With all the coverage from intrepid reporter Josh in the local rag and their website on Republicans getting raises, you'd think that the few Democrats who work for the county are all in the breadlines. Not true. In addition to Judge Gattermeyer's hires we can take a look at the new sheriff in charge of the Butler County Democratic Party: John M. Holcomb.According to the Enquirer, John M. Holcomb the Younger received a raise in 1999. A 20% raise. That raise made him the third highest paid prosecutor working for Butler County. The paper says that most prosecutors got 3% raises, but not John M. Holcomb. He got a 20% raise. How'd that happen? Might it be that his daddy the judge helped out? If he was a Republican that question might have been asked.
Of course, this won't matter because history and context has nothing to do with a Republican "scandal."
Let me spell this out just in case there are people still out there that doesn't get where I'm going here... Am I upset that Holcomb got a raise back in the day? Nope. And it is for the exact same reason that I am not too jazzed about Chuck Furmon's ex-son-in-law getting a raise or the Board of Elections hiring the Shelton's ex-daughter-in-law or Nancy Nix hiring somebody she knows was qualified and available.
So why bring it up at all? Well, Josh and his buddies in the Democratic Party keep playing these stories off as if their team has never engaged in the exact same behaviors. It wasn't a crime or a scandal then; and it shouldn't be now either.
