The Globe came up with the information through a Sunshine Law request.
I received a call moments ago from someone close to the situation. At first, there was something of a language barrier.
"Woof."
That was me. I was surprised when the caller answered in kind. "Woof."
"Whoa! I need a translator," I said, since I only know one word in that language.
"It's all right. I speak English," the caller said, then identified himself as someone who knows Councilman Ben Rosenberg.
My interest was growing. "How do you know him?
"Let's just they say, I have sat on his lap a time or two."
I couldn't believe my luck. An interview with a key participant in the September citation that has become page one news in the Joplin Globe.
"How do I know it's you?" I asked.
"Who else do you know who goes around talking about sitting in Ben Rosenberg's lap?"
The dog had me there.
"Woof."
"Beg pardon?"
"Sorry, I slip into the old language sometimes," the dog said.
After that, my caller shocked me with a sordid story about what had happened after the first time the police had stopped Councilman Rosenberg with him on the councilman's lap.
"They let him off with a warning," the dog said. "He called me "Good Dog," so I knew he had already been checking up on me." The dog continued, "After that, it was only a few days before I received a call from a Joplin Globe editor."
"A Joplin Globe editor?"
"She wanted me to wear a wire. I told her no way. I'm nobody's lapdog...well I am Councilman Rosenberg's lapdog, but that's different."
"So you turned them down flat?"
There was a hesitation.
"You did turn them down, didn't you?" I asked.
"I hate to admit this, but I almost did it."
"What made you change your mind?"
"She offered me a free subscription. I may go on it, but you will never catch me reading it."
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4 comments:
Hi Randy, Thanks for the story and your apology. By the way everyone can be assured my owners put flea medicine on me. Wooof!
Say, would you like a picture of me???
LOVE YOUR TAKE ON THIS!!!!!!
The globe editor should be an expert on lap dogs- she was rohrs lapdog for 9 years.
This Rosenberg stuff indicates Stark's still giving Rohr a lap dance even after he's long gone.
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