He also retweeted Richie's Daily Mail "interview".
Richie does seem to have quite a few connections to TMZ. He's been on that show a few times. I guess he has friends there.

That latest Tweet from Richie frustrates me even more. The obvious question is: If the fashion line doesn't take Richie away from the band, and he's an 'artist first, and always will be' --well, why isn't he on tour??

He claims Jon is making it difficult for him to return.

Yet, in previous interviews, Jon has said Richie can return when he is ready to "die onstage like I do".

Maybe Richie doesn't like Jon's terms for his return.

As for the statement that Richie is not doing interviews, I took that to mean that he isn't doing them following the Daily Mail article, following the fallout from that and/or that he's already 'said his piece.'

I was just trying to find out if these two guys (the second being the one who wrote the MailOnline article, George Stark) are related somehow. They probably are or at least know each other. I'm sure in that kind of business, you've gotta be "in the know" and stuff.

And, sadly, that goes again into the direction I was talking about before. I mean, it looks like he's hanging around this kind of people whose job you can't really quite give a name to and that ain't good in the least. I had this same thought crossing my mind:

http://discodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?id_news=48511

Portuguese news also picks up the Daily Mail article.

Without any real knowledge of what is going on, Jon and Richie and both likely to blame. I thought TMZ had the story right from the start (maybe Richie was the source!). How Richie is acting with his non statements and Twitter is ridiculous but maybe he did get sick of Jon's CEO attitude and called his bluff. If we all think he comes across as an arrogant jerk in interviews imagine what everyone else gets in real life. All we know for sure is this is a public relations nightmare and the band is getting a bad reputation for its treatment of the fans. I only hope that when these two kiss and makeup, and they will because they know that without each other their success is minimal, we can get a great album and tour.

Check out Richie's "favorite" tweets: https://twitter.com/TheRealSambora/favorites

Hahaha and it was asked Nov 1, long before the bullshit. Either he doesn't know how to use twitter or he's a sneaky bastard. I'm going for somewhere in between.

Says you have to login...sorry I don't have a twitter account could you post it?

Yes, here's a screenshot: http://d.pr/i/ZmT1

Thanks for that:D