Now I Know Why I Didn’t Get a “Thank You” Card
I found out recently that Marion County Clerk Beth While sent “thank you” cards to some members of the media for their fair and balanced coverage of the last election. I didn’t get one. And I thought we provided very fair and balanced coverage of the more than 3000 disenfranchised voters whose polling places never opened and no one cared.
I was about to take this personally until I realized there was a logical explanation, she made a mistake and forgot. How did I figure this out? No, I didn’t look at the last election, I went to her website which had a listing of state and local elected officials and realized it was also full of mistakes. Granted it was a website called Polis Politics that drew my attention to it.
For example, she has Connie Nass listed as State Auditor. Nass left that post in January and was replaced by Tim Berry, who is also listed in that position as well. She lists Billie Breaux as State Senator, even though her daughter Jean has that job now. Two former City-County Council Members still have their jobs, Jim Braford and Earl Salisbury, despite the fact they have both given up their positions. There also numerous mistakes involving township officials and school board members.
I figured Beth would not have purposely made these mistakes because she spent all her energy turning the primary into a disaster, so I she figured she just forgot to send me my card.
Don’t worry Beth, I can wait. And just so you know, it’s spelled Abdul Hakim Shabazz. And it would be nice to have it before the next election or the next polling place doesn’t open, whichever comes second.
June 11th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
It looks like Beth White was more involved in other areas of the Clerk’s Office than updating an old webpage (with errors) leftover from her unlamented predecessor…
June 11th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
You go Abdul!
that article about beth white is wonderful. keep up the good work and lets toast some democrats this fall. mybe the fools will self destruct and we can get this screwed up city back where it should be.
GO Abdul!
June 11th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Abdul!
here is an idea im going to try. i will e-mail all CCC members with a few simple questions, hopefully some may be capable of answering them and i will wait a period of time and see how many members reply. a simple question might be ( example, if you pass a pit bull ordinance and the dog in question is a mixed pit bull breed. who gets the front end and who gets the tail end? )
June 11th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
By the way, based on previous voting patterns from those 5 never-opened precincts, less than 230 voters missed out this primary in those precincts. Not good but hardly the scaremongering “3000 disenfranchised” so blithely and inaccurately thrown around…
June 11th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Sorry Wilson,
My great, great grandmother could not vote for most of her life and she died two years before the voting rights act. One person disenfranchised is one person too many.
June 11th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Wilson, the mere fact that you can even look at yourself in the mirror is proof of the existance of GOD because only a supernatural force could keep your reflection from calling you out on your blatant hypocrisy. I was once amazed, now I’m simply amused…
June 11th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
For someone who decried voter ID as a mass disenfranchisement, it seems his talking points received from the Democraps has changed to brush Beth’s foul ups under the rug.
So what do your masters say about THAT, Wilson?
June 11th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Wilson, I thought you were the guy over on Ruth’s blog that was complaining that people might not get to vote because of the Voter ID law? Nevermind the fact that they couldn’t find a single person who wouldn’t have been able to vote. So now you’re going from the argument of defending the ‘one hypothetical person who won’t get to vote but we’re not sure if they even exist, which they probably don’t,’ to ‘it’s only 230 votes in a primary that’s not a big deal.’ You can pick either side, you just can’t pick both dude.
Abdul, I just wanted to say I think it’s great you run a blog. I work nights so I always miss a lot of local covereage on your show in the mornings. I wish they’d give you 2 hours a night!
June 12th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Abdul, I LMAO reading this post this morning. What a great way to start the day, laughing!!! I’ll say ‘thank you’ Adbul for your fair and balanced coverage because I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting on Beth “incompetent” White to send you one.