As the Fritz Cartel continues to attack the actions of Rossignol on the infamous election day, it leaves a disturbing, unanswered question.

Why didn't Fritz just hold a press conference about the rape well before the election and tell people his version of what happened instead of being involved with the Sheriff's Department in the "Newspaper Caper" that cost the county $425,000.00?

Afterall, he didn't hesitate to do it with the THA:

Reader's Letter: Richard D. Fritz: Fradulent Sample Ballots - Southern Maryland News, Charles County, Calvert County and St. Mary's County News (http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/19512)

I worked on the Fritz campaign when he ran for States Attorney the first time.

Vrai: "That's where the misleading part comes in. When I saw the headline, my first impression was that Fritz was found guilty of forcible rape recently. Then the light came on and I thought, "Wait a minute - I just saw him the other day. " So I read the story and found that it was a statutory rape when he was a kid.

And I can't possibly be the only person who got the wrong idea from that headline. Rossignol did it to purposely mislead people who would see the headline before they went out to vote. He's a big Dorsey guy and he can deny it all he wants but I know damn good and well that he set out to intentionally torpedo Fritz's chances in that election."

http://forums.somd.com/my-opinion/48803-do-they-think-we-re-idiots.html#post962425

Since you brought it up lets examine the Paper caper.

1. Rossignols timing in plastering the "rape" tag the night before the election is beyond repugnant and lacks any decency at all let alone have any journalistic integrity. I guess it could be said the ROSSIGNOL PUT FRITZ IN OFFICE. Yes, you heard me. In case you didn't I will say it again ROSSIGNOL PUT FRITZ IN OFFICE.

2. According to the 20/20 interview Rossignol uncovered this issue well ahead of time and waited to use it when HE thought it would be the biggest bomb and Fritz would not have time to refute or talk to the allegation thus sinking his campaign. It is arguable that the circulation and reputation of the St. Mary's Today in 1998 was substantial enough that the headline would have scuttled Fritz's election in the few short hours from he time it was delivered to stores and the polls closing. Many people would not see the paper, many would roll their eyes given Rossignols lack of journalistic integrity and outright propensity for lying.

"Several deputies in the Sheriff’s Office anticipated that the election day issue of St. Mary’s Today would be critical of them and their favored candidates, particularly Voorhaar and Fritz. Over the course of a series of meetings and conversations, both on the job at the Sheriff’s Office and in the evening at private homes, some of the deputies formulated a plan to deal with this problem. They decided to form two teams on election day, each comprising three sheriff’s deputies, and buy out the stock of St. Mary’s Today at vending locations throughout the county. They viewed the seizure as a "good opportunity" for two things: "to piss [Rossignol] off" and to "protest [their] disagreement" with Rossignol’s "irresponsible journalism." They planned to stage a "bonfire party" when the seizure was completed."

As the Fritz Cartel continues to attack the actions of Rossignol on the infamous election day, it leaves a disturbing, unanswered question.."[/I]

Ah..so that's why you bunch of trolls are so clearly disturbed. I wondered what triggered it.

This just hot off the press from todays paper....

The Enterprise
Friday, Oct. 22, 2010

By JOHN WHARTON
Staff writer

Brown sentenced to term in prison

Judge says state's attorney candidate John Mattingly
also tried to cheat people in real-estate dealings


A two-year investigation of real-estate fraud and witness tampering
resulted this week in a prison sentence for Daniel Jason Brown,
and a judge's rebuke of state's attorney candidate John Mattingly

Mattingly (D) did not attend his real-estate partner's sentencing hearing.

"I frankly don't think you were the instigator in any of these things,
but you played a major role," Judge Wallace said, and he barred Brown
from having any contact with John Mattingly after Brown is
released from custody and begins five years of supervised probation.

"The two of you together (Mattingly & Brown) did operate your business corruptly,"
Judge Wallace said, "in an effort to cheat other people."

Renee Joy, assistant Prince George's prosecutor, spoke of Brown's conduct.
"His work ethic was proven to be shortcuts and scamming innocent people
to line his own pockets," Joy said. "He thinks that he's above the law."

In the home-improvement case, Joy said, "Mr. Brown was showing the
epitome of greed. He was taking advantage of an elderly woman who was
an amputee and had recently lost her husband."

for full story click on link below
Brown sentenced to term in prison (http://www.somdnews.com/stories/10222010/entetop170421_32304.shtml)

Ah..so that's why you bunch of trolls are so clearly disturbed. I wondered what triggered it.

We already know how you feel about Fritz's rape victim Gilligan.

If..after almost 40 years,,she has not...yes, she needs that phone call.

