No, we’re not making this up. That’s just part of a late-night email message from Mayor James D. Kalb of Portsmouth, Ohio to blogger Robert Forrey, a retired English professor whose site, RiverVices seems to have gotten under Kalb’s skin. In response to a public records request from Forrey for information about a controversial local park project, Kalb wrote:
If there is anything else that I can do for you, which is required by law, don’t hesitate to call my office. If it isn’t required by law then don’t bother asking, because I think that you’re a worthless piece of s**t and I wouldn’t p**s on you if you were on fire (my opinion). You’re a poor, lonely, jealous, old man with aspirations of being a writer. You write your lies and uneducated opinions on people and issues from behind the safety of your slobber stained keyboard with the hope that somebody will read them that doesn’t know you and believe that you’re more than the pitiful, broke-down, lizard-looking thing that you are, in my opinion. Get a life old man. On second thought, don’t bother…………..
I do have a question for you. Do you have family and if so do they even like you?
Looking forward to your next Internet issue of “FORREY’S FOLLIES”…..NOOOTTTTTT
With little respect for you,
Mayor James D. Kalb
This isn’t a hoax; the Columbus Dispatch had the story earlier this week.
The blog Open Records calls this the “best response to an open records request so far in 2009.” Ha!
October 02, 2009