Roger Stone, a Republican PR hit man, took quite a shot at The Plain Dealer’s Susan Goldberg, on the Issue 3 coverage: “PD Editor Pimps for Casino Gambling.”

She claims “to be an objective and principled journalist but her actions during Ohio’s recent campaign over casino gaming demonstrates that she is neither,” writes Stone in his blog “StoneZone.”

He was a hired gun against Issue 3.

He also calls Dan Gilbert a “nouveau rich loud mouth.” Pithy stuff.

You can read how Goldberg distorted a poll, giving Issue 3 some needed boosting. It worked.

The full posting can be found here:

http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=286

As I’ve said before, the Pee Dee allowed editorializing to spread across its front news page on Issue 3 and, of course, on Issue 6.