We already know how you feel about Fritz's rape victim Gilligan.

Do you now? And I'm sure you will do me the favor of quoting what I said about her so I don't have to go find it myself. Thanks in advance.

Was this some huge secret? I had never heard it until the paper came out, but most of the old countians that I spoke to about it were like, old news :yawn: Plus it's a matter of public record.

Should Fritz go out each year, maybe each month, and give a press conference detailing the charge and telling his side of it? You know, just to make absolute certain everyone in his voting district knows about it?

Will John Mattingly do this for his fraud allegations and the judicial decision that he's a con man each time he runs for a public office?

Was this some huge secret? I had never heard it until the paper came out, but most of the old countians that I spoke to about it were like, old news :yawn: Plus it's a matter of public record.

Should Fritz go out each year, maybe each month, and give a press conference detailing the charge and telling his side of it? You know, just to make absolute certain everyone in his voting district knows about it?

Will John Mattingly do this for his fraud allegations and the judicial decision that he's a con man each time he runs for a public office?

You mean you worked on his campaign never knowing that he had committed a rape? He didn't even tell the campaign workers how to handle it?

You must be proud of helping to put a rapist in office.

Nice to see you showing your true feelings about Mattingly now too.

:jameo:

Was this some huge secret? I had never heard it until the paper came out, but most of the old countians that I spoke to about it were like, old news :yawn: Plus it's a matter of public record.

Should Fritz go out each year, maybe each month, and give a press conference detailing the charge and telling his side of it? You know, just to make absolute certain everyone in his voting district knows about it?

Will John Mattingly do this for his fraud allegations and the judicial decision that he's a con man each time he runs for a public office?

WOW

You must be proud of helping to put a rapist in office.

Actually he lost that year.

Actually he lost that year.

Did the throw his campaign workers under the bus?

Did the throw his campaign workers under the bus?

Not that I'm aware of.

Some of Mattingly's campaign volunteers
are already on the Bus heading towards
Jessup Md ........The House of Correction

You mean you worked on his campaign never knowing that he had committed a rape? He didn't even tell the campaign workers how to handle it?

You must be proud of helping to put a rapist in office.:lol:

Nice to see you showing your true feelings about Mattingly now too.So we can put you down as wanting Mattingly to be treated by a different, lesser standard than his opponents. Check. :yay:

:lol:

So we can put you down as wanting Mattingly to be treated by a different, lesser standard than his opponents. Check. :yay:

Help my memory out here.

What was it again that Mattingly WAS CONVICTED OF?

:whistle:

What was it again that Mattingly WAS CONVICTED OF?See, this is how you make it so bloody obvious that you are Ken's new MPD. He/you used to play the same sneaky game by asking people to show where he/you had been convicted of libel, as if the lack of a conviction implied he/you was a snow white saint. :rolleyes:

You really should have taken the time to build a slightly different M.O.; this one was old a month ago.

Amazing nobody can answer the simple question of why didn't Fritz just get out there ahead of Rossignol and announce his criminal history?

It would have blown Rossignol's paper sales that day.

It would have kept Sheriff deputies from committing a crime to protect Fritz.

It would have saved the County $425,000.00

What did Fritz have to hide about that old conviction?

:whistle:

See, this is how you make it so bloody obvious that you are Ken's new MPD. He/you used to play the same sneaky game by asking people to show where he/you had been convicted of libel, as if the lack of a conviction implied he/you was a snow white saint. :rolleyes:

You really should have taken the time to build a slightly different M.O.; this one was old a month ago.

That challenge still stands.

Show a Rossignol lost court case for libel or slander?

C'mon, where is it?

If you can't show it then you're talking B.S, which is widely known already.

Amazing nobody can answer the simple question of why didn't Fritz just get out there ahead of Rossignol and announce his criminal history?

It would have blown Rossignol's paper sales that day.

It would have kept Sheriff deputies from committing a crime to protect Fritz.

It would have saved the County $425,000.00

What did Fritz have to hide about that old conviction?

:whistle:

I got a D one time in my grade school
Religon class but I don't exactly add it
to my current resume

BSGal is right. Rossignol has been doing business in St. Mary's for as long as I can remember. And he has backers that finance him, so he doesn't really have to turn a profit. Why does he have these powerful backers and what are they getting out of it? I have no idea. But he's not going away, I guarantee you, whether his businesses get boycotted or not.

That whole "paper caper" episode is a great example of how it works with him. He can print "Fritz Rapes Girl" on the front page in huge letters the day
before election day, with no details unless you actually read the article on the inside. And that's not considered a violation of any type. But for off-duty deputies to *purchase* the papers with private money (not county funds) was ruled to be a violation of his freedom of the press.

