I am boiling after hearing KCAL News on Shelley & McCormack

[rumpel]

I heard a segment in the news, when anchor David Jackson asked, I guess a political commentator, by the name of Jill Jackson (I think her last name is Jackson) about Shelley.
And she replied something to the tune of "the strange story about Shelley, first he was to resign and then he has some lose ends, and supposedly Connie McCormack stated, Shelley has to go.

She was very dismissive and ridiculing Shelley and I had the impression she was convinced of agreeing with what McCormack is trying to sell.

Here is some material on her pre-recall
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CityBeat: How do you respond to the charge by Kim Alexander of the California Voter Foundation that you put 40,000 votes at risk by asking Diebold to alter the software on the eve of the recall election?


Conny McCormack: That woman has absolutely no credentials in elections. It’s almost laughable. She says I put 40,000 votes at risk. I would never do that. I wouldn’t have a job if I did that.

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You are friends with Deborah Seiler, Diebold’s chief sales representative in California, and L.A. County is now buying equipment from Diebold. Is the friendship appropriate?


I’ve had a long-term friendship with her. There’s nothing wrong with a friendship. Has it influenced my judgment? Of course not. In terms of the Diebold contract for L.A. County, I was not on the evaluation committee. I removed myself from that. But Diebold was the only vendor that met all the requirements for L.A. County. Sequoia wrote a letter saying it could not meet the requirements. And ES&S failed the demonstration, because it couldn’t handle seven languages.

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"The standard is so much higher than any other equipment, and yet it is what is being bashed. DREs are 100 percent accurate."

http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=942&IssueNum=51

[kevinmc]

1. KCAL Political Reporters.......

Have their heads stuck so far up the Repukitans butts it's sickening. I hate watching anything to do with politics on that newscast.

[EFerrari]

2. They're full of it, rumpel.

Shelley's big crime was not to buy millions of dollars of machines. That's what they mean when they say "misspent HAVA money" as far as I can tell. They can't point to a transaction or to missing money or even a wild weekend in Bakersfield.

McCormak wants to change that. And I don't think she understands that we've got her number.

[rumpel]

3. McCormack has to go, and this woman needs some letters to the station.

but my connection is so slow, right now. I have to do it tomorrow.