Now that Stufflebean has officially refused to resign the special election campaign is fully underway. Reports indicate Stufflebean held a gathering for friends and supporters and the recall committee, Citizens for Fair and Open Government met earlier this week to plan their strategy to oust him from office. Meanwhile, The World, trying another of their amazing feats of gymnastic fence straddling published yet another ‘opinion piece‘ designed, I guess to convince the reader the recall is only about one issue.

Three months after the cutback, voters have heard little substantive debate about whether the cutback was right or wrong. Recall advocates initially have focused on the flawed process, rather than on the decision’s merits. Stufflebean has been publicly elusive. Both strategies have worn thin.

The World, as does Stufflebean, ignore the recent drowning of Dean Caudle after driving into flooded, but not barricaded County roads. Like Stufflebean, The World editorial makes statements without backup and blanket assumptions with no background.

By orchestrating 22 layoffs, Stufflebean generated 22 enemies and gave them ample free time to circulate recall petitions. So it’s no surprise they rapidly collected the necessary signatures. But they have yet to demonstrate their campaign is much more than a grudge against the man who fired them.

The dozens of individuals not affiliated with the road crew but united in their concern for public safety and public process that worked to obtain signatures should feel slighted by the editor for his refusal to acknowledge them. Given that Stufflebean obviously had some help drafting his statement of justification sparing the commissioner further grammatical and spelling embarrassment and the general similarities between the editorial and his statement, I wonder if we can surmise who edited his statement?