So Jon Elrod slipped up and handed a few campaign letters to a legislative staffer to mail for him. At least he admitted it immediately, apologized, and said it will never happen again. Unlike the case with most politicians, I actually trust Jon to do what he says.
Brian Bosma probably has the right of it — the staffer should never have accepted the letters to mail in the first place.
And then there are the Dumbs.
Indiana Democratic Party Chairman Dan Parker said Democrats had heard that Elrod was working on his campaign while in the House chamber, so they sent a staff member with a video camera to watch.
From a House balcony, the aide twice videotaped Elrod, once Feb. 5 and once Tuesday, signing the campaign letters.
“It raises questions about Jon Elrod’s ethics,” Parker said. “Here he is on the floor of the House doing campaign work. That says that politics is more important than the people’s work.”
No, Mr. Parker, what this raises questions about is YOUR ethics. Instead of asking Jon privately if he was possibly violating the rules, you ambushed him with a video camera. I find nothing ethical about that, and worse, I find it ungentlemanly and boorish. And quintessentially Democrat, now that I think about it, given that Democrats are the party of personal destruction.
Get a life, you Dumb jerks. Jon’s more of an upright man in his little finger than Andre is in his entire body plus his grandma’s.