I was invited by ABC 15 WPDE reporter Emma Engel a few days before election day to come to the studio to explain my opposition to RIDE 4. The interview took place on October 28, 2024 (AM) and was supposed to have aired that evening on the TV news.It never did air.
What follows is a series of emails between Emma Engel and me re why it did not air and how “policy” prevents them from sending me a copy of an unaired interview.
No offense to Helen Keller but even she could see that the story was deliberately spiked. They did not have to “get” tax reports. They were online and free. Besides, Emma Engle told me that she had already seen them. The reason the story was spiked was because I had the evidence that the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce funded the pro RIDE 4 campaign, very likely with tax dollars, and WPDE, for reasons of its own which I am sure you can guess at, did not want its viewers to know about that before election day.