Were the Koch and Brodkorb resignations connected in, you know, THAT WAY?

[Brickbat]

Everybody's talking about it, of course, except most of the media, and I think Brauer over at MinnPost does a good idea of looking at why:

http://www.minnpost.com/braublog/2011/12/22/34030/should_the_media_report_brodkorb_rumors_in_koch_scandal

Meanwhile, on WCCO-TV’s “Sunday Morning,” host Esme Murphy asked Senate Deputy Majority Leader Geoff Michel point blank: Is that staffer Michael Brodkorb?

Michel’s answer likely provides some insight into why the Star Tribune, Pioneer Press, MPR, Associated Press and MinnPost have not broached the subject: No one has confirmed it. “The law prohibits me from talking about any specific Senate employees or even former Senate employees," Michel replied. "So there’s a legal process that will surround that.”

I say “likely provides some insight” because the Strib, PiPress and MPR did not respond to an email asking for their thinking on rumor reporting; AP bureau chief Dave Pyle replied simply: “In this case, we’ll let our coverage speak for itself.”

I asked Chris Ison, a Pulitzer-winning former Star Tribune investigative reporter now teaching at the University of Minnesota, what he would do here.

[Angry Dragon]

1. I like this letter sent to Koch

An Open Apology to Amy Koch on Behalf of All Gay and Lesbian Minnesotans

Dear Ms. Koch,

On behalf of all gays and lesbians living in Minnesota, I would like to wholeheartedly apologize for our community's successful efforts to threaten your traditional marriage. We are ashamed of ourselves for causing you to have what the media refers to as an "illicit affair" with your staffer, and we also extend our deepest apologies to him and to his wife. These recent events have made it quite clear that our gay and lesbian tactics have gone too far, affecting even the most respectful of our society.

We apologize that our selfish requests to marry those we love has cheapened and degraded traditional marriage so much that we caused you to stray from your own holy union for something more cheap and tawdry. And we are doubly remorseful in knowing that many will see this as a form of sexual harassment of a subordinate.

It is now clear to us that if we were not so self-focused and myopic, we would have been able to see that the time you wasted diligently writing legislation that would forever seal the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, could have been more usefully spent reshaping the legal definition of "adultery."

Forgive us. As you know, we are not church-going people, so we are unable to fully appreciate that "gay marriage" is incompatible with Christian values, despite the fact that those values carry a biblical tradition of adultery such as yours. We applaud you for keeping that tradition going.

And finally, shame on us for thinking that marriage is a private affair, and that our marriage would have little impact on anyone's family. We now see that marriage is more than that. It is an agreement with society. We should listen to the Minnesota Family Council when it tells us that marriage is about being public, which explains why marriages are public ceremonies. Never did we realize that it is exactly because of this societal agreement that the entire world is looking at you in shame and disappointment instead of minding its own business.

From the bottom of our hearts, we ask that you please accept our apology.

Thank you.
John Medeiros
Minneapolis MN

[Brickbat]

2. I posted that but it got lost in the great GD fire.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100258805

[Angry Dragon]

3. It is not lost

If you go to it and look at edits it will show
what you originally posted and you should be
able to edit it back as good as new if you wish

[Brickbat]

4. Thankya!

[MineralMan]

5. At this point, I suppose so, but it hardly matters any longer.

The GOP is in disarray, Koch is finished, and life goes on. The more trouble the MN GOP has, the better for all of us.