Salter Blog - Landrum: His campaign manufactured voting record evidence

ClarionLedger.com - Sid Salter Blog - Landrum: His campaign manufactured voting record evidence - The bottom line on the David Landrum voting controversy is that exercising his right to vote apparently wasn't a priority with him and that for most of the last 7 years, he either wasn't properly registered to vote, didn't vote in some elections by his own admission and has to date failed to produce credible evidence of votes in the key 2003 elections he said he voted in by absentee ballot.

Then, to make matters worse, Landrum's campaign released alleged evidence of he and his wife's absentee voting that turned out to be, in significant part at least, manufactured evidence.

Nobody asked him anything about his wife's voting record, but his campaign volunteered it and when it was put to the test, the materials Landrum's campaign released claimed signatures that didn't belong to Mrs. Landrum and that don't match Landrum's other public signatures.

Landrum is adamant that both he and his wife voted. He said today that neither he nor his wife had seen the Landrum campaign press release containing the false signatures prior to their release, but that he would not throw his "campaign staff under the bus."

But he did not dispute the fact that much of the information contained in his campaign's press release purporting to document he and his wife's absentee voting was false and that several of the signatures were false.

In each instance — his botched voter registration, his botched press release with the manufactured signatures — the common denominator is that he said he trusted someone else to attend to something that should have been given his personal attention. That's an explanation, but it's certainly not an excuse.

David Landrum is asking 710,000 citizens of the 3rd Congressional District to trust him with their only vote in Congress. But over the last seven years, Landrum hasn't even been able to effectively manage his own vote.

Why, then, should the people of the 3rd District trust him with our vote in Congress?