Saturday, November 04, 2006
Posted by The Dean of Cincinnati
 Is Joe Wessels up to something? In today’s Post, he has an article the editors entitled “Different styles, both successful: Heimlich suited to life in politics.” However, the piece reads like thinly veiled analysis of sexual innuendo.
Why, for example, did Wessels interview John Morelock for this piece? We first wrote about Morelock on October 18th—and to the best of our knowledge we were the first people to report on the Morelock-Heimlich connection. Why is Wessels following up with this guy? Is there something to the relationship between him and Heimlich? And why does Wessels want us to know that Morelock produces lubricants?
Heimlich is no stranger to being an outsider. At The Choate School, an elite private boarding school in Connecticut where his parents sent him for high school, he had few friends and concentrated on his studies and his tennis game.
“I don’t think he wanted to be there,” said his close friend John Morelock, the owner and chief executive officer of Calgary Industries, a Fairfield-based cleaner and lubricant manufacturer. The two met 20 years ago at church. Then check this out, about Phil’s first date with his wife Rebecca:
Their first date was to a Rosemary Clooney concert at Riverbend. They were supposed to go with another couple, who backed out at the last minute. When Heimlich arrived to pick her up, he announced that his parents were out in the car waiting for them.
“I thought that was really funny given that I heard he was a mama’s boy,” she said. “I just thought it was hilarious.”
Jane Heimlich, Phil’s mother, said she and her husband laugh about it now.
“I can imagine how Rebecca felt,” she said.
She said she had nearly given up hope that her son, then in his early 40s, would ever get married. So Heimich is 40 years old, and going out on first dates while bringing his parents along. His wife calls him a mama’s boy, his mama never thought he’d get married, and his best friend has a job manufacturing lubrication.
Then, Wessels ends the article with another quote from lubricant-manufacturing Morelock:
He got home around midnight and was up and out the next morning for a 6:30 a.m. Bible study in Hyde Park.
Heimlich is more than up to the grind, said Morelock.
“The guy goes like, he gets by on 4 or 5 hours of sleep. He’s got so much energy.” Lubricant-manufacturing Morelock, for whatever reason, knows Phil Heimlich’s sleeping habits, and his late-night energy levels.
I’m just saying… Is Joe Wessels trying to tell us something?
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