Investigative Voice: LIES & LIARS? — Bernstein & Jessamy battle for the hearts & minds of the electorate

LIES & LIARS? — Bernstein & Jessamy battle for the hearts & minds of the electorate Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:24 AN INVESTIGATIVE VOICE ANALYSIS What was gained? What was lost? http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5571:lies-a-liars-bernstein-a-jessamy&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44 ---------- ---------- ---------- Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld, top left, and city State's Attorney candidate Gregg Bernstein, above, were both called liars this past week by incumbent top prosecutor Pat Jessamy. (I.V. File Photos/A.F. James MacArthur & Stephen Janis) IN CAMPAIGN FOR CITY STATE’S ATTORNEY, THE INCUMBENT PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS I am tough; I am smart; I am truthful (whereas) he continues to lie.— Patricia C. Jessamy DID THE CHALLENGER & THE COMMISH SHOOT THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT? Or was it Jessamy who did that to herself? PRACTICALLY A HOUSEHOLD WORD By Alan Z. Forman As the city state’s attorney repeatedly attacked her primary-election challenger for allegedly continuing “to lie” about her record, and the police commissioner who supports him removed two lawn signs within hours of the chief prosecutor’s call for an “independent fact finder” to determine at taxpayer expense whether the top cop had lied about a phone call, local news outlets began reporting at week’s end that the Baltimore political establishment was rallying “around Jessamy.” But was this truly the case? and even if it was, does it really matter? The implication of a headline in the Thursday editions of the Baltimore Sun — “Bealefeld removes campaign signs as political establishment rallies around Jessamy”— and the reports from other local media that followed was that challenger Gregg Bernstein and Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld had grossly miscalculated by posting lawn signs in the commissioner’s Southwest Baltimore yard touting the top cop’s support of the upstart challenger, whose name hardly anyone in the city even knew. Which is precisely the point. http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5571:lies-a-liars-bernstein-a-jessamy&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44 Add your comment

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