Hoffman: Damned If Do, Damned If Don’t

Wayne Hoffman /Idaho Freedom Foundation comments: Guess it is time for me to weigh in here (re: Trillhaase: Jeers to Idaho Reporter):

• 1. I didn’t know about the Minnick franking story until I read it on the IdahoReporter.com site. So blaming me for not insisting that Bill Sali be mentioned in the Minnick story is like blaming the Lewiston Tribune’s publisher for a story that runs in that paper. I don’t handle the day-to-day reporting.
• 2. Should the story have mentioned Sali? Maybe, maybe not. A little context would have been useful (comparing Minnick’s spending with Sali’s, for example). I would have been supportive of that.
• 3. The story was about what Minnick said vs. what he does today, and so I can see how ANY reporter would have focused on that and not on Sali. In fact, were I not the publisher of IdahoReporter.com , I doubt anyone would have even raised the question of what Sali spent
• Full statement from Wayne Hoffman/Idaho Freedom Foundation