Think about that - someone *buying* his papers is a violation of his rights. And the county had to pay him big buckaroonies for it. Your tax dollars at
work.

Amazing.

:popcorn:

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Dorsey Blasts Fritz Over Failing To Account For Drug Funds, Lying About Gambling


COMPTON (October 1998) --- St. Mary’s States Attorney Walter B. Dorsey accused Richard Fritz, his former deputy who is running as a Republican to succeed him, with maliciously and falsely attacking his political enemies while serving as deputy states attorney as well as failing to account for thousands of dollars in drug funds administered by Fritz in 1992. Dorsey also called Fritz’s attempt to convince citizens that would be a tough antidrug prosecutor a "masquerade" and he promised to "unmask" Fritz .
Walter Dorsey;

Dorsey said;
"The Office of States Attorney of St. Mary’s County is very important and it should not be used as a way to attack political enemies or to attack anyone and hold them up to public ridicule. One cannot talk about what took place in a Grand Jury room if an indictment is not forthcoming, in order to protect the Grand Jury process. The same is true if an investigation does not yield an indictment or criminal charges."
Dorsey;
" I am going to say some things tonight that I could not before," warned Dorsey. "You may remember some articles in the paper a few years ago, they surfaced because Richard Fritz misrepresented to the local press that he had evidence that Sheriff Wayne Pettit and Commissioner Eddie Bailey were gambling with drug dealers and prostitutes in an illegal gambling hall."
"Fritz later told me he knew nothing about it when the articles were published," said Dorsey. "I met with the officials of the Maryland State Police and they reported to me that they had no evidence of Bailey and Pettit playing cards or being in the Cinderblock Building."
"The only evidence that Fritz had was a drug dealer named Gary Lee Stanley, whom he gave $4,000 in drug fund money to probably play cards with," said Dorsey. "Fritz misrepresented to the press that these public officials were gambling in there, he used this office to embarrass Pettit and Bailey for political purposes because he supported their opponents."
Dorsey said that Fritz knew that the state police reported to him that they had not been able to collaborate the information from the drug dealer after they sent an undercover investigator in to gamble at the Cinderblock Building. When Fritz then turned around and gave out information about the gambling investigation, which the state police say did not produce any incriminating evidence against the two officials, Dorsey equated that act with revealing Grand Jury testimony.Following the publication of several articles about the alleged presence of the sheriff and the county commissioner in the Cinderblock Building the two filed a $1.5 million libel suit against the newspaper. Prior to publication of the articles, Pettit and Bailey failed to comment on the allegations when asked for comment, an act that contributed to their plight.
After a year and a half of legal proceedings, the newspaper proved it’s reliance upon Fritz, as a public official, as the source of information on Pettit and Bailey being in the building. Fritz gave a affidavit certifying he supplied information about the sheriff and commissioner frequenting the gambling hall to the newspaper. Upon discovering that fact, the two plaintiffs were forced to drop their suit as the newspaper had every right to report to it’s readers the information it relied upon from Fritz, as deputy states attorney, to be accurate and true, and therefore, did not act in a malicious manner.
Fritz Lied To Newspaper, and Public Dorsey said after the speech last Thursday that he felt Fritz’s misuse of prosecutorial powers was outrageous, in that he apparently deliberately misled the newspaper about the truth concerning Bailey and Pettit; that not only did the former prosecutor lie and hurt them, but he also lied to everyone in St. Mary’s County.
"We have just seen this vividly demonstrated that when the president admitted that he lied to the nation when he spoke on television in January, that when a public official lies to a newspaper about a material fact, that he is lying to the entire community as well when that information is published and relied upon by the publisher and the readers to be true," said Dorsey.
"A public official, which is what Fritz was when he was a member of my office," said Dorsey, "has to tell the public the truth, and in this matter he did not. He thrived on manipulating, lying and misleading and therefore, by having the newspaper, Pettit and Bailey all fighting each other, he was able to stand aside with amusement at the results of his political manipulations with ST. MARY’S TODAY taking the sheriff and the commissioner to task for being in the gambling hall when they actually were not."
Dorsey said that when he confronted Fritz about the information contained in the articles; that Fritz denied having contacted the state police about the alleged activities in the Cinderblock Building and the alleged presence of the sheriff and the commissioner.
Dorsey said that Fritz claimed the state police probe at the Cinderblock Building began as an offshoot of a gambling operation in Charlotte Hall.
That operation was later halted after state police conducted a raid and made several arrests.
When Dorsey went back to the state police about the matter, they gave him a copy of the letter Fritz had sent them as an official request for an investigation, after having it typed by his wife who works in the prosecutor’s office, requesting the state police investigate the presence of the two officials in the gambling hall which formerly was located next to the Sign of the Whale Liquors in Lexington Park.
Dorsey said when he confronted Fritz about lying to him that there were also other issues taking place at the same time which led to Fritz walking out, quitting his job with no notice or regard for the several drug cases he was handling and returning to the practice of law which has led him to become the principal attorney for all of the local drug dealers.Fritz ran for election as states attorney in 1994, a race he lost in the Democratic Primary and is running once again this year, but now as a newly minted Republican.

