For you regulars, yes, this is the same Commissioner Hall with whom I corresponded about poor Charlie's case, and was told that we just needed to let the lawyers handle it. (That was in January 2017.) In her email to me then, Hall wrote:
"I read parts of your blog. I was reminded of my own uncle and the deep love we had for each other."
Whatever. When my sister later asked her for any kind of an update on our demand to correct the erroneous Cause of Death on her son's Death Certificate, a gatekeeper stepped in between them... The Corporation Counsel again, only this time, one named Amber BB.
BB emailed my sister a horrifying cluster of words that intentionally shreds the very parchment upon which is written the social contract of all free people. The county's Corporation Counsel - they're taking applications again, by the way - deliberately contravened the citizen's absolute right to representative government, saying the Commissioner was not at liberty to answer her, uh, constituent.
(And we wonder why three out of the last nine presidents have been impeached... 10 if you count Gerald Ford.)
Anyway, BB got fired. Why is anybody's guess. Her replacement, with whom I had some interesting interactions, also got fired, and that's what prompted Hall's sudden plunge into the icy waters of public discourse. In her op/ed piece ratting out her fellow Commissioner, Julie Rogers (ostensibly for leaving a voice mail having to do with Beth's firing), she at first pats herself on the back amply:
"As an elected official, I listen to people every day sharing their hopes and dreams for the future, but more recently, sharing their fears about our government and the moral clarity of our elected officials."
Don't worry, I'm not going to do this all day. Suffice it to say that Hall gave our grieving family nothing but lip service at first, and then nothing at all. She did nothing to further our hope that Charlie's name not be smeared with the false allegation of Suicide, or to our dream that the Michigan Supreme Court will someday divest this little county of its notions of Total Supremacy.
In her published broadside, she took another deep step into the cranberries, cribbing:
"According to the Pew Research Center’s Public Trust in Government poll, the percent of Americans claiming to trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time has fallen steadily from 73% in 1958 (the first year Pew ran the poll) to 17% in 2019."
YEAH. BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU. People who sit by and do nothing while Kalamazoo County doesn't do the right thing.
In my opinion, Tracy's just smearing her fellow Democrat because, golly, they both have ambitions for a State House of Representatives run. They want to get the f*ck out of Kalamazoo and head on out to Lansing, so as to serve under Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Legislature (a.k.a. Snow White and the 148 Dwarfs). It's understandable.
And let's face it. Out of those two, Julie Rogers is the more attractive candidate, enough said about that. It is Commissioner Rogers who is blamed by the disgruntled ex-employee White in her attempt to deprive the taxpayers of money in an enrichment-seeking lawsuit. Beth is sort of alleging that Mrs. Rogers lorded it over her, and I emailed the Commissioner about that, to thank her if that was indeed the case.
Democrats, in Kalamazoo County and elsewhere, face a steep enough hill as they get ready for the Trump Re-Election Juggernaut next year. Infighting, for whatever opaque motives Tracy Hall may have, is not part of the solution... Especially when ya don't mean it.
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