A letter to the editor A letter to the editor of the state capital's alt-weekly outed the Green Party candidate for governor of Illinois as a one-time prominent leader of the Socialist Party. Rich Whitney, 51, later fessed up, telling the Daily Herald that he was serving as editor of the party's national newspaper when he resigned in 1993 due to ideological infighting. "I was a Socialist because in my political evolution, I've always cared about working people," Whitney says.
A local attorney is seeking a restraining order to halt unwanted delivery of the free-commuter daily to his home, the Baltimore Sun reports. While Joel L. Levin is the first to take legal action, the woes of residents attempting to stanch the flow of Examiners were recounted in an earlier Baltimore City Paper article. Examiner Publisher Michael Phelps responded to the suit this weekend with an open letter that acknowledged the complaints and conceded that "for Mr. Levin and a small handful of residents, our service has not been perfect."
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