Fritz Repeatedly Failed To Give Accounting For Drug FundFritz was also accused by Dorsey on Thursday of failing to ever account for thousands of dollars that passed through a drug fund over which the deputy prosecutor had control.
"We had a drug fund that was not audited by the county, but was administered by Fritz," said Dorsey. "He would not account for the money. I told him to give an accounting of the money and instead, he quit."
"I repeatedly asked Fritz for a proper accounting of the money, thousands of dollars, and he never provided any such accounting," explained Dorsey in an interview after the rally. "He would direct that checks be issued to him and not to any specific person. No record was ever furnished as to what then happened to the money. $3,200 in supposedly ‘flash money’ which is never spent and always returned has never been accounted for."
Fritz, at the time, responded to the warning of the state police that they would not trust him with secret information, by saying he would drop cases in which they failed to give him prior information."Fritz has masqueraded as being tough on drugs long enough and it is time to unmask him," said Dorsey. "He is the attorney for all the drug dealers in the county. He portrays himself as if he is the opponent of drug dealers, but the facts prove otherwise."
"In the last few years that he was my deputy and in charge of the narcotics division, there were 302 drug distribution cases, serious cases, and there could reasons to drop a few cases, but not the 201 cases that Fritz personally dropped," pointed out Dorsey about Fritz’s record.
"But now that Fritz is campaigning, he has the audacity to say he will fight the drug dealers," said Dorsey at the meeting.
Later, the chief prosecutor stated bluntly; "Fritz has lied repeatedly about these matters. His record as a prosecutor was certainly not what he portrayed to the public and now he makes a very good living off the drug dealers, many of whom, pay their attorney fees in the same cash they make from those who are addicted to and use illegal narcotics --- the very same cash generated from the two-thirds of crime, chiefly burglaries of homes and businesses."
Richard Fritz did not return a call requesting comment on Dorsey’s charges prior to press deadline.


Themis

One of the best thing people will say about John Mattingly is "he's no quitter". He stands up to bullies, and fights them off.
John Mattingly is the right man! At the right time for Saint Mary's County!

Crime Down 36% ?
Someone needs to tell the people of Lexington Park, especially along the Great Mills Rd Corridor that Crime is down.
That area of the County is so crime ridden that WAWA closed their store there because of the numerous Robberies, Drug Deals, and Assaults that occurred on their property. They closed the store because they feared for the safety of their employees.
WAWA is a huge chain operation that has been in business for 46 years. WAWA has closed smaller stores in inner city locations, closed old stores, and replaced them with newer larger stores.
Lexington Park, MD has the distinction of being the only location in the WAWA chain of more than 500 full size stores with gas stations that has been forced to close because of a crime problem.

Rick Fritz-"Happens All The Time"

We need a State's Attorney who will make sure that repeat offenders are punished, and not pampered just to get them through the system.
Richard Fritz puts drug dealers back on our streets and they're killing our children[/QUOTE]

John Mattingly for States Attorney St. Mary's County Maryland (http://johnmattingly.com/about.php)

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i like this game!

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States Attorney Richard Fritz
Has received Election Endorsements
and support from

St Mary's Co. Sheriff Tim Cameron

The ENTERPRISE newspaper

the Fraternal Order of Police


AMERICAN LEGION POST 238

The COUNTY TIMES

Past St Marys County Sheriffs
Endorsing Richard Fritz for States Attorney

Ben Burroughs

Wayne Pettit

Richard Voorhar

Candidate John Mattingly has received endorsements from only
Ken Rossignol, former owner/editor of the St Marys Today Tabloid
And maybe that backhanded endorsement he got from Judge Wallace
"The two of you together (Mattingly & Brown) did operate your business corruptly,"
Judge Wallace said, "in an effort to cheat other people."

Thank me later but for now just try to focus you attention
on this timeless and spellbounding treat (no tricks here)

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Vote Fritz out today!

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