Late Filings For County Offices

Published by Clark Kant, Editor In Chief

Hermann Hearsay learned earlier this evening that two candidates for county-wide offices filed in the final hour of the open election filing period which ended at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, March 30.

Sharon Meyer will be running for County Clerk and filed as a Democrat.  She will run unopposed in the August primary election and then face incumbent Lesa Lietzow in the November general election.

Larry Miskel, Hermann's current mayor, will be running for Presiding Commissioner and filed as a Republican.  He will run against incumbent Ron Jost in the August primary.

Hemann Hearsay applauds Meyer and Miskel for stepping forth to challenge the entrenched incumbents.

Clark Kant
Editor In Chief
http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/

Willie Nelson - You Were Always On My Mind

Personal Use Of County Assets By Elected County Officials And County Employees

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, Investigative Reporter

County-owned telephones, computers, vehicles, and other assets ..... Do you think elected county officials and employees should be able to use these things for their own personal purposes?  Do you think elected county officials should be attending to their own personal business during normal office hours when they are being paid to do the work of the county?

You say no they shouldn't!  I happen to agree with you completely!  And I think most of the hard-working citizens of Gasconade County agree as well.

During the past several months I've been investigating the extent of this problem here in Gasconade County.  My confidential sources have pointed to a few incidents where county vehicles have been used for the personal purposes of a county employee.  I currently have in my possession several emails of a political nature which have absolutely nothing to do with county business and which were date and time stamped during the normal office hours of one of our prominent elected officials.  I presume these emails were sent out from a county-owned computer.  These emails were not sent directly to me, but were forwarded on to me by one of the original recipients.  Were I to publish these emails, the elected county official who originated them would be very embarrassed.  For now, I have chosen not to identify this official.  However, if I continue to receive more personal emails from this official which are date and time stamped during her normal office work hours, I will change my mind and blow the whistle!

The information I have has been turned over to my elected representative on the County Commission.  I have asked him to disuss these issues with the state auditors who are currently in town.  It is my position that these issues need to be further investigated.  Official audits of telephone and computer records need to be conducted.  Elected county officials who have access to county vehicles and who have employees under their charge should be interviewed about the policies regarding personal use of county assets within their departments.

Do you have any information regarding the personal use of county-owned assets here in Gasconade Reports?  If you do, I urge you to contact the state auditors who are currently working four days per week at the County Courthouse.

Jimmy Oldsun
Investigative Reporter
http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/

All Birds Fly FREE On Hermann Hearsay!

Published by Lois Lame, Lifestyles Reporter and Subscription Services

One of our competitors is making a big deal of their April promotion. They are offering a FREE subscription service to spouses!  Their promotion is that .... "Spouses fly free!"

I want to remind all of our readers that reader subscriptions here at Hermann Hearsay are totally FREE ...... FREE to you, FREE to your spouse, FREE to your snotty-nose kids, FREE to your domestic partner (if you swing that way), FREE to all your girlfriends (if you're a playboy), FREE to your brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews and nieces ,,,,,,, in other words we are FREE to anyone and everyone.  Always have been; always will be.

We were wondering if C.N.L. will be refunding the annual subscription fees for spouses who have already paid?  Will the April offer be retroactive?

Here at Hermann Hearsay we do not employ gimmicky promotional schemes.  We don't offer one-time discounts, one-time promotions or one-time anything.  Rates and fees are always the same here at Hermann Hearsay ..... FREE!  Our April promotion is the same as our March promotion which was the same as our February promotion which was the same as our January promotion.  At Hermann Hearsay, we are always FREE!  FREE to everyone each month throughout the year!

Why pay more?  Why respond to gimmicky promotions?

Lois Lame 
Lifestyles Reporter and Subscription Services
http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/