DD has the story over at Blue Delaware, and I gotta admit, I didn’t see this coming. He wanted to go somewhere (Deputy Director For Sussex County Department of Elections). Ruth Briggs King wanted him to go somewhere. But it was kiboshed by:
Only the GOP members of the Board of Elections could vote on his hire, since the deputy position was the Deputy Director position reserved for Republicans (there is a Democratic Deputy Director position as well). And apparently the older Republican members of the Board object to Pettyjohn’s more outlandish and Trumpist tendencies and did not like the message that hiring him for the Department job would send.
Too Trumpy for Suxco? I don’t know about that. But he didn’t get the job and, as DD pointed out, the job has been reposted.
So, kids, let me ask you this?: Did Pettyjohn even bother to reach out to the R members of the Board? I mean, he’s probably had well over 100 gubernatorial nominees come to his office to grovel for his support. He knows how the game is played. He clearly wanted out of Leg Hall. Did he not exercise even the minimal effort to make sure that this was a done deal? Maybe that’s why he didn’t get the job as he at least would have been required to do at least some work at Elections.
The bigger question: Pettyjohn made his move to leave Leg Hall for questionably greener pastures. Does he serve out his term? Does he run for reelection, in which case I fully expect Ruth Briggs King to primary him and to defeat him? Or does he slink out of Dover with his man-tail barely intact? (He’ll always have his manly guns for compensation.) I wonder how his constituents feel about this.
Me? I love stories like this. Should I decide to resurrect ‘The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous’ post at year’s end, this will likely be on the ‘Ridiculous’ list. It’s been a great year for ‘Ridiculous’.