The Texas House today honored former Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet. It did so with nary a peep about Sherbet's forced resignation, which prompted last week's racially charged shouting match between Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and tea party adherents.
A bipartisan cast of Dallas County House members authored a resolution praising Sherbet (right/DMN photo). It was sponsored by freshman Rep. Cindy Burkett, R-Mesquite.
It extols Sherbet's "exemplary commitment to public service" and says he "has devoted three decades to serving the residents of Dallas County, and in so doing, ... has built a
reputation for impartiality, professionalism, and effectiveness."
In her remarks to the House, Burkett said that when she was an election judge, she saw firsthand what a good job Sherbet's department did in training election officials. When she served on the State Republican Executive Committee, she said, "I would often find myself bragging on our Dallas County elections department. I can't tell you how many times I heard election workers from those communities say, 'I wish we did it that way in our county.'"
Sherbet resigned after County Judge Clay Jenkins, a Democrat, called a meeting of the obscure County Election Commission. The panel's role is to hire or fire the elections administrator, and Sherbet saw it as a sign that he was in trouble. He says he got confirmation that Jenkins wanted him out from longtime Commissioner John Wiley Price, another Democrat. A push by the two Republicans on commissioners court to hire Sherbet to a two year consulting contract was rejected by a vote of 3-2, with all three Democrats voting against.
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/02/house-honors-bruce-sherbet.html
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