Anonymous letter sent to Grant

 
Never one to shy away from the use of the race card,  Betty "the Professor" Grant has contacted the local media with an anonymous letter sent to her signed "KKK"...

Monday night, Grant emailed us saying today at her office, she opened a letter that was postmarked October 3rd, threatening her and her family harm, if she didn't give up trying to win the election.
Grant says she will forward the letter, which she says was signed "the KKK,"to local authorities and the FBI.  She says she has no idea who sent it.

Local police, the F.B.I., and Galleria Mall Security Guards have all been notified in hopes of finding the cowardly letter writer. 

F.B.I. criminal profiler Tom White says the suspect is most likely a black or white man or woman between the ages of 20 and 78. He or she is probably a loner, but may also be gregarious and outgoing. White thinks the letter writer may have experience in the military or law enforcement. For unknown reasons, White also believes the letter writer might be a fan of the TV show Alf. They've released this composite sketch of what the letter writer may look like and ask anyone with information to contact former channel 7 weather man Tom Jolls...







Grant Says She Received Threatening Letter Signed "KKK" | wgrz.com

Duck! Here comes the race card

Nobody wanted to see Tim "Hortons" Kennedy lose more than I did. However, the absentee votes have been counted and his slim lead has grown a little wider. But, not so fast. When all else fails, there's always the race card! Supporters of Betty Jean "the Professor" Grant will be holding a rally outside the Board of Elections tomorrow to protest a white candidate receiving more votes than a black candidate. From the Buffalo News...

Grant also was bothered by the number of people who she said wanted to vote in the primary but weren't made aware they needed to be a registered Democrat.

Grant said she would attend a rally called for 5 p.m. Wednesday outside the Board of Elections, 134 W. Eagle St. A flyer being distributed said the balloting was "an attempt to steal yet another election by voter suppression and disenfranchisement."

Grant supporters didn't know they had to be registered Democrats to vote in a Democratic primary? Seriously? Whose job is it to inform them of that? I suppose it's now the government's job to do that also. A better question: Whose buried in Grant's tomb? There is no voter suppression at play here.

Efforts to turn this election into a racial matter are shameful, albeit predictable. The election's over. The numbers have been counted. While half of South Buffalo and Cheektowaga can't stand Tim Kennedy and one can argue that the election was bought and paid for by New York City interests, you can't say a racial conspiracy was at play here. 

When Mickey "Study King" Kearns lost to Mayor Brown a few years back, nobody cried racism. When Tim Whalen's seat was removed from the County Legislature, South Buffalo residents didn't view is as an opportunity to protest. (In fact, a small parade was held to celebrate the event.) We were just thankful to have one less "representative" living off a public paycheck.

People are sick of the race card being played, whenever something doesn't go one's way. Give me a break. 

 

Rewarding incompetence

Karla Thomas promises to bring the same level of incompetence to county government that she brought to city government.


It didn't take long for disgraced city administrator Karla Thomas to latch on to another do-nothing government job. Erie County Legislator Betty Jean Grant, who has a 3rd grader's command of the English language, has hired the incompetent Thomas as her new Legislative Assistant...

Under Thomas' watch, the city paid out more than $800,000 in health premiums for former city employees who had died.

After a lengthy hearing, an independent arbitrator ruled that Thomas' firing was justified because she had "failed to comply with a mayoral directive requiring immediate action."

More proof that the entire Erie County Legislature should be abolished. As I've said many times before, they do nothing that the all-volunteer Board of Managers once accomplished for free. Just another example of an unnecessary layer of government.
Top City Employee Fired By Mayor Has A New Government Job | wgrz.com
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