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Rep. John Blust, a Greensboro Republican, sent along an e-mail yesterday wondering who had started a blog in his name.

In Blust's own words, it seems innocuous so far, linking to fairly positive coverage of Blust such as editorial writer Doug Clark's recent video interview with the lawmaker.

Still, Blust said, it seemed odd that someone had started an homage to him without letting him know.

(As an added bonus for the Greensboro blogsphere, another link on the page is to Marcus Kindley's new blog. Kindley, who authored the colorful but now-defunct "Chairman's Corner" when he was head of the Guilford County GOP is now running something called North Carolinian's for Legal Immigration.)

I was off yesterday (lured to the state fair by the siren's song of a giant turkey leg and my four-year-old's passion for things that spin around really fast) so Doug took the lead on ferreting out from whence the new blog came.

The creator outed herself in the comments on Doug's post,

Hi, this is Ms. Franky S. Lee, speaking, creator of the www.representativejohnmblust.blogspot.com . I had not had a chance to announce to Rep. Blust or to Marcus Kindley, yet. Marcus has been on business in Arizona about a week and just returned. Both Rep. Blust and Kindley are aware now, and both had a positive reaction.

Ms. Lee says she is from Martin County.

Update: Blust e-mailed back this morning to confirm that he though the intent of the new blog was friendly but said he still thought the name should be changed so it wouldn't look like he was the proprietor.