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Posts published by “Fred Gardner”

The Prankster Stops Laughing

Roger Stone played a key role in stopping the recount of votes in Florida that would have cost George W. Bush the Presidency in 2000. He reprised his role post-Election Day in 2020 on behalf…

The Steal That Didn’t Get Stopped

There’s papers here. There’s papers there. Could be a desk underneath somewhere.  Entropy got a hold of me inexorably. I keep a stack of items that seem worth quoting if and when a hook presents…

Our Times: Watergate at 50

I went to see Woodward playing Redford Dustin Hoffman played by Carl Bernstein Martha Mitchell, who really blew the whistle never got mentioned.  She got no credit on the silver screen. Barry Sussman, whose obit…

A ‘Perfy’ For The Claremont

For planting this item in the East Bay Express, the Claremont Hotel in Oakland deserves a Perfy (the PR industry’s coveted Perfumes-of-Arabia award for best cleansing of a company’s image): “Some cities have wine trails.…

MUDdy Waters

“The East Bay Municipal Utility District Board of Directors voted Tuesday to cap water usage for households in much of Contra Costa and Alameda counties, including Oakland and Berkeley — marking a significant step to…

Bet On It

Watching the NBA playoffs means exposure to ads every time a coach calls time out or the refs consult the videographers in Secaucus, New Jersey, to decide whether that elbow to the face was a…

QAnon at the Border

The photo was inked so dark in the print edition it was easy to miss the slogan emblazoned on a flag off to the right. One’s eye was drawn to the center — the back of…

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