According to a recent post on The Bud Angst Report, freshly minted Schuylkill County Controller Melinda Kantner was reprimanded at a commissioner’s workshop meeting last week for being “out of order”. Kantner was informed by County Solicitor Eric Mika and Board Chair Mantura Gