{"id":2193,"date":"2010-09-17T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/political-sport-in-elco\/"},"modified":"2010-09-17T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:50:51","slug":"political-sport-in-elco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/political-sport-in-elco\/","title":{"rendered":"political sport in ElCo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"articleTitle\" class=\"articleTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_16098143\">Denver Post 9\/17\/10: Elbert County mired in crises<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Let&#8217;s break this turkey down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No county officials will go on the record to comment on the article.<\/li>\n<li>John Dunn is aggrieved over the situation, which is his normal mental state when it comes to Elbert County.<\/li>\n<li>Norm Happel is aggrieved over the situation, which is his normal mental state when it comes to Elbert County.<\/li>\n<li>Jim Whistler is aggrieved over the situation, and he is the underdog in the Treasurers race and has a political ax to grind.<\/li>\n<li>P.J. Trostel&#8217;s indictment has many counts, but prosecutors always over-charge, and all the counts seem to be not very material in value.<\/li>\n<li>Megan Taunton&#8217;s alleged breach also appears to lack much materiality.<\/li>\n<li>And the sitting commissioners decided to refinance county debt, a decision that they were clearly empowered to make.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article reeks of election year politics.\u00a0 It&#8217;s main value appears to be as an indicator of a linkage between John Dunn and Jim Whistler. \u00a0 Mr. Whistler circulated an email a couple weeks ago that grew out of a freedom of information request he had made for the 2009 county audit report.\u00a0 He then cherry-picked a couple pages out of the 50 page document and forwarded those pages with his own suggestions of county financial impropriety.\u00a0 A friend routed the email to me.\u00a0 I asked Mr. Whistler to release the entire audit report so that I could make an informed analysis of his charges.\u00a0 He refused to release the entire report.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the facts as I see them.\u00a0 Draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post 9\/17\/10: Elbert County mired in crises Let&#8217;s break this turkey down: No county officials will go on the record to comment on the article. John Dunn is aggrieved over the situation, which is his normal mental state when it comes to Elbert County. Norm Happel is aggrieved over the situation, which is his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}