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- From: Leah.Wesolowski@p0.f2.n373.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Leah Wesolowski)
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- Subject: Dist. 4 Election
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- Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 23:46:03 CST
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- In a previous message I stated that Glenn Nunley would be District
- 4's new commissioner. I am sad to report that this may, in fact, not
- become reality at all--even though Mr. Nunley received more LEGAL
- votes than Mr. Abernathy.
-
- WHY? (I had hoped you would ask that)
-
- Now I know you all can read the papers, but the papers aren't giving
- you the whole story...
-
- On Thursday I peeked into The Honorable Judge Riddick's office to
- say hi and casusally brought up the District 4 race. At that time
- he agreed with me when I said "It looks like the Coach got it."
- I was sure by the way that the Honorable Judge Riddick replied to
-
- me that he felt that Mr. Nunley had won fair and square.
-
- I was quite shocked to find the same Honorable Judge Riddick
-
- on Friday certifying the election. Having been through this June 2nd
- I learned then that once an election is "CERTIFIED" it is virtually
- impossible to get the decision changed.
-
- This distresses me. I hope that it distresses you. Even if
-
- you do not live in District 4, the issue is not who will serve, the
- issue is can we really have FAIR elections in Madison County?
-
- At one of my boxes (that I KNOW OF) over 230 people who were
-
- not eligible to vote in my race did so...This is also what happened
- in a much larger precint (37) to Coach Nunley and Grady Abernathy.
-
- The dellimma we face is that when we start to make an issue
-
- out of it (as we did over the re-districting of the same County
- Commission back in June) we {and I mean Republicans} are made to feel
- that we should be ashamed to "Cost this county another election".
- This is as far from the truth as one can get.
- First of all the blame lay squarely on the shoulders {in this
-
- case} of the Board of Registrars. It was that office which printed
- out the lists telling the polling officials which ballots to hand
- out. It is also the head of that office who personally told me in
- June that if I didn't quiet down that I I would be costing the county
- a new election. Frankly I am sick of this crap!
- Mr. Nunley paid for his signs, paid his filing fees, filled
-
- out his paperwork, went door to door on a bycycle and put a LOT of
- energy into his campaign. Simple addition and subtraction would tell
- any second grader that Mr. Nunley received more LEGAL votes and that
- SHOULD mean that he is in fact DISTRICT 4's new County Commissioner.
- Had it been the other way around Mr. Abernathy would already
-
- have been sworn in. It is because he is a Democrat--he's a good ole
- boy and he is also not being a good and decent person for just stepping
- down and doing what is right.
-
- Now I ask you...District 4 or not. to WRITE LETTERS about this to
- the Honorable Judge Riddick, Madison County Courthouse, Huntsville,
- Al. 35801.
- To Grady Abernathy, Seventh floor Madison County Courthouse, Huntsville,
- Al. 35801.
- To the Huntsville Times &News Madison County Record, Speakin' Out
- News et al... Please write. PLEASE!
- Leah
-
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