Blunt's Eckersley Scandal, Day Two

The play that Team Blunt and GOP operatives are making in response to Scott Eckersley's public announcement of his wrongful and illegal termination is now crystal clear.  Slime mongers like Richie Aubuchon, Jeff Roe, John Hancock and "Scooter" Jackson have been tasked with making public assaults on Eckersley's character, many of which --like sly insinuations about Eckersley's sexual orientation-- wouldn't have any impact on the situation in any scenario.  Their game plan is to try to make people believe that Eckersley was a bad person who deserved to be fired, and they will go to any length --such as making overblown claims about warrants issued in regard to automobile summons-- to effectuate the sliming of Eckersley. 

But let's imagine for a minute that all of the very nasty things that the Blunt administration's character assassins want us to believe about Scott Eckersley true.

Fact is --even if everything they said about Eckersley is true (a point which is very much in dispute)-- it would not change the fact that the Blunt administration's firing of him broke the law and deserves severe punishment. 

Here's why.  The only relevant points in the entire discussion are about a) when the de facto decision was made to fire Eckersley and b) what rationale for firing Eckersley could the Blunt administration have had when that decision was made.­

Once we learn that Eckersley, for all intents and purposes, had been terminated on Saturday, September 22 and that Ed Martin and Team Blunt did their exhaustive dirt-digging on Eckersleyover the period September 24 through September 28 it is no longer logically possible to believe that he was fired over any of the supposed violations that were discovered during the "investigation."

But this sort of academic discussion is the height of silliness anyway, since everyone knows what really happened.  Scott Eckersley piped up one too many times to remind Matt Blunt and Ed Martin that they were destroying public documents which they had a duty to preserve and he was fired for it.  The timing couldn't have been more clear: Eckersley objected to the Governor's retention policy for the last time on October 20th or 21st, after which he never worked another day in the Governor's office. 

Attempts to make the discussion of Blunt's Eckersley scandal about anything but those relevant facts are nothing more than the desperate lashings out of a corrupt bunch who haven't any case to make on the merits.

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