Comments on: The guv and the murderer – UPDATED http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/ Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/#comment-34322 lotus Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:27:57 +0000 http://www.folo.us/?p=2614#comment-34322 Thanks again, Habeas p. (I shortened that link to keep it out of the sidebar, instrux for which HTML trick you can find under Pages, at left -- by no means a required protocol here, just kinda nifty if you want to try it.) Thanks again, Habeas p. (I shortened that link to keep it out of the sidebar, instrux for which HTML trick you can find under Pages, at left — by no means a required protocol here, just kinda nifty if you want to try it.)

]]> By: Habeas porpoise http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/#comment-34304 Habeas porpoise Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:00:33 +0000 http://www.folo.us/?p=2614#comment-34304 The Mississippi Press is the local paper serving Pascagoula, Moss Point, Ocean Springs, Gautier, and Lucedale. Gulflive.com is the web site for the Mississippi Press and the Mobile Register. The Mobile Register owns and publishes the Mississippi Press, I think, or they have a common owner/publisher--I'm not sure. The Sun Herald serves the entire Gulf Coast area but on some stories, especially those involving Jackson County, the Mississippi Press devotes more extensive coverage than the Sun Herald. For example, Natalie Chandler's stories on the homeowners' grant program after Katrina was more extensive and more probing than that of the Sun Herald, in my opinion. Chandler is now a reporter for the Clarion Ledger, I believe. The Mississippi Press today published an editorial on Gov. Barbour's commutation of Michael Graham's life sentence. <a href="http://www.gulflive.com/opinion/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/opinion/121654890835710.xml" rel="nofollow">link</a> The Sun Herald hasn't as yet published an editorial on the subject that I have seen, although political columnist Geoff Pender had a column in today's Sun Herald, attempting to wax humorous about the damage to Barbour's political future caused by the commutation of Graham's sentence. Sorry, I don't have the link at my fingertips. The Mississippi Press is the local paper serving Pascagoula, Moss Point, Ocean Springs, Gautier, and Lucedale. Gulflive.com is the web site for the Mississippi Press and the Mobile Register. The Mobile Register owns and publishes the Mississippi Press, I think, or they have a common owner/publisher–I’m not sure. The Sun Herald serves the entire Gulf Coast area but on some stories, especially those involving Jackson County, the Mississippi Press devotes more extensive coverage than the Sun Herald. For example, Natalie Chandler’s stories on the homeowners’ grant program after Katrina was more extensive and more probing than that of the Sun Herald, in my opinion. Chandler is now a reporter for the Clarion Ledger, I believe.
The Mississippi Press today published an editorial on Gov. Barbour’s commutation of Michael Graham’s life sentence.

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The Sun Herald hasn’t as yet published an editorial on the subject that I have seen, although political columnist Geoff Pender had a column in today’s Sun Herald, attempting to wax humorous about the damage to Barbour’s political future caused by the commutation of Graham’s sentence. Sorry, I don’t have the link at my fingertips.

]]> By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/#comment-34209 lotus Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:57:47 +0000 http://www.folo.us/?p=2614#comment-34209 Habeas p, I've updated the post, so thanks again. Habeas p, I’ve updated the post, so thanks again.

]]> By: lotus http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/#comment-34197 lotus Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:30:58 +0000 http://www.folo.us/?p=2614#comment-34197 Habeas p, thanks <em>very much</em> for all this info (which can't have been fun to write). I've been to gulflive.com several times lately, finding good stuff there but not really knowing what the site is. Clue us in more on Mississippi Press, please, if you have time. I'll go check there, hoping to find out more than Baker explained about Barbour's order <em>per se</em>. Her story didn't really make clear where the process sits now, or whether/what Biloxians can do effectively at this point to stop Graham's release. Habeas p, thanks very much for all this info (which can’t have been fun to write).

I’ve been to gulflive.com several times lately, finding good stuff there but not really knowing what the site is. Clue us in more on Mississippi Press, please, if you have time.

I’ll go check there, hoping to find out more than Baker explained about Barbour’s order per se. Her story didn’t really make clear where the process sits now, or whether/what Biloxians can do effectively at this point to stop Graham’s release.

