Discusting accusation and comparison. Are you a PR professional? Seems you have forgotten your professional ethics.

Posted by Linda Griffith | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 11:56 am

I think Mr. Roth's comments are spot on. The Republican party is in the process of being taken over by the lunatic fringe. Witness the 30 (all male) Republican Senators who voted against the Frankin anti-rape amendment.

Posted by John Logan | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 12:57 pm

Wow, this guy (Roth) is honest !! Three cheers for Sanders for hiring an honest guy !!

Posted by systemBuilder | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 2:15 pm

So the mayor has yet another new "spokesperson". How many is that now, 6, 7, 8? And this new guy has time to comment on New York politics? Too bad Sanders doesn't hire someone to contact property owners whose land he suddenly thinks might make a a good spot to put the Chargers. Does anyone else get the sinking feeling that city government is a shambles? Here we are with a projected deficit not that far from 200 mil, and all we hear is talk about a new city hall, moving ahead with a central library with financing that's a joke, expanding a convention center that already has an operating subsidy of 4 mil per year, an improved cruise ship terminal and............give me a break!

Posted by Bill Bradshaw | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 2:45 pm

Shambles is just the right word, Bill. You've summed it up nicely.

Posted by Fred Williams | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 8:02 pm

What's a twitter comment made by some guy on his own time have to do with finding a home for the Chargers or new city facilities? Oh that's right, nothing. You're a guy who just likes to gripe and see it on web sites.

Posted by ScottRich | reply to this comment
November 6, 2009 9:54 am

Roth has now deleted both his insult and unconvincing apology from Twitter. A truly brilliant move to make us all forget.

Posted by Bradley J. Fikes | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 4:00 pm

I can't believe Sanders is going to let him get away with insulting Heaven's Gate like that.

Posted by Jefferson | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 4:17 pm

The comparison is obviously a fallacy. The Heaven’s Gate folks rented a home in Rancho Santa Fe. Republicans living in the Ranch clearly don’t rent.

Posted by Barry Jantz | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 5:00 pm

This Tweet and reader commentary are hysterically funny! This guy Alex is so screwed at work now. Perhaps the Mayor will be getting another "new" spokesman soon. He'll probably be careful to hire someone from his own party next time.

Posted by Dylan Mann | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 7:04 pm

From a spokesman to a eunuch in one Twitter. Perhaps the Mayor should outsource his spokesperson army.

Posted by FedUp | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 9:35 pm

Being honest... that is something you do not truely see from the Republican Party! He should be patted on the back versus having to defend his party.

Posted by Brandon Farley | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 10:19 pm

Sanders needs to fire this buffoon post haste. He needs to go as quickly as he came. Republicans elected Sanders and returned him to office. Get real, Mayor. Oh, but I forget to whom I am speaking: the Central Library, the Convention Center expansion, the City Hall fiasco and now playing footsies with the Chargers -- again. Sanders has really let this Prop 8 thing go to his head, as he runs headlong into an embrace with all his new liberal fans. I guess this was only to be expected. See if you get my vote again, Jerry. Oh, and Barry Jantz, since when is it a crime or moral failing to be successful?

Posted by Edgar | reply to this comment
November 3, 2009 10:51 pm

So the guy Twittered an impulsive, but profound thought. Too bad thatis not part of the national Republican leadership these days, profound thoughts I mean. If the nat'l Republican leadership wasn't so reactionary and perhaps led by idiots like Hannity and Limbaugh, they might not inspire Twitters like that.

Posted by politicky | reply to this comment
November 4, 2009 7:37 am

Find Bill Maher's hilarious take on Democrats and Republicans ( one is center right and the other is right out of their minds) on YouTube. I miss liberals. I haven't seen any in years.

Posted by ruffruff | reply to this comment
November 4, 2009 9:43 am

Edgar, you obviously don't know that I am a GOPer. There is no crime in being successful. But, I do have the ability to laugh at a situation and this was one!

Posted by Barry Jantz | reply to this comment
November 4, 2009 10:06 am

My sympathies to Alex Roth, a very gifted writer with a penchant for telling the truth. It just proves what a sinkhole personal media has become. How ironic that it's better not to have an opinion anymore to avoid retribution from those with long knives. Kind of the opposite of free speech, eh? By the way, great scoop here by the watchdog media. Glad we nipped this one in the bud.

Posted by Terry Rodgers | reply to this comment
November 4, 2009 10:48 am

OK how do we tell when he is speaking for the mayor because we know Sanders will not speak for himself and apparently has trouble getting others to speak his thoughts and they are usually so small you would think it would be an easy job. Maybe Roth should only twitter after work hours and start this is"my thought and not Sanders"

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November 4, 2009 11:34 am

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