Those people who say Saturday's wedding of the year was too political don't get it. It's like saying there's too many cops at a police officers wedding...or too many teachers when a NYSUT member gets hitched.
Events reflect the people involved and that doesn't bother me...
What always interests me at these events is how many people I don't know come up to tell me they read this blog religiously . They even cite a recent story to prove their allegiance. When I am told the bride's mom absolutely has to meet me because of a blog...well you know the media world is turned upside down.
Normally a local pol has a reach limited by what the media provides plus local social contacts.
Now I see why this blog galls traditional gatekeepers and creates a love/hate relationship with operatives who crave the exposure (like the photo all weekend on Newzjunky) but are paranoid I am not willing to be a house organ for their employer. Kind of like the way people suck up to and yet fear a Walter Winchell or a Bob Gorman.
My fellow Mayor Bill Nelson wanted his and his friend's photo on the blog, meanwhile elsewhere on the island nervous staffers looked at me like a lurker or a tracker, bordering on a gawker.
That's because they want to get publicity but also maintain the mantra that it's just another wedding...a private affair....like Bill Owens trip to Taiwan.
There was a ferocity in traditional media circles when Scott Gray started up his Political IV site a couple years back....They couldn't stand direct contact to the great unwashed. Scott was forced to back down.
It was similar with me, but I didn't do it anonymously. Now all of a sudden thousands of insiders read my missives about things others think is either not news or beneath them to cover. Besides, everybody and their brother had all sorts of photos on Facebook quicker than I.
It's not that out of control. I don't have an MGV chopper...not yet.
9 comments:
Mayor, I respectfully disagree when you dismiss the comments that the wedding was too political. You are in politics so you likely have a biased perspective. Doheny has only been in the political arena since 2009 but yet the wedding guest list was so heavily skewed toward political allies in leiu of the friends he had presumably collected over the last 40 plus years. I would have loved to have seen them get married after the election. Stuffing an engagement and wedding into 6 months that were already crammed with political campaigning and then throughout the wedding watching Matt focus almost exclusively on the the people who "matter" for his political career (at the expense of his friends and family) took away from the meaning of the wedding. I value the union of a wedding as one of the most special and personal events in your life...it is one of the few times in life when you really should "leave your work at the office".
11:24 sounds like he might be right. He should show us the guess list he must be privy to and show us the ratios of friends to "political connections" on that list.
Oh wait...I forgot Middle class mike is just a political operative and has no idea who was at the wedding and who was invited.
One thing is for sure. I would invite a nice guy like Graham to my wedding regardless of his politics. And if you spend your career on Wall Street doing the work of the devil as MCM would have us believe, it seems natural you would make friends with the friends of the devil...the politicians. Just as, if MCM got married, he would have the union boss Communists show up, along with ACORN...those are the people he hangs with.
What the Hell is "MGV" anyway? Apparently, it is your acronym of the week, but a Google search turns up nothing relevant.
MGV is Mayor Graham's View...the title of this blog.
As for the boating....that ship has sailed...and the DC steak house points how sad it is people sit in restaurants looking for stuff.
12:28 - you didn't need a guest list to figure it out, you just needed to look around at the reception. I met a small group of guys who were from his "pre-politics" life, but they were way out numbered. Way out numbered. It was a big production, but everything from his guest list to his demeanor to his speech was all about him running for congress. Face it, it was a campaign event. I am not judging whether that is right or wrong, it just is what it is. But it most certainly is.
2:09- I am all for privacy too, but I won't take it so far as to claim the person who reported Doheny's behavior in DC was in fact behaving worse then Doheny himself. He was in a public place. If the photos and video were taken while peeking through the windows of a hotel room, I would see your point completely, but he was in public. And he was even in DC strictly for political/congressional reasons, he wasn't cutting loose while on vacation or something. Even he admits he exercised bad judgement. I just have an issue with criticizing the "reporter" of the incident instead of Matt, no matter how politically motivated that reporter might have been.
You’re a legend in your own mind…
Anonymous said...
What the Hell is "MGV" anyway? Apparently, it is your acronym of the week, but a Google search turns up nothing relevant.
July 2, 2012 1:41 PM
That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
In order for google to know the acronym it would take more than one dumb person googling it.
When I google "MGV mayor" the first four of the 171k hits are the mayor's blog
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