The old Gull is pretty slick!

Have you seen the puff piece below the fold on the front page of today's T&G? I've watched with amusement as St. Marys incumbents have finagled their pre-election puff pieces into the pages of the T&G over the years. The usual modis operandi is to have your civics club - typically the PAC known as the St. Marys Kiwanis Club - name you their man / woman-of- the- year; most-congenial-and-photogenic-young-woman- that-all- of- the-older-male-members-have-the-hots-for, etc. Kyle Lewis was a master practitioner of the scam. I must say that Gull Weaver has come up with a new and novel excuse to get her name and some positive human interest fluff into the T&G the very week before qualifying by succcessfully selling a story on her and her husband's unique names. Of course, they had to find a third non-related person, Sarah Lee, to give it plausible deniability for being what it is. I've always wondered: do the publisher and editor just hold their noses, groan, and thank goodness they only have to entertain this sillyness once every couple of years? Maybe it is the implicit cost of later getting paid ads from these same pols.