Kevin Shelley Deserves Our Support [View All]

[Helga Scow Stern]

I had to convince myself of this.

For a first step, I decided to write to him to express my support. You can too at [e-mail]

Here is the letter I wrote to him:

Dear Mr. Shelley,
I am shocked at what has happened with you. I have spent most of the day and evening reading everything I could find on your forced resignation and the charges brought against you. While I am sure you were not perfect, you did far more good than harm, and your "abuses," while perhaps in need of correction, do not warrant your leaving office. I am sure such close scrutiny would turn up any number of such skeletons in any of your colleagues' closets.

I am also deeply saddened to hear that this has come in the wake of your mother's illness. The LA Times at least had the decency to say that it was the last straw for you, and why you ultimately gave up.

If there is any good to come of this, it may be to expose the partisan nature--what they accuse you of--of the Elections Assistance Commission in spending months investigating you while they let the far more guilty Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio slide by uncensured.

My prayers are with you, and I want you to know, as I am sure you must, that many in this state and around the country, and in the world, for that matter, deeply support you and are very sorry for what is happening. No one is perfect, but we know you have tried your utmost to do the right thing. It is not easy being in the public arena, and even harder to have some integrity in a climate where it is unscrupulously attacked and ostracized.

Sincerely,

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