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.

Posted: 06|11|07 at 4:15 pm by Abdul Hakim-Shabazz
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