Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Recall Ruckus

CLARIFICATION
Over at GeeGuy's, there's been quite a discussion about the Writ of Mandamus that was served to Debbie Mart, Cascade County Elections supervisor.

According to the article in today's Tribune, Ms. Mart made her decisions to reject the petitions based upon the advice given by the county's civil attorney, Brian Hopkins.

Ms. Mart has taken some hits from at least one of GeeGuy's more outspoken posters, but did she really have a choice? She's a county employee taking the advice of the county's attorney, who is supposed to know the law and issues an opinion based upon that knowledge.

Is Ms. Mart qualified to go against the attorney's opinion? I would bet not.

Had she, what kind of problems could that have caused for the county?; For herself?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mabey Brian hopkins should do her job then, and she should retire. Obviously we don't need to pay for her to work there if all she does is hand off her work for other people to decide its fate. Might save us taxpayers a little money.

WolfPack said...

Anon- By that line of reasoning why would anyone ever consult an attorney for work reasons? Your anger is making you seem foolish. I for one am happy about county workers being meticulous by assuring the legality of their work product before they make it public. Getting a legal opinion on non-routine matters in question is her job.