Just fourteen minutes ago, Tom Salmon announced on his Facebook page that he is not going to run for re-election as Auditor of Accounts.
His statement:
I have enjoyed my service to the state but will not seek re-election as state auditor. It has been an honor to serve with such a talented team at the SAO (State Auditor’s Office). Thank you all.
As you know, Salmon has gotten a lot of flack in these pages for various things, including turning his coat to run as a Republican, his support for Republicans, and his farcical talk about running for Senate against Bernie Sanders.
There’s no word on whether he’s running, but he shows every sign that he will. There’s also nothing on his official web page.
Funny that he has so little interest in doing the job of Auditor, after running for election, getting Democrats across the state to volunteer to help with his recount, running again, and then taking office.
It doesn’t say much for his constancy of purpose, does it?
Auditor’s a job?
Did anyone tell him about that part?
He’s a complete waste of everyone’s time and ballot paper.
Yet, vaguely Palinesque in it’s Salmonosity
What he supposedly enjoys about the job.
And if he enjoys it so much, why stop?
Leave the post now and we’ll fill it with that Hoffer guy. He’s seems to have more sense in his little finger then this Salmon freak anyhow.
Not to mention his incompetence and his pomposity.
Truly a guy who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
NanuqFC
In a Time of Universal Deceit, TELLING the TRUTH Is a Revolutionary Act. ~ George Orwell
Sanders–62%
Champ—-14%
WDH3—–13%
Larry,
Daryl $
Daryl—-05%
Salmon—02%
Your friends
whom you’ve
wrote in-02%
ballots
stolen for
collectors’
items—-02%
Salmon demands recount.
Surely there’s something in the DSM IV that describes this behavior.
Perhaps he should just resign, and we could have Doug Hoffer, who would be a genuine public servant, take over.
Stepped into the ballot booth last November and literally said to myself “he deserves another chance to try this job”.
I will gladly take any name-calling for that decision.
Gotta say, young Tom is really milking the limelight for everything he can get leading up to … March 4 is it?
Leads me to believe he’ll announce, get a bunch more publicity (and possibly do more with it than Dan Freilich did against Senator Leahy), milk that for all it’s worth, then withdraw before a primary (next year).
NanuqFC
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. ~ Bertrand Russell