Thank you.

I’m not alleging any grand conspiracy, Rose. I’ve said my piece.

When it came to the last-ditch dirty-tricks peddling, Hank was right.

But I guess you’d rather have him pushing some inflammatory info without time to vet the info – and that’s a slippery slope, Mitch. Allegations could be slung, and found to be false, too late.

And your buddy, Sara the Dog was slinging a lot of that kind of garbage last go round.

I’ll ignore the fact that you pose the question here after I’ve said I’m really, really done.

I am not the tipster. Also, I am not Heraldo or one of the Heraldos. Also, I was not involved in anyone’s campaign in this election or (I’m pretty sure) anything since the recall.

I even think this candidate may well turn out to be a fine official, though his behavior at the start of the campaign was ill-advised and I don’t think people reckless enough to have a DUI should be running for office within the next few years. I understand that people make terrible errors of judgment; unlike Kevin, I think there needs to be at least a period of a few years between an obvious and serious error of judgement and a candidacy for public office.

But my disgust is not with the candidate, which is why I jump through the ludicrous-appearing hoop of avoiding the candidate’s name. My disgust is with the Humboldt press corpse.

“The tipster told us that he was someone “who helps journalists do their jobs,” but it was pretty plain that the opposite was in fact the case: He wanted journalists to help him do his.”

Begs the question – are you the mysterious “tipster?”

Not to mention that the pig should really leave.

It seems extraordinarily risky for a campaign to assume that rumors won’t get to the press, somehow, if a reporter is following the campaign. And once a reporter gets the rumor, it’s all public record.