Will Statom, the Delaware County GOP voter registration official who assaulted a reporter at the Delaware County Building received a 3 day suspension for his attack. I never tried it, but the places I worked, I would’ve gotten fired if I’d attacked a member of the public. Statom’s reasoning is laughable. He says that he was mad at the Muncie Star Press reporter he tackled for “promoting” a public meeting that he says was “illegal.” The reason the meeting was illegal, according to Statom was because it wasn’t publicized 48 hours in advance. The reason for the notice requirements is to make sure that the public knows about public meetings.
So, if I have this straight, Statom was pissed off because the Star Press publicized a meeting that Statom felt was insufficiently publicized.
Now, I can’t say what Statom’s motivations are; I’m not a mind reader. But, his actions and aggravation make a whole lot more sense if you suppose that delay in processing a flood of new voter registrations generated by the Obama campaign is politically advantageous for the Delaware County GOP. That’d make more sense than his stated position, in any case.
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