The reporting on the reasons behind Mike Green losing his Federal Judgeship display the D&C at its worst. They have made no effort to find out what really happened, but instead allow the implication to hang that local Republicans somehow caused it. They know better, but it serves their partisan purposes to protect Green from harm if the real story gets out.
Rumors abound regarding why the nomination was scuttled. It was not, as I initially thought, due to Republican Senators trying to tweak Chuck Schumer. Instead it appears that questions regarding green's personal conduct and ethics may have been raised. Certainly, if it was just normal D.C. politics, President Obama would be re-submitting the nomination. But Green's name will not be re-submitted.
In a city with a real newspaper, that would be a story that reporters would want to investigate. But not in Rochester, with our party organ paper.
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