RIDE-CT – Classic Cars Celebrating Classic Cars in Connecticut
MERIDEN, CT – In response to an opinion column posted Saturday night griping about the fact RIDE-CT was denied the normal courtesy of gratis entrance to an event to take photographs and write a story or do a video, one of the “hosts” of the Silver City Showdown, Derrick Pesko, responded to a Facebook tease for the column by calling the 71-year-old columnist an “adult baby.”
Pesko also charged that RIDE-CT “had the audacity to try and strong arm us into letting you in for
free or we’ll get negative press from you and whatever outdated news media you
work for is completely unacceptable.”
In the spirit of transparency, wanting to more fully provide two sides of the story, and a desire to close the book on this incident, RIDE-CT is posting Pesko’s full response to the column as well as my reply to his comments:
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Another member of the team running the show also commented to the Facebook tease. Paul Tomassetti’s comments and my reply follow:
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In a subsequent comment, Tomassetti wrote that he’s now laughing about what happened and I responded that I am as well.
I’m also chuckling over the fact so much of what I do celebrates and promotes the classic car culture. To have effort stymied out of the blue blindsided and stunned me.
Ironically, the same day the Silver City Showdown hots rods and customs show essentially barred routine news coverage, the newspaper in the same town featured a “My Ride” column of mine on a nearby couple who own hot rods.
The Meriden “Record-Journal” gave it full-page treatment with a jump to another page. The column also in other Hearst newspapers across the state having run a week earlier in the “Republican-American” in Waterbury:
Here’s a link to the YouTube story on the couple’s hot rods.
