Mrs. Jubal and I hosted our 2nd Annual "St. Paddy's Day...South of the Border" party this past March 17, and Orange County Employees Association General Manager Nick Berardino was among our guests.
Nick and I obviously don't see eye-to-eye on a number of issues, but I like and respect Nick very much. He fights hard for what he believes, but doesn't make it personal.
In any case, at the party Nick presented me with this, the OCEA "Blemmy" (short for "blog Emmy") for our coverage of the 1st Supervisor District special election:
I think it is a wonderful irony that center-right Red County/OC Blog's very first blog award should come from a government employee union.
Thank you, Nick! And also thanks tot he rest of the Blogpen, to whom this award belongs, including Quang Pham and especially Mark Leyes. Without Mark's reporting, commenting and analysis, our coverage of the special election wouldn't have been nearly as good or complete.
You better examine that award carefully, look for hidden transmitters, things like that. Heh.
Posted by: Screech | April 01, 2007 at 07:43 AM
Is it ticking?
Posted by: redperegrine | April 01, 2007 at 08:09 AM
Where is the bug?
Posted by: demmother | April 01, 2007 at 08:34 PM
You silly conspiracy theorists --- always looking for the clever plan that isn't there and missing the obvious.
Of course there isn't a bug. Look at the shape of the award: OCEA is clearly hoping someone at Red County grabs that big, nasty spearhead and "goes postal" - albeit neolithically.
Omaybe OCEA, like many of the rest of us, really appreciated Matt's thorough, at times even tedious[*], coverage.
GREAT WORK, MATT!
[*] I mean "tedious" at a compliment. Much of what was being covered was tedious, which is why a blog could outperform the legacy media. Matt could stay on the story even when it was clear the story that day would be uninteresting for that day's news cycle.
Posted by: tylerh | April 02, 2007 at 10:34 AM