Salter Blog: Landrum and his lawyer

ClarionLedger.com - Sid Salter Blog - The 110th Congress: The chair recognizes Congressman Landrum's attorney, Dale Danks, who will speak for him on this next important bill... - As the multiple stories that have become David Landrum's truly pitiful excuses for explaining the fact that making sure he voted or was even registered to vote over the last seven years continue to evolve, now it's come down to the suggestion that Landrum's somehow the target of a more than five-year conspiracy by election officials in two counties.

Caught in the web of their own failed efforts to misdirect the public and the press in this matter, now it's come to claiming bizarre conspiracy theories that ignore the basic facts of how one casts an affidavit ballot.

And that's after Landrum and his campaign manager have admitted that they offered fraudulent information to the media in an attempt to stifle criticism of his voting records from campaign opponents.

Somewhere, Sonny Montgomery must be coughing up a hairball.

Where to begin? I suppose the saddest part of the David Landrum appearance on the Paul Gallo Show today was the fact that his lawyer, Dale Danks, did most of the talking for him. Is that what we really want in a congressman? A guy who has to have a mouthpiece when the pressure's on?

If Landrum's elected, is Danks going to go hold his hand on Capitol Hill as well? Why not just cut out the middle man and send Danks?

But the bottom line here is that the 2008 Sue Sautermeister shenanigans in Madison County has absolutely nothing to do with the absence of Landrum's signature on a very present 2003 Hinds County District 78 Affidavit Ballot Register. The allegations that Rounsaville consultant and Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry stole documents from that Hinds County box — if they were true — still doesn't trump the fact that there's no evidence that Landrum was ever handed an absentee ballot in the first place because he wasn't registered to vote in Hinds County and didn't sign the Hinds County Precinct 78 affidavit ballot register that is still in the box. No affidavit register book signature, no affidavit ballot.

How exactly could Perry steal something that the existing public records proves would not and should not be there in the first place? No affidavit register book signature, no affidavit ballot. This isn't brain surgery here, folks.

Perry is set to appear on Gallo's show tomorrow morning to answer the allegations made by the Landrum camp.

Landrum's political wounds here are singularly self-inflicted.