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Retired Post-Dispatch investigative reporter Carolyn Tuft remains bitter over the attempted refusal by the Newspaper Guild to allow her to attend the recent vote on the new contract offered by Lee Enterprises. She explained, “I wanted to support my brothers and sisters.  The guild also turned away retirees.  Finally, there was a vote to allow me to remain, since I had an 8-day window until retirement. Even the attendance by the international president of the guild, was discouraged.”  Tuft said that she remains ill as a result of a mugging and beating she endured in 2007 by three men on a P-D parking lot.  “One of them drew a gun and pointed it at my face,” she recalled. “I chased one of them down the street.  No one from the paper came to help me.  The company told the cops that there was no gunman. As a result, I have since suffered from stomach and brain problems. I later testified against one of the guys and he has since been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The getaway car was similar to those used in the Joyce Meyers Ministries’ fleet. “  Tuft, as most remember, was the author of a revealing series of searing articles about the ministries.