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Petitioning the United States Congress and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey, Congressional Representatives and Attorney General Maura Healey"
FYI I will be on travel in Europe and Asia for 3 weeks in a few days to quite a few places with extremely limited internet so I will be missing most of the time. Very impressive so far. On Monday assuming no crazy sports stories or world events, I recommend a full blown twitter offensive from every Patsfan you can get on it.
I have been dealing with the press for decades and what you basically have to do with 95% is hand them the story on the silver platter, do as much of the thinking and research for them as is practical. I am impressed with Florio as he seems to have seen the light based on looking at things himself.
Look what the NFL did with the Wells report. Most of the press never read past the summary. Keep the focus on tampering with the Patriots SB prep, perhaps someone bet big at the beginning of the year on Seattle repeating. It could explain what happened until the NFL gives a compelling alternate explanation. How can anyone allow false information like that to be provided when any reasonable person would see it would interfere with Patriots SB prep. Hit them with the petition and follow up with the Florio interview which was brilliant. On any facebook page I would have the Florio interview front and center.
At this point I think I am comfortable sharing the thing I heard before the Brady hearing but held back. A list was compiled from Wells' law firm public web site of every email address for every lawyer at the firm, not by me but by the firm itself,
http://www.paulweiss.com/professionalsearchresult.aspx?all=all and there are almost 800 of them. It is rumored that a reporter contacted them all or some significant portion the night before the Brady appeal and asked them questions having to do with the Wells report and if anyone or firm was consulted prior to and besides Exponent for the science and if their analysis, opinion or review was not put in the Wells report. I would imagine that it is just a matter of time until more info on what went on inside the creation of the Wells Report comes out slowly. With a staff that large it is inevitable that someone will have an axe to grind etc.. One can only imagine how Mr Wells would have reacted to this inquiry on the eve of the Brady appeal though I am certain he is fully capable of dealing with press and was not the least flustered by it.
It would certainly be interesting if it came to pass that sources other than Exponent were consulted and/or utilized but their data and findings were not used in the final Wells report for some reason. I for one could not help but note that Appendix 1, the Exponent report starting on page 146 of the Wells report, was dated on May 6, the same date as the Wells report itself. If I were writing a final report based on reports submitted to me, I would expect them to have different dates. I guess these folks are just so good they could digest the Exponent report and write the 145 page Wells report on the same day. I would have needed far more time to put this together.
Are we to believe that the Wells report was written the same day they received the Exponent report? I am sure it is nothing and they are just that good and there were no other scientific sources consulted prior to Exponent and that no contradictory scientific findings were withheld from the Wells report which could have come in in the MONTHS before May 6th. I am certain that these folks would never have discarded information contradicting their theory and then gone and hired a scientific hired gun to deliver what they wanted but failed to obtain from previous sources. That would be as unethical as giving the accused false information and in court, you can be sure that the question on who else they used would be asked
Oh just ignore this story
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/s...st-over-patriots-deflated-footballs.html?_r=0
"A law firm hired by the
N.F.L. to
investigate footballs used by the New England Patriots has formally asked the
Columbia University physics department for help in understanding how weather and temperature could affect the pressure in footballs, according to a summary of the communication obtained by The New York Times." The NFL never received info from any other source than Exponent I am sure.
