{"id":5544,"date":"2004-02-24T06:34:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T13:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/02\/24\/vote-da-bum-out.html"},"modified":"2004-02-24T06:34:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-24T13:34:52","slug":"vote_da_bum_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/24\/vote_da_bum_out.html","title":{"rendered":"Vote da bum out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the day for Arapahoe Co. residents to recall Tracy Baker<\/a>. Baker, our beloved county clerk-recorder, has pretty conclusively been shown to have behaved with wild impropriety with an assistant, showering his girlfriend with promotions and huge pay raises, all the while exchanging hot e-mails <\/a>with her during the business day.<\/p>\n

When a GOP office holder has become a big enough embarrassment that the GOP county board of supervisors and the state GOP leadership are demanding he resign, you know something’s gotten pretty bad.<\/p>\n

Is it worth the $400k to hold a special recall election? Maybe, maybe not. But, then, what’s the hidden cost of someone like Baker staying in office and setting the tone for local government.<\/p>\n

I, for one, will be thrilled to not have to write the jerk a check for my car registration every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the day for Arapahoe Co. residents to recall Tracy Baker. 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