Over the next few weeks Michigan Radio’s Senior Political Analyst Jack Lessenberry will be speaking with candidates running for office this November. He will also be talking with those who are for and against this year’s ballot proposals. Today, Jack speaks with Democratic State Senator Mark Schauer. He is running against the Republican incumbent Tim Walberg in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District. We had hoped to speak with both candidates however, Congressman Walberg declined to be interviewed for this program.
Gee, whoever might have guessed that Tim Walberg might skip the chance to be interviewed by Jack Lessenberry?
After all, what did Jack Lessenberry ever do to Tim Walberg?
Well, it is true that Mr. Lessenberry referred to the Congressman as "knuckle-dragging Tim Walberg" in a recent column in the Metro Times.
And, yeah there were those numerous columns promoting Joe Schwarz and attacking Walberg in the Toledo Blade, the Traverse City Record-Eagle, and a number of similar comments on this very website, plus a series of interviews with Walberg's primary-victim, Schwarz, and the raving, obscenity-spiced, name-calling attacks on the Bush Administration, and... well, you get the idea.
Too bad that Michgigan Radio's "Senior News Analyst" is such a polarizing figure in journalism that a member of the state's Congressional delegation won't even talk to him.
Posted by: Anonymous | October 09, 2008 at 09:28 PM
Just one more point on this interview and the commentary.
It's nice that Mr. Lessenberry apparently invited Congressman Walberg, although Walberg declined. But there was no mention of Sharon Renier, who is also running, as an independent.
Does Ms. Renier get an invite? Or is the main thesis, "See what Michigan Public Radio can do to insure a Democrat win in a swing district"?
Posted by: Anonymous | October 09, 2008 at 09:40 PM