I have to hand it to the hypocrites over at the the Democrat and Chronicle Editorial Page — they been able to go three whole days without an editorial criticizing Chili Supervisor David Dunning.

They are really unbelievable.  They went gaga over Dunning because he was historic, in their eyes anyways.  He announced his candidacy on their Chili blog last year and they were so excited.  This represented a new era in local politics.

Well, the guy’s election has as much to do with his opponent, former Supervisor Tracy Logel’s personality, as anything else.  Anyone who spent more than 3 minutes with her realized how difficult she was to work with. 

He starts the job and finds out that despite what Joe Morelle and the D&C editorial board say, Republicans aren’t really bad people.  In fact, he figures he can get more done for his town by working with them instead of trying to set up the 2009 campaign for a Democratic turnover.

Look at what the D&C had to say about Dunning:

Chili residents can only hope that Dunning is more sincere about his latest claim of looking out for their interests. What’s alarming isn’t that Dunning chose the GOP, but rather the way he went about it. This from someone who promised a new way of doing business.

Ah yes, there we go with that process thing again. 

Now I don’t know Dave Dunning, but maybe he had enough of the Democratic Party in his first three months in office.  Maybe he was disgusted by the former Democratic Party hero, Client Number 9 disgracing not only his family, but every citizen of our state.

Maybe he was disgusted about how the party buckled en mass to the will of one of the most divisive political figures, Assemblyman David Gantt, who champions himself as the local defender of the downtrodden.

Or, how about the fact that you can’t be a good Democrat and not support homosexual marriage or abortion on demand?

I still say Dunning is a man of character.  What would Joe Morelle or the D&C have to say if a Republican switched parties? 

Just a guess on my part, but I think their reaction would be totally different from how they view Supervisor Dunning’s switch.