Judy Miner is accidentally in the news

WNPJ Executive Director Judy Miner says she wasn't actually writing a letter to the editor for publlication, but it ended up -- after being "cleaned up" by editing -- as a letter in the Capital Times:

What she actually did was write to the newspaper, to the editor of the 77 Square section, to complain about the ad. Without knowing what she was complaining about, which was edited from the published version, it was hard to know what she was so steamed up about. Her actual letter said:

 I found an ad for Bennett’s Meadowood Country Club that you carried last Thursday in 77 Square to be extremely offensive. I believe in freedom of speech, but this “ad” is not an ad at all – but a mean-spirited, racist-sexist statement. Your support of this type of ad makes me wonder about your good sense.

 Bennett’s Meadowwood Country Club isn’t advertising food or service…but using their ad space to write the following bigoted remarks:

I went down to sign up my Dog for welfare today. At first the lady said, “Dogs aren’t eligible to draw welfare.” So I explained to her that my Dog is unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and has no clue who his daddy is. So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify. My Dog gets his first check Friday. Damn this is a great country.

"The editor wrote me back that he would take this question to the advertising division, to check it out and get back to me," Miner said. "The next thing I knew, my question to him was in the Cap Times as a “letter to the Editor."

I called the editor and talked with him today. He said that ad was a “mistake, that slipped through the cracks. It will not be in their papers again.” He also apologized that he had not gotten back to me before running this “letter to the editor”.