Attorneys for former Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair have sent a letter to St. Petersburg based political blogger Peter Schorsch, threatening to sue him after the blogger wrote recently about Blair's arrest last summer on child abuse charges on his blog, St. Petersburg 2.0,.
Blair was arrested on Father's Day last year, and held overnight in a Hillsborough County jail, accused of engaging in a fight with his two sons. But days later, the Hillsborough County State Attorney's office said they were dropping the charges.
This article appears in Mar 3-9, 2010.