]]> By: Habeas porpoise http://www.folo.us/2008/07/19/the-guv-and-the-murderer/#comment-34179 Habeas porpoise Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:24:26 +0000 http://www.folo.us/?p=2614#comment-34179 Margaret Baker's story is a good one, but the Sun Herald ran it on page two. The coverage of this story in the Mississippi Press, with a big front-page headline "OUTRAGE," is much more extensive than in the paper that some coastians have come to call the Daily Haley (i.e., the Sun Herald). Mississippi Press stories and "Soundoffs" can be found at gulflive.com, or one can just google "Michael David Graham" "Haley Barbour." This commutation is an unmitigated outrage. Adrienne Klasky's family, her best friends, her lawyer who filed restraining orders against Graham, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and witnesses in the case, and others will be sleeping less easy than they have for the past nineteen years thanks to the clemency granted this killer by the governor. By all accounts, the murder of Adrienne Klasky at one of Pascagoula's busiest downtown intersections one sunny Friday morning in April 1989, is one of the area's most heinous crimes ever. She was stopped at the intersection stop light when Graham, who had been following her, pulled up beside her car in the oncoming traffic lane, laid the barrel of his 12-gauge shotgun out the passenger-side window of his pickup and fired into her left temple at point blank range as she sat in her car, basically blowing her face away according to some eyewitnesses. Many downtown offices emptied into the streets. Klasky's own attorney, one of many to arrive at the scene shortly after the shooting, did not recognize her. Her father, Lyle Klasky, the manager of a downtown clothing store around the corner from the crime scene, soon arrived and recognized the victim as his daughter. Meanwhile, Graham had calmly driven away and ended up at the office of his lawyer who talked Graham into turning himself in. News accounts say that Graham and Klasky had been divorced for three years. Close friends say he harassed and stalked her for much of that time. One of the police investigators described the murder as a stalking followed by an execution. This crime has been a major topic of conversation for almost two decades. I have heard many say they believe Graham deserved the death penalty. I have never heard one person say he deserved anything less than life without parole. Now the governor has put this cold-blooded killer out on the streets. Margaret Baker’s story is a good one, but the Sun Herald ran it on page two. The coverage of this story in the Mississippi Press, with a big front-page headline “OUTRAGE,” is much more extensive than in the paper that some coastians have come to call the Daily Haley (i.e., the Sun Herald). Mississippi Press stories and “Soundoffs” can be found at gulflive.com, or one can just google “Michael David Graham” “Haley Barbour.” This commutation is an unmitigated outrage. Adrienne Klasky’s family, her best friends, her lawyer who filed restraining orders against Graham, prosecuting attorneys, jurors, and witnesses in the case, and others will be sleeping less easy than they have for the past nineteen years thanks to the clemency granted this killer by the governor. By all accounts, the murder of Adrienne Klasky at one of Pascagoula’s busiest downtown intersections one sunny Friday morning in April 1989, is one of the area’s most heinous crimes ever. She was stopped at the intersection stop light when Graham, who had been following her, pulled up beside her car in the oncoming traffic lane, laid the barrel of his 12-gauge shotgun out the passenger-side window of his pickup and fired into her left temple at point blank range as she sat in her car, basically blowing her face away according to some eyewitnesses. Many downtown offices emptied into the streets. Klasky’s own attorney, one of many to arrive at the scene shortly after the shooting, did not recognize her. Her father, Lyle Klasky, the manager of a downtown clothing store around the corner from the crime scene, soon arrived and recognized the victim as his daughter. Meanwhile, Graham had calmly driven away and ended up at the office of his lawyer who talked Graham into turning himself in. News accounts say that Graham and Klasky had been divorced for three years. Close friends say he harassed and stalked her for much of that time. One of the police investigators described the murder as a stalking followed by an execution. This crime has been a major topic of conversation for almost two decades. I have heard many say they believe Graham deserved the death penalty. I have never heard one person say he deserved anything less than life without parole. Now the governor has put this cold-blooded killer out on the streets.

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