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Home / Articles / Editorial / Letters / Gwinn should just be the start of the local Democratic Party housecleaning
Tuesday, January 19,2010
Gwinn should just be the start of the local Democratic Party housecleaning
To the Editor:
Good riddance. What else can be said about Susan Gwinn's resignation (The NEWS, Jan. 14)?
Yet this moment should not pass without noting that Gwinn's resignation should only be the beginning of cleaning up the corruption in Athens County. What of the many Athens County Democrats who refused, even to the very day of Gwinn's resignation, to publicly call for her to step down? Voters narrowly rejected an opportunity to replace one such Gwinn loyalist in the Athens City Council race last year, which pitted Republican Randy Morris against incumbent Democrat Christine Fahl in the Fourth Ward. Fahl refused to call for Gwinn's resignation, going so far as to say that her campaign needed Gwinn to stay on the job. Yet even after Fahl defeated Morris under the shadow of the alleged "Cash for Votes" brouhaha, Fahl still would not call for Gwinn's resignation. Why should voters return Christine Fahl and her fellow Gwinn loyalists to their positions in the Athens County government in future elections?
Certainly the cleanup has begun with Gwinn, but Susan Gwinn has been mucking up the Athens County government and spreading the corruption around for a long time. She may have been the first Athens County Democrat to go down in the flames of scandal, but does anyone really believe she will be the last? Many of her fellow Democrats stood by her from indictment to conviction and beyond. Every single Athens County voter should use his head and make Gwinn's Democrats stand by her in search of a new job.
Nate Nelson
Riverpark Towers
Athens
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