April 19, 2007
Deanron2

Ron Sims will introduce the new King County elections director today at noon.

I have a prior engagement, cannot attend the press conference and will be away from my desk. Feel free to watch the Executive's website for the press release and post the news in the comments.

Regarding Brian Newby, who had been speculated earlier as a possible nominee. A reporter from Kansas City just called me to ask about the incident with the inappropriate comment that was posted on this blog last Friday. He told me that Newby confirmed today that he had indeed been a finalist for the King County job, but stated emphatically that he wouldn't be taking the job.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 19, 2007 10:39 AM | Email This
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1. I wonder if this appointment will be like the latest one from the Seattle School Board: The only warm body to apply for the job gets it.

Posted by: G Jiggy on April 19, 2007 11:36 AM
2. I predict the new elections director will be from Chicago, where they've raised election corruption to an art form.

Posted by: Obi-Wan on April 19, 2007 11:43 AM
3. I see the Seattle Times has listed Sherill Huff as being named the new elections director. Here is what they list as her background:

Huff previously worked for eight years as the Kitsap County elected auditor and has worked in the King County elections office for 2 ½ years.

Notice she has worked in the KCE for the last 2.5 years. So she started right around the time of the 04 debacle. Here is a link:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003673096_webelexdir19m.html

Posted by: TrueSoldier on April 19, 2007 12:08 PM
4. Spent all that nationwide search money with Waldrons and they had the candidate in house all this time.

http://www.waldronhr.com/currentjobs/jobs.asp

Seems there is no end to the wastefull spending at King County.

Great use of taxpay money!

Posted by: RG on April 19, 2007 12:19 PM
5. Looks like Sherril Huff Menees was a last second grab to keep Sims from looking bad when their front-runner, Mr. Brian Newby of the uncontrollable blog posts, had to be jettisoned for the good of the team.

Hoo-boy! Hmmm.....She's got quite the checkered past across the sound in Kitsap County.

Posted by: Voter on April 19, 2007 01:12 PM
6. Sherill Huff-Maness is a long time Democrat Party activist. Perfect selection for this job. Simms still has total control in the elections office and a guarentee that his wishes will be carried out.

Posted by: The Chief on April 19, 2007 01:15 PM
7. See my prophetic comment #4 from last June. Why settle for Logan when Sims can have Logan's mentor? Sherril Huff could be the one person more responsible than anyone else for the Dean Logan debacle of 2004, and now she's in charge. Wow! I hope we don't regret pushing Logan onto Los Angeles.

http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/006395.html

Posted by: MJC on April 19, 2007 01:39 PM
8. Isn't Kitsap County Elections the former home of Dean Logan? Wonder if Sherrill received "good home training" from the Master himself?!

Posted by: suzihomemaker on April 19, 2007 01:39 PM
9. Here's a little history on Sherril Huff:

"When Logan was in sixth grade in 1978, he began his political life with sign waving and stamp licking in the campaign office of Sherril Huff during her run for Kitsap County commissioner."
- Living the political life 365 days a year, November 10, 2004

Sherril Huff hired Logan to work part time in the Kitsap County licensing office after he graduated from Bremerton High School in 1986. - Logan Bio

Logan hires Sherril Huff as Deputy Elections Director in 2005 after the debacle that may result in his forced resignation. - Seattle Times today

Sherril Huff appointed by Sims to replace Logan after his departure.

Sounds to me like a strategy to get a like-minded Democrat activist into the Elections Office that was implemented 2 years ago.

Posted by: MJC on April 19, 2007 02:03 PM
10. You can't make sh*t like this up!!
I would say Sims has lost his mind.....however that would be conceding that Sims ever had one to lose!
Unbelievable.
Need to do records request & find out how much Waldron was paid to do this search.

Posted by: Mr. Cynical on April 19, 2007 02:10 PM
11. This appointment will cinch the passage of I-25.
All that needs to be done is to further develop a little more more on the bones of MJC's post.
Now it's time for the public to "vet" Sims appointment.

Posted by: Mr. Cynical on April 19, 2007 02:13 PM
12. Wonder if Sherrill received "good home training" from the Master himself?!

Actually, it was the other way around... Logan got his "good home trainin'" from her.

Posted by: Mike H on April 19, 2007 02:28 PM
13. Any ideas on what we, private citizens, can do to insure these goons are doing the job they are hired to do. (or make sure they're not doing the job they were hired to do)

Posted by: dan on April 19, 2007 02:33 PM
14. It's fun looking at the dirty little nepotism circles of Sims and the King County Democrat Machine. You have to give them an A+ for being as brazen as they are. A palpable sense of impropriety or nepotism? Bahhhhhh, march on!

Doesn't this remind everyone of the Cantwell-Dotzauer connection? I know that this is to a certain degree rampant in all areas of life. But Democrats take it to a new level in their brazen carriage of anything, no matter how unseamly it appears.

They all studied well under Billy Jeff!

Posted by: Jeff B. on April 19, 2007 03:17 PM
15. I seem to have this damn song by The Who stuck in my head...

"Meet the new Boss! Same as the old Boss!"


Posted by: Smoley on April 19, 2007 03:18 PM
16. Good old Sherril usually stays in one place for 2 years or less, so don't fret.

Posted by: kitsaper on April 19, 2007 03:21 PM
17. Wow---I'm waaay impressed that the KC reporter found out about "Inappropriate Comment-Gate"!congrats on nabbing Newby on that one!

Posted by: Michele on April 19, 2007 03:45 PM
18. search for this gal and you get nice eemails, including paste of Cynical..
http://www.biaw.com/Documents/fraud.pdf

Posted by: righton on April 19, 2007 03:59 PM
19. righton--
Pretty amazing any of these folks would concern themselves with what we say on this Blog, huh?!!
Unless of course, they KNOW we that we KNOW....you KNOW what I mean?

Posted by: Mr. Cynical on April 19, 2007 05:33 PM
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