Sunday, July 17, 2005

The Bee: Fire Edelman

The Sacramento Bee weighed in Sunday morning with more on the flap about the California stem cell agency and its public relations contract.

It said in an editorial that the agency should fire the Edelman firm and "deal with the issues that are causing (it) the most grief. Chief among these is (Robert) Klein himself, who continues to act like a micromanaging political campaigner instead of the chairman of a prestigious research institute."

Edelman could be replaced by two state government flacks, The Bee wrote.

The editorial also had this snippet, unreported elsewhere, from last week's meeting:

"Jeff Sheehy, a communications specialist at UC San Francisco who serves on the oversight board, said spending $27,550 a month on public relations was 'appalling,' and questioned if the institute was getting anything for its money.

'Klein replied that without Edelman, the institute wouldn't be able to respond to major news events.

"'The public did not give us bonds to respond to major news events,' Sheehy shot back. 'It gave (them) to us to do research.'"

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