Dear Editor:
How revealing that Steve Ehlmann has hired John Hancock to run his recently announced campaign for County Executive, even as Hancock is still cleaning up the GOP’s slimy mess from Sally Faith’s 2004 campaign for State Representative (R-15). It just goes to show that the Republicans in this county make no apology for employing dishonesty in their bids to take public office.
What Faith’s campaign did to the two-term, incumbent Representative Tom Green in the November election was a travesty. In mid-October, the state Republican Party committee, for which Hancock is the spokesman, sent at least two mailings to Green’s constituents, including me. The pieces were designed to look like picture postcards, complete with land and seascapes of an exotic locale. These attractive but counterfeit greetings states that “Liberal Tom Green” had spent wads of taxpayer money to go on a paid vacation to Alaska where he enjoyed such lavish perks a gourmet cuisine, deep sea fishing, and whale-watching aboard a charter boat.
As voters later found out, after Green secured a court order forcing the Republicans to stop these lies, the faked “vacation” concocted by the GOP had actually been a planned annual conference that was to have been hosted by the Council of State Governments. In other words, it was going to be a convention for officials of various state governments across the country. Even more outrageous than misrepresenting the nature of the conference and the reasons a decent and committed state legislator might attend, the Republican committee completely failed to mention that the conference never took place. That’s right. Green never went to Alaska. In fact, the entire Alaskan conference was scrapped as early as 2001 due to security concerns in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
And just last month, the state Republican committee spokesman and Ehlmann campaign manager, John Hancock, explained all of this to the Post –Dispatch by stating the committee believed the information it mailed out about Green was true when it sent out the fake postcards. I, for one, am not stupid enough to believe that. Whether the Republican committee deliberately deceived it by purposely avoiding the truth or it simply offers this feigned ignorance as a flimsy pretense to cover up deliberately deceiving the voters, the committee perpetrated a fraud.
Considering that almost three years elapsed between the cancellation of the Alaskan conference and the mailing of the “Alaskan vacation” postcards by the Republican committee, it is clear that Hancock and his party leaders are very comfortable playing fast and loose with the truth. And the closer we get to election time, the faster and looser you can expect them to play in order to win.
I thought honesty was a conservative value, however it appears that Hancock and his Republican state committee not only bore false witness against our neighbor Tom Green, they did it in order to steal the election from him. (See, Commandments VIII and IX). And apparently, Steve Ehlmann doesn’t mind any of this one bit.
Gracie White
Dear Editor
The House of Elohim would like to express their appreciation to Jim Swinney at City Hall of St. Charles and Paul at T.G.B. We thank you for working so diligently on the septic problems at 912 N. Second Street, St. Charles, Mo.
Thank you,
Pastor Donna Dake
