Bad Form

Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher's administration has enough problems. Fletcher and members of his staff have been indicted for conspiracy and other charges. So it's not like Fletcher needed to do anything else that would further embarrass his administration or the Kentucky Republican Party.
So this happened:

Political bloggers have joined pornographers, casinos and hate groups on the Fletcher administration's list of Web sites that state employees are blocked from visiting....

...Political blogs were among the categories added to the list Wednesday.

One political blogger in Kentucky said the timing is suspicious and charged the Fletcher administration has targeted his site because he is critical of the governor. On Tuesday, he ran excerpts of a New York Times story Tuesday about the state hiring investigation, which included quotes from him criticizing Fletcher.

Now I understand the need to protect taxpayer dollars and ensure that government workers are doing the people's business. But it is just bad form to do things in this manner in this way, particulary with all of the other problems the Fletcher administration has.

The one way to make sure that your opponents have their voice heard, is to in any way try to silence that voice...