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Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz resigned from the Plain Dealer today, citing continued issues with potential conflicts of interest regarding her journalistic duties as her husband, Senator Sherrod Brown, runs for re-election.

Schultz, a Pulitzer prize winning scribe who had been with the paper for 18 years, was recently under fire for covering a Tea Party event and a) Not mentioning that Josh Mandel, the prohibitive Republican candidate squaring off against her husband in the next election, was there, and b) Videotaping Mandel’s speech.

She used her first column since moving back to the Metro pages to apologize.

After the jump, a portion of her note to colleagues and her readers. Click over to Cleveland.com for the rest.

This article appears in Sep 14-20, 2011.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

7 replies on “Connie Schultz Resigns From the Plain Dealer”

  1. I’ve always wondered. Maybe Ms Schultz or one the other shallow minded liberals in this audience can inform me. How does justice, differ from social or economic justice? It seems to me that there is either justice or injustice. Anything else is a political statement rather than a point of reality. Therefore, it is an erroneous conclusion that designating different types of justice makes you a more caring and aware person. It actually makes one sound, foolish.

  2. I did not always agree with her, but I appreciated her insight and ability to make me think. She is very talented and can make a great contribution with her continued writing. I wish her well in her other ventures. I am sure she has inspired many young and upcoming writers who will be forever grateful to her.

  4. In the beginning I enjoyed Ms. Schultz’s articles but I’ve seen a drastic change in her articles after she became Mr. Senator’s wife. As I told her in a recently sent e-mail, my uncle, a long time journalist for the defunct Cleveland Press was a die-hard Democrat but no one ever knew from his articles. She is a good writer but she’ll have to chose between writing or being a political wife. I’m sure that Washington DC has a good place for someone like her. I wish her the best of luck but would like to remind her that the life of a good writer lasts longer than that of a politician, no matter how honest he/she claims to be.

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