Now for the latest update on the continuing saga of The Ruestman Report, State Representative Marilyn Ruestman's regular column, allegedly written by Ms. Ruestman herself, in which she tells her readers what is going on in the legislature.
In our last episode, JoplinDaily.com had issued an apology for running the latest Ruestman Report, since the Daily was told that the report should have been credited to four state representatives, Steve Hunter, R-Joplin, Ron Richard, R-Joplin, Bryan Stevenson, R-Webb City, and Ms. Ruestman.
The column, as credited to the multi-headed writing team does not appear to be on the Daily website any more, even though the earlier version credited to just Ms. Ruestman is still there.
As noted earlier in The Turner Report, Ms. Ruestman was still carrying the column, allegedly written with three colleagues, on her own website. In addition, the same column also ran this week in the Neosho Daily News and the Newton County News.
I am curious as to the answers to the following questions:
-Did Ms. Ruestman write the column?
-Did Ms. Ruestman, Hunter, Richard and Stevenson write the column?
-Or more likely, did someone besides the four area representatives write the column?
Considering that Ms. Ruestman already has an advantage over her Democratic opposition and a head start in the fundraising race, it is clearly wrong for these area publications to afford her free advertising, especially with columns for which she takes credit, but does not appear to do any of the writing.
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