Rep. LaTourette pressured paper to fire blogger

thinkprogress.org — The Cleveland Plain Dealer yesterday fired blogger YellowDogSammy, who contributed to the paper’s group politics blog Wide Open. The measure came after Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-OH) complained to the paper’s editorial page editor that Sammy had contributed $100 to his opponent’s campaign. The paper let Sammy go after he refused to never again write Oct 31, 2007 View in Crawl 4