Public Officials and Criticism

Goes With the Territory

I've been hearing that I'm being criticized for, myself, criticizing several of Mr. Drescher's endorsers.  However, I've gone down the list of Drescher's endorsers as publicized on his site or in the Newcastle News, and every one of them are public officials or former public officials.  So, in effect, they are using their positions, some of which are very well paid and others are volunteer (it's makes no difference either way), to effect the outcome of an election.  Generally, I would not criticize a non-public official who endorsed Drescher, because they are just exercising their rights in a democracy, and I respect that immensely.  However, there is a different and higher standard for someone who is using their government position to effect an election, so they are subject to criticism.  By the way, a lot of my criticism of Drescher's endorsers is trying to be light and sometimes humorous.  I will take the criticism of my criticizing public officials with a grain of salt, but there's no apologies, here.

-- Mark Greene, Candidate for Newcastle City Council, Position 6

[revised on 10/14/13]

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