Local blogger Tony Wilkins takes note of what’s missing from the N&R’ local candidate rap sheet report.
I’ll cut the local paper of record some slack and venture that —– based on today’s roundup of local races here and here that they’ll revisit the state Senate District 28 primary, which will be tight on both sides of the ballot. Surely the N&R will revisit Jeffrey Brommer’s ‘history with the SEC.’
As it is, Sunday’s stories had some pretty interesting info about candidates hoping to serve in the General Assembly, especially Ralph Johnson, who is taking on Rep. Alma Adams in the District 58 Democratic primary:
Johnson said he pleaded guilty to the crime to dispense with the charge but insists he was not guilty. Someone else, he said, left the cocaine in a truck owned by his employer.
“It wasn’t in my possession,” Johnson said, adding that he regrets pleading guilty.
“Probably what I should have done was fought it,” he said. “But rather than dragging it out, I pleaded guilty to it.”
He said several misdemeanor charges related to marijuana possession were accurate. Johnson said he no longer uses marijuana.
Then there’s Scott Jones, who’s taking on Sheriff BJ Barnes in the Republican primary. Jones says he was prompted to run for sheriff after the “disrespect he experienced” following his arrest on “charges of assault on a public officer and communicating threats in 2009, which are still pending in court.”
