Another City Employee in trouble for investigating Joe the Plumber

[ObamanationYes1]

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081028/NEWS02/810280240

[greguganus]

1. I hope she loses her job. Probably not the first time she's been in someone's files for no reason.

[ObamanationYes1]

2. i agree. Joe the Plumber was easy enough to smack down without

this. The other was actually a county employee although I made it sound like a city employee. Fortunately there is no indication that this woman was an Obama suppporter or snoping on behalf of one. The other was a max donor to Obama. I wish she had not done this.

[emilyg]

3. Agree.

[LiberalHeart]

4. The records were public records. The media person who had her do this could have gotten them.

Doing it the right way would have slowed things down for the reporter and there would have been a fee involved. I would guess this sort of thing (police cooperation with the media) goes on a lot. This incident really doesn't bother me, though it would if the records weren't public records.

[ObamanationYes1]

5. The clerk broke state law and office policy.

Not okay.