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We are in the second?nasty battle in the county for the position of the Democratic Commissioner of Elections. This is a paid position at the Board of Elections where?the members of the county Dem committee vote in their choice every two years. The County Legislature then appoints that person to the position.?

Our county Democratic Commission is a bit of a "my way or the highway" person. She's been in the job a long time. Two years ago she wanted the current commissioner out and endorsed this person B for the job. I didn't think B was qualified but the committee voted B in.?

Now everyone is railing against B and another person H is running for the job with the support of the commissioner. H is very competent and seems like a good fit because she's both worked the election process and has run for positions. B has not. She was a union leader. But B is a hard worker.

The argument against B is that a) she's cooperating too closely with the Republican commissioner and that is hurting Democratic candidates and also voters and b) she's trying to extend her appointment to a 4 year term along with the Republican commissioner. I have no personal knowledge of any of this but emails have been retrieved using the state's freedom of information act, and show some proof of what is being alleged in a).?

But it is all so nasty. Instead of sticking to facts, words of people like me are being twisted and reported behind our backs. I corrected a couple of statements at our meeting yesterday - when B said there was absolutely no voter suppression here, I said she couldn't possibly know that unless someone complained. So she corrected her statement by adding 'to my knowledge'. Then another (troublemaker) member said that when he voted, he saw no intimidation or suppression of voters and I said that he couldn't know that. People who are intimidated or turned off are going to walk away, not make a big deal about it. I'm sure he's the one who twisted my words into a complaint that I saw voter suppression when I worked at the Board of Elections during early voting.?

Le sigh!?

End of rant