Towards of the end of the Russ Lemmon piece linked above that focuses on WSPD's "grade-school route", comes this blurb:
POLITICS: Former WSPD news director Tom Watkins has been named communications director for Democrat Ted Stickland’s gubernatorial campaign in Toledo and Lucas County.
It could be a temporary arrangement. Watkins said it’s agreed that if he lands a full-time job, he can walk away.
Tom Watkins was the former news director at WSPD until his job was terminated by Brian Wilson. According to Ohio Media Watch back on May 10th:
OMW hears that long-time WSPD/1370 Toledo news director Tom Watkins has left the Clear Channel talk station after 7 years.
The Clear Channel Toledo cluster recently hired Cassie Wilson to oversee news at all of the company's stations. Wilson is the wife of WSPD program director and afternoon drive host Brian Wilson, and also anchors newscasts in afternoons on WSPD.
As Ohio Media Watch states, Kevin Milliken is doing the news spots, at least from what I've heard when I tune in.
My best wishes to Tom Watkins in this new position, and maybe since he's the new Communication Director he'll drop on by.
:-)
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Glad Tom landed on his feet after being unceremoniously dumped by WSPD.
He's got quite the challenge here in Lucas County.
Despite the division here in Lucas County it seems that Strickland is supported by both factions. While I can't help thinking that the Ohio Democratic Party could be a little more aggressive in trying to address/end some of what has happened here, I'm not sure how much of that will affect the Strickland or the Brown campaigns.
They obviously thought it was serious enough to not have their campaign offices located at the Lucas County Democratic Party headquarters. So that does at least to me send the message that they want to stay out of the fray even though it doesn't appear they want to or can end this.
"they want to stay out of the fray"
Elephant in the living room
I know that LD, but it's obvious that the ODP isn't going to do anything. Realistically them taking the step of not locating the Strickland/Brown headquarters here should have been a wake up call. But I'm not sure it was...
Best wishes to Tom Watkins.
Glad to see that Tom landed on his feet!
Although, when listenin to his news broadcasts, sometimes I had to wonder, "Was he listening to himself AND what the talk shows that he was often part of, were talikng about?
They often seemed to be 180 degrees apart. . .
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