I TOLD YOU SO!
Contrary to popular belief, I really do hate being right all the time because when I am it’s over things that are never good. And Marion County Clerk Beth White has proved my point. She admitted in today’s Indianapolis Star that she NEVER HAD A LIST OF INSPECTORS GOING INTO THE MAY 8 PRIMARY. Duh!
This is unexcusable, plain and simple. If White were having problems getting inspectors she should have been on the media everyday making the calls for people to help out. My sources tell me they knew a least a week out they were having problems getting inspectors. Also, Democrats are the majority party in Marion County, as Mayor Bart Peterson gleefully pointed out at last week’s Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Indianapolis. And these people can’t find 200 people to work the polls?
What’s even more pathetic about this is it took White an entire week to make the confession they neve had the inspectors. And she did it on a Friday so it could appear in Saturday’s paper, a day of very light readership. Sorry guys, you don’t get off the hook that easy.
City-County Council President Monroe Gray is asking the public to forgive White, saying she’s inexperienced. You could have fooled me from last year’s campaign rhetoric. In addition, White says on her website that she served as chair of the Marion County Advisory Council on polling place acessibility under the Help America Vote Act.
What’s really unfortunate here is that not only was this election poorly run, but White’s own character and integrity is now in question, because instead of being straight with the voters and the media early on, she stalled and gave answers that were less than forthcoming.
White will have a long way to go to regain the public’s trust, if she ever gets it back at all.
