by Ryan Hughes
WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. - The race for Worcester County State's Attorney has been pushed into the spotlight.State's Attorney Joel Todd is running for re-election and is seen in pictures with community leaders. The problem, officials say they're misleading. "You're sending out a piece to the voters that says look at these community leaders that support me, and he didn't have their permission to do it," said Lee McClaflin, Chairman of the Worcester County Republican Central Committee.
County Commissioner Bud Church is one of them. Now, officials say Todd committed a breach of trust. "He shouldn't have tried to draw other people in and use other people's political capital for his gain," said McClaflin."He had nothing to do with the final approval, he never saw it, he's busy doing his job," said Anita Todd, who designed the mailers.
Anita is Todd's wife and says she is the one responsible. She was balancing four other projects, and the final result stems from multi-tasking. "All the verbiage was the same on all of them, but I did need to make some changes with photos and I did forget to do that," said Anita.
Anita takes full responsibility and says the wording was intended to say Todd with community leaders, not community leaders support Joel Todd. Now, she hopes her mistake does not cost her husband the election. Todd himself declined to comment on the situation.
"Now, she hopes her mistake does not cost her husband the election."
ReplyDeleteI'm seeing most voters minds are made up with strong opinions to back up their choice.
Those inclined to vote for Todd will believe it was a mistake and those in Oglesby's camp will think it was intentional. This isn't a big enough deal to change most voters minds one way or the other.
If the Oglesby camp pulled a stunt like this, a certain blog would be burying him. But if Todd does it, it's an honest mistake. Tell the people in the pics that don't endorse Todd its an honest mistake!!
ReplyDeleteI'm still one of the undecided on this race and this passing of the buck concerns me. I would think that the candidate themselves would have been more aware of what was going on in their own campaign.
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