Congressman Allen West addressed a media gaggle and was asked by a TCPalm reporter about his publication’s editorial board.

“I don’t want your endorsement, I want you to continue to endorse the other guy.” – Congressman Allen West

For those of you unfamiliar, the TCPalm website is the primary mainstream media publication that covers the Treasure Coast area, and it’s a publication hostile to West.   TC Palm’s site routinely publishes puff pieces on Murphy as well as Murphy’s almost certainly ghostwritten op-eds. [...]


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