Ohio Mayor Cusses Out 'Broke-Down, Lizard-Looking' Blogger
When blogger Robert Forrey e-mailed Portsmouth, Ohio mayor Jim Kalb with an innocent-enough public records request, he probably wasn't expecting to have his likeness compared to a lizard. That's exactly what he got, though, along with a profanity-laced torrent of Haterade. The Huffington Post reports that Forrey, a retired English teacher and author of the blog River Vices, had contacted Kalb with a public records request concerning a controversial park project. The mayor responded on September 27th with a lengthy e-mail, the entirety of which can be found here.
Kalb starts off cordially enough, agreeing to provide the records, though wondering why Forrey would really need tangible evidence of their existence when such existence had already confirmed verbally. (Weird reasoning, but okay, moving on...) Then, the mayor goes absolutely Bill O'Reilly on Forrey, unleashing the following tirade:
If there is anything else that I can do for you, which is required by law, don't hesitate to call my office. If it isn't required by law then don't bother asking, because I think that you're a worthless piece of s**t and I wouldn't p**s on you if you were on fire (my opinion). You're a poor, lonely, jealous, old man with aspirations of being a writer. You write your lies and uneducated opinions on people and issues from behind the safety of your slobber stained keyboard with the hope that somebody will read them that doesn't know you and believe that you're more than the pitiful, broke-down, lizard-looking thing that you are, in my opinion. Get a life old man. On second thought, don't bother..............
I do have a question for you. Do you have family and if so do they even like you?
Then, for his final act, the mayor magically transforms himself into a 12 year old:
Looking forward to your next Internet issue of "FORREY'S FOLLIES".....NOOOTTTTTT
With little respect for you,
Mayor James D. Kalb
I do have a question for you. Do you have family and if so do they even like you?
Then, for his final act, the mayor magically transforms himself into a 12 year old:
Looking forward to your next Internet issue of "FORREY'S FOLLIES".....NOOOTTTTTT
With little respect for you,
Mayor James D. Kalb
When contacted for comment, Kalb stood by his words, and scolded Forrey for making it public. Granted, there's probably a whole back story of acrimony here that we're not privy to. And Kalb, in classic "He Started It" justification, accused Forrey of slandering his family and spreading lies about his mayoral reign. Whatever the story, though, it's pretty shocking that politicians continue to make such boneheaded moves, apparently still under the illusion that e-mails run exclusively on two-way streets, immune to copy-paste. [From: Huffington Post]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Praise the Lord said 12:11PM on 10-05-2009
The mayor's e-mail mimics the type of writers you will find on the Huffington Post! LOL
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Rob said 1:17PM on 10-05-2009
Sounds like an episode of Rec and Parks! Writers of the show should take note.
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Bill Carithers said 7:52PM on 10-05-2009
Bill O'Reilly does not unleash tirades unless they are deserved but even he is a little too liberal for this writer. But to describe someone who blows up and expounds with worthless diatriabe as "Bill O'Reilly like" makes the author of this comment too leftist for me.
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