What's the Roundup got against local Democrats?

LETTER

LETTER

LETTER

(The following letter from local Democratic Party leader Jerry Foster was addressed to state Democratic leaders. We reprint it here because it reinforces something we have complained about for years - a local newspaper that is not always fair and unbiased. According to Foster, the letter referenced below was denied by the Roundup because it exceeded their 400 word limit, but the Republican letter it was responding to was far in excess of that same limit. The Gazette Blog, with over 5,000 monthly readers, welcomes letters of all political persuasions and lengths. Send them to peoplesgazette@gmail.com  Chances are the Roundup will make a token effort to clean up their act after reading this on the Blog.  They usually do.  But just for emphasis, we hereby implore them to run the referenced letters.  And if they don't, an effective way to respond to this outrage is to call and cancel your subscription. That's one language they understand.) 

We need some help here in Gila County. Our local paper, the Payson Roundup (published on Tuesdays and Fridays only), consistently allows Tea Party and Republican views to be published without question and our Democratic views are many times not allowed.

As President of the Democratic Club of Northern Gila County and Secretary of the Gila County Democrats, I and others have encouraged rebuttal letters to let citizens know that there are Democrats in the area that care about our local, county, state, and national politics.

Don Ascoli, President of the Republicans of Gila County, wrote a piece in the August 23rd Roundup that needed to be challenged.

I wrote a piece for this Friday's paper and one of our new members wrote another. His has so far been denied.

We have several other local on-line news organizations with writers that we try to use that have been blackballed by the Payson Roundup.

We have a problem in getting talking points on the below subjects and others. We all agree that our points must be factual.

Can and will you help us find accurate talking points for the subjects below?

Thank you for your help and leadership.

Gerald W. "Jerry" Foster