Post by bob quarteroni on Aug 7, 2013 10:02:48 GMT -5
I couldn't agree more. In fact, if anyone sets up a fund to help Walter with his legal expenses I would be happy to contribute.
The end of Walter Griffith term as County Controller has come to an end. It was revealed that Griffith will resign tomorrow effective at 11AM. Griffith who has had legal problems stemming from his indictment the weekend before the primary election (and you think old time power brokers are gone, they’ve just turned from politicians to business types) said he had no financial wherewithal to fight the charges against him. Make no mistake, Griffith made his own bed but this is typical Luzerne County politics at its best. When a guy is getting way too close or annoys the wrong people, he’s targeted. It makes iy easy though to self inflict the wounds on yourself, which he did.
Griffith was elected in 2009 as a reform watchdog. He defeated a field of candidates the GOP stalwarts in Luzerne County might have preferred. Griffith prevailed with a grass roots effort in both the primary and the General election. As Controller, there are those that said Griffith was a newshound. Others said his investigations should not have been so microscopic. Griffith was against the Home Rule Charter but worked with the new Charter once it passed. He was a lock for re-election until he, like another County Controller in the past overreached. Griffith leaves noting he was renominated by his party. In that regard, he was not repudiated by the voters but rather the Courts.
If anything, Griffith was way too open. If he had given those tapes to someone instead of calling to attention to himself, he might have survived cleanly. And the FBI would be looking more closely at CityVest than Griffith’s clumsy attempts at heroism. He was dedicated and his heart was in the right place. Unlike some of the politicians who served multiple terms in Luzerne County and fed at the trough.
Good luck Walter.
The end of Walter Griffith term as County Controller has come to an end. It was revealed that Griffith will resign tomorrow effective at 11AM. Griffith who has had legal problems stemming from his indictment the weekend before the primary election (and you think old time power brokers are gone, they’ve just turned from politicians to business types) said he had no financial wherewithal to fight the charges against him. Make no mistake, Griffith made his own bed but this is typical Luzerne County politics at its best. When a guy is getting way too close or annoys the wrong people, he’s targeted. It makes iy easy though to self inflict the wounds on yourself, which he did.
Griffith was elected in 2009 as a reform watchdog. He defeated a field of candidates the GOP stalwarts in Luzerne County might have preferred. Griffith prevailed with a grass roots effort in both the primary and the General election. As Controller, there are those that said Griffith was a newshound. Others said his investigations should not have been so microscopic. Griffith was against the Home Rule Charter but worked with the new Charter once it passed. He was a lock for re-election until he, like another County Controller in the past overreached. Griffith leaves noting he was renominated by his party. In that regard, he was not repudiated by the voters but rather the Courts.
If anything, Griffith was way too open. If he had given those tapes to someone instead of calling to attention to himself, he might have survived cleanly. And the FBI would be looking more closely at CityVest than Griffith’s clumsy attempts at heroism. He was dedicated and his heart was in the right place. Unlike some of the politicians who served multiple terms in Luzerne County and fed at the trough.
Good luck Walter.