Outta Town Ed

Ed Emmett heads to India rather than participate in a statewide hurricane preparedness drill. Here's how one GOP partisan defends the move:

Do people really think a governmental body cannot function if the leader is not present? Do people really think that if a hurricane was forecasted for a potential Gulf Coast landfall, Judge Emmett wouldn't have cancelled his trip?

A rather bold set of questions to ask about hurricanes in this post-Katrina era. Then again, I guess there's a certain level where she may have a point ... it could very well be that county government would be more efficient and effective if Ed Emmett were just out of the way. I guess my question would be along the lines of "So why do you plan on voting for someone who's so utterly unnecessary?"

Oh, and remind me what the standard critique of Mayor Lee Brown was back in the day? What was his nickname? Hmmm ... maybe it's something about the (R) next to Emmett's name that wards off any hint of criticism in his case.