At a Beachwood event Monday Sen. Sherrod Brown joked about the popularity of his wife, former Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz.
On the East Side of Cleveland, he said, people don't greet him. They say, "Where's Connie?"
But at least one conservative blogger did not know about their marriage.
Yesterday, Schultz posted an email exchange with a blogger — whom she did not name — who said that they were working on "an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover."
The blogger had spotted a photo of Schultz hugging Brown and asked her to comment.
She responded:
I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He's really cute.
He's also my husband.
See the full exchange on Schultz's Facebook page.
The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and other national news outlets reported on the exchange this morning.
Schultz, who now lives in Avon with Brown, resigned from the newspaper in 2011, citing Brown's reelection campaign, and has written books about her husband's campaign.
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white and old.
Mary Lou Brunstetter-Reynolds 7:46 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 I find the photo the most interesting. What would you say the average age and ethnicity of the group is? Anyone? Paxton Crenshaw 9:40 am on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 i thought the same thing when i looked at that photo... white and old whats wrong paxton your silly comment on the mandel page are OK but not on the sherrod page .....
The PD is hardly "liberal." Perhaps a more appropriate name is "A Village Idiot" since you're about as big of a moron as this blogger who couldn't spend 15 seconds more doing an internet search. Oh oh -- I'm going to guess the not-ready-for-primetime hacks at Patch are going to find this "against TOS."
Because that appears to be the perfect example of a good chunk of blogs that Patch allows people to write: too lazy and/or stupid to do basic research. In this case, about 15 additional seconds researching on the internet, and this conservative blogging nitwit would've found out that she's been married to him for years.
"No, YOU'RE stupid!" -----yawn
and if you do read it, it generally takes all of 20 minutes to get through it - not much substance here for what was once one of the grand ole ladies of american journalism. sad, but the quality of this paper has declined lock step with the decline of cleveland.