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More bleak news for the European economy: Reporter Paul Meincke of WLS-TV will no longer be hauling to federal court vast quantities of Werther’s Originals, the “Official Press Corps Candy of the Rod Blagojevich Proceedings.”
From the ex-governor’s earliest court dates through two long trials and Wednesday’s sentencing, Meincke’s candy dispensing was as reliable as a brandy-toting Saint Bernard, to the immense gratitude of the many journalists whose throats he kept lubricated.
Perhaps desperate Werther’s, owned by a Berlin company, can rush production of a new line, Appellate Pellets.
