SocraticGadfly: THIS is what Armando is so bent out of shape about? Anonymity or greed?

June 09, 2006

THIS is what Armando is so bent out of shape about? Anonymity or greed?

Here’s the link to the May 23 comment on The Washington Note that “outed” Armando. As I said, before Armando got his Wiki bio deleted, all of his major corporate clients were listed there. AS the discussion at Wiki about whether to allow that deletion to become permanant indcates, by appearing on National Public Radio and Majority Report, and at legal conferences where he has both been identified by full name and his association with Daily Kos more than puts him in the public record. To claim he was “outed” is baloney.

Anyway, here's the quote:
Hi -- off topic, but I blog here often and just wanted to let everyone know that I was just banned from dkos... for having the nerve to point that Armando (full name Armando Llorens-Sar) is a PARTNER in a anti-evironmental, anti-labor law firm (McConnell Valdes) that represents Walmart and many other perennials on the "worst corporations list." During the day Armando's law firm fights AGAINST the same progressive causes he promotes on dKos. The firm even has a lobbying department to promote corporate special interests! This is all public knowledge that he himself has presented publically, but apparently mentioning it on dkos is an offense worthy of banning. Also, this all came about in RESPONSE to a diary that he wrote attacking ME!
Posted by: jiggyflunknut at May 23, 2006 08:59 PM


Given that this and his law firm were all public info, I suspect Armando's capitalist pursuit of the legal billing dollar perhaps has trumped, or at least somewhat folded, spindled or mutilated, his conscience.

I prefer to stay working for a small suburban weekly newspaper rather than a major seven-day daily in part precisely so that I can march in protests, such as the antiwar, anti-Bush, or anti-ExxonMobil ones I've done, without violating company policies.

Armando, stop being a crybaby; stop being so greedy; stop being a martyr.

Update, June 15, after first two comments posted:
As for the NRO story, and its documentation of the changes in Armando's Wiki bio? SOMEBODY scrubbed it. Armando or one of his friends would be the only ones with reason to do so.

As for the NRO story, the pre-scrubbed version of the Wiki bio shows that it was ALL not just public but PUBLICLY DISSEMINATED info.

According to Diane Ensley, Armando wrote HIS OWN Wiki bio and now boo-hoos about getting “outed”?

If Armando really didn't like this being known, he could have had whoever scrubbed his Wiki bio do so long before the NRO posting.

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