Messenger Post Newspapers covered the story on the (trumped up) charges against GOP offical Andrew Moore being thrown out by Judge Richard Keenan. It’s too bad it took this long for this malicious attack on Mr. Moore and his family by the District Attorney’s Office to end. This will go down in local history as one of the worst examples of abuse of political power I’ve ever seen.
As I understand it, the judge threw out all the charges because there wasn’t even the slightest bit of evidence to allow a trial to go forward. And the D.A.’s Office didn’t know that? Clearly this proves one of two things:
1. What everyone has believed all along to be the case with this is in fact true. That this was nothing more than a government funded political hit on Mr. Moore by an office controlled by a member of the opposing political party conducted during a local election year solely to try to help the Monroe County Democratic party take control of the County Legislature. The now known trumped up charges against Mr. Moore were used in Democrat party political campaign mailings in ever single competitive race that Democrats hoped to pick up. Or,
2. That the District Attorney’s Office under Democrat leadership is completely and utterly incompetent for not understanding the law enough to the degree that the entire office of taxpayer-funded attorneys couldn’t figure out that the evidence (LOL!), was solid enough to warrant the charges they were trying to bring against Mr. Moore. The D.A.’s Office with their army of attorneys also could not figure out that the law they were trying to use did not apply, despite prominent legal opinions that stated such.
Whichever is true (maybe they both are) the public now has little to no faith in our District Attorney’s Office. This fiasco was an embarrassment to that office and to our community.
Once again, Monrorising offers our well wishes to Mr. Moore, his wife and his young children. It was horrible what the local Democrats tried to do to you just to try to win political campaigns. Godspeed.
The District Attorney owes Mr. Moore and his young family an apology. After what they did to them, this is the LEAST they can do. Personally, I think they should do more.
Footnote: Seeing as it’s my very strong belief that the D&C clearly favors the local Democratic Party in this community no matter what bad things they do, I’m making a concerted effort to try NOT to give any publicity to our local fish wrapper, so I’m linking to the Post story even though it’s not very thorough.
C’mon MPN, step up your game and we’ll do our small part to promote your stories.
(Update: Cincinnatus rightly points out that it was D&C reporter Gary Craig that obtained and included the legal opinion that the charges were being applied incorrectly in this case by D.A. Mike Green’s Office. Good point Cinci. Newspaper reporters that report the news fairly are far and few between these days and certainly shouldn’t be lumped in with the rest. I personally do consider Mr. Craig to be one of the rare fair ones.)