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Subject: Dual Officeholding


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Date Posted: 04:36:46 05/20/14 Tue
 I have a question in regards to a public official's holding two offices within the same county. Isn't he, the prosecuting attorney suppose to represent the state of Indiana in all felony and misdeamenaor criminal cases? Why should he be allowed to find a loophole in the law and give the appearance of conflict of interest? How many times has McHenry recused himself of important county commissioner votes because he was in a conflict of interest working as a special crimes unit investigator while on the county dole and therefore in reality having the ability to vote himslef a raise or money to be appropriated to his department? Isn't the DA smart enough to see he should not be helping McHenry get elected and simultaneously think that switching the source of the grant money and trying to find a loophole in ethical???? I mean this bothers me so much that he is even trying to skirt the law as our prosecutor!
According to the AG's dual office holding guide, "...even if there is no injury or actual benefit from the conflict of interest, the law does not permit public servants to place themselves in a situation where they may be tempted to do wrong. To deter conflicts of interests, the courts hold all such conflicting employment VOID!"
Why are they blatantly skirting the intent of the law???? Is this proof they are corrupt? Should a compliant be made to their board of ethics? Can the citizens bring a class action law suit if McHenry wins the election and Negangard doesn't remove him from his investigator job?
According to the AG's guide "The employing governmental entity(i.e. SCU) must either remove the employee or forfeit a portion of the federal assistance equal to two years salary of the employee."
I mean the County Republican Chair also works in the DOJ, why are the Republicans so excepting of this poor decision making, and appearance of corruption and malfeaseance?
Don't Dearborn County resident's deserve lawyers and DA'a with high ethical standards? Why does it seem everyone just excepts corruption as "the way it is"? It doesn't have to be that way. Shame on the 9% of Republicans that voted for these shameful public servants this past Primary!
I hope there is a lawyer that reads this that is not connected to the DA and McHenry that can give me unbias answers to the questions.
Any Republicans out there with real intelligence and sense of ethics should vote for the Democrat, because they can't be worse than these two.
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Re: Dual Officeholdinginsider07:16:21 05/20/14 Tue
Re: Dual OfficeholdingTo Insider09:04:39 05/20/14 Tue
Re: Dual OfficeholdingInquis23:15:50 05/20/14 Tue
Re: Dual OfficeholdingUnsat01:27:24 05/21/14 Wed
Re: Dual OfficeholdingYawn....20:12:57 05/26/14 Mon

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