There was a blogger on the Sandusky Register Forum site that criticized this website and the Firelands 411 website. The Forum thread titled “Firelands411 and the ‘Remove Johnson’ blogs” where the creator of the thread, Oliver Hardy, states On September 27, 2009, that both this blog, and Firelands411 are “dead.” He feels that he was mistreated on the 411 blog, and upset with this blog for not providing more information on “threatening emails” by Elsabeth Baumgartner (which we had eluded to briefly in a previous comment).
His first comment was in reference to the COC article “Areas of Concern 8: Have Case Files Properly Filed Away”
Mr. Hardy’s August 19, 2009 comment was:
“Anonymous said... To ‘The Editor’
I am commenting for the first time here. I am researching the Elsebeth Baumgartner case and other cases. Please provide examples of "threatening emails" to Markus.
Oliver Hardy”
To which COC Watch replied on August 20, 2009:
THE EDITOR said...
Mr. Hardy –
I want to keep this blog on topic. Since this blog is about Barbara Johnson and not Elsebeth Baumgartner I do not want to get into a discussion about Baumgartner. I would love to discuss anything about Johnson. If you are doing research on EB, then I suggest that you google "Elsebeth Baumgartner threatening emails" and I'm sure you'll get a list of what you need there for your research.
If you have any comments and/or questions about Barbara Johnson and the Erie County Clerk of Courts Office, I would be more than happy to address those issues.”
A couple of days later (9/29/09), Mr. Hardy states on the same SR Forum thread:
“I recently checked out the "Remove Johnson" blog and saw four entries by the "Editor" of the blog with no responses from the readers. Nada, zilch, zero responses in almost a month.”
October 6, 2009, we responded to Mr. Hardy’s comments on the SR Forum:
“First, I did not create COC blog necessarily for people to have a discussion on (however if they want to and stay on topic, that is fine). I created the blog to educate the voters of Erie County on how Barb Johnson is not doing her job and needs to be voted out in the next election. It was created to be an information blog, not a discussion blog.
Secondly, the COC blog is far from being "Dead." I judge the success of the blog not by how many people comment on it, but rather how many people log on and read it. According to the "website hit tracker" that I use, July had 575 hits, August had 640 and September 595. That's an average of 602 hits per month and an average of 150 hits per week. That is all with no advertisement of any kind, just word of mouth. To me, that shows a pretty good success and that the blog is not dead, nor even dying.
I would expect (and hope) that the hits will increase overtime (as they continue to do) especially as we near the 2012 election.”
As the editor of this site, I stand by our policy that this sight is about Barb Johnson and is not meant to be a forum for Elsabeth Baumgartner or anyone else. It is about Barb Johnson, period.
I also stand by the fact that this is an “INFORMATIONAL” site, and NOT a “discussion” site. If people want to discuss Johnson and the COC, great, but that is not what is expected. INFORMATION is the purpose of this site; getting the public educated on how the current Erie County COC is being run so that Johnson does not get re-elected for a 7th term in office.
So there it is folks; the hits are high and climbing. If you want to comment, keep it on topic (Erie County COC and Barb Johnson).
Next week’s article will be about personnel changing in the office.
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Good job. Keep up the work on revealing the inadequacies of Johnson's operation. She definitely has not delivered what she is supposed to do nor what she had promised to. How can voters who have supported her hold their head high and say their vote counted for the betterment of the community and county.
ReplyDeleteRE: Anonymous -
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words and words of encouragement.
The voters who supported her can NOT hold their heads high and say their vote counted for the betterment of the county. Why? Because she has done NOTHING and by her continued action (or should I say lack there of) she continues to hurt the county and rob the tax payers.
The most recent Nov. 1, 2009 comment on that Forum by Oliver Hardy about this particular article just shows how immature and stupid Oliver is. Case and point:
ReplyDelete1) I for one would love to see Ollie's website, but he doesn't have one.
2) He doesn't like the fact that COC watch had a week with no article because of situations "beyond our control," then he accuses the editor of "being drunk."
3) Then he seems to be so excited that the second week was about him that it looks like he just pissed his pants.
4) He thinks the added web traffic is because of the link on Firelands411 (how stupid is that)
5) He critical of a quote from you in his own SR forum, but doesn't respond to it until the editor of COC Watch puts it in this article; I guess he's a bit slow on the draw there.
I'm sure before it's all over, this will be some sort of imagined conspiracy in his little pea-brain.
It looks like Ollie got his feelings hurt again by Remove Johnson with this thread.
ReplyDeleteDarn you Remove Johnson people, you better stop making sense all the time. It just hurts people's feelings (Hardy) and holds them accountable (Johnson). :(
Yeah, that Ollie is such a "sensative" guy.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that o'le Ollie posted another post about this site on the same thread (11/5 @ 1025).
ReplyDeleteI know why Ollie is doing this to the Remove Johnson website. "For know, I will note reveal what I know." I will reveal it to the readers at a later date.
Mr Editor, I can not email you to reveal it to you either because the time is not yet right to do so. But I will reveal it in due time.
To anonymous at Nov. 6:
ReplyDelete? ? ? ? ? ?
TO: Anonymous poster on Nov. 7 -
ReplyDeleteI think Anonymous poster on Nov. 6 was imitating Oliver Hardy.