So, the Secretary of State’s Office’s official explanation for the car stuff is, basically, that there are rules in place, and everyone, including Mark Martin and Doug Matayo, follows the rules to the letter? You may recall that Matayo ran…
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Alice In Blunderland
There was a lot of stuff to unpack in Thursday’s D-G article about the Secretary of State’s use of state cars. The biggest thing, however, was the misleading (at best) nature of Alice Stewart’s comments and explanations. So, with the…
Making a Mountain Out of a Non-Existent Molehill
Maybe I shouldn’t at this point, but I continue to find it absolutely hilarious how many Republicans on Twitter will lose their collective mind at the drop of hat without thinking through an entire issue.1 The Senate prevents a tax…
“The United States has a system of taxation by confession.” –Hugo Black
[Author’s note: The post kind of piggybacks Alison Slider’s article in the D-G today. One slight correction to that article, however; it was a current employee who tipped me off about the improper car use, not a former employee.] In…
Tiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side (Yes, it is)
[I promise a Mark Martin-free weekend, if only because I’m kind of sick of talking about him, but you’ll have to indulge me one more Martin-related post. –Ed.] After my last three posts, I did not expect a warm and…
“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.
Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State’s…