More Montco Courthouse Intrigue

For those who haven't been keeping score, the current Republican Montgomery County controller decided not to seek re-election after there was some question of the validity of some signatures on his ballot petitions. One of the assistant district attorneys who was also running for controller is now unopposed. (See my earlier post on that here.)

In the intervening months the county controller has discovered a few things that he thinks might be irregular. The latest is political work done by the administrative assistant of the First Assistant District Attorney, also the Republican candidate for DA since the current district attorney is now one of the Republican candidates for county commissioner. The two articles on this that I have found are by the same reporter but for different papers and some of the details are different. You'll have to read them both and see if you can figure everything out.

"DA claims a political vendetta," by Margaret Gibbons The Reporter Online 7/10

"County controller questions GOP fundraising effort," by Margaret Gibbons, Times Herald 7/02

Democratic candidate for District Attorney, Peter Amuso has said he will stop allowing political campaigns to be run out of the DA's office. (See my brief post on Amuso.)