Thursday, March 6, 2008

Salter: Butler & Danks - Snowjob for Landrum

ClarionLedger.com - Sid Salter Blog - Maybe that March snow the weather man is promising has started early... - I have no idea what possessed Madison County Election Commissioner Sue Sautermeister to purge the 2008 Madison County voter rolls in the manner she did. Clearly, David Landrum and his family were not treated fairly in that situation.

But to attempt to link that action in 2008 in Madison County to Landrum's admitted manufacture of false evidence that he voted in Hinds County in 2003 as Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler and former Jackson mayor Dale Danks are doing is simply laughable. It's comparing apples and lugnuts. Landrum and his campaign manager Neil Forbes have already admitted that the campaign made false claims about 2003 signatures that they had earlier promised were legitimate.

What Butler and Danks are doing is providing political cover for Landrum and hoping that the voters become so confused by the 2008 Madison County problem that they will conveniently forget the outrages that Landrum's campaign has already engaged in over in Hinds County's 2003 vote.

The better question is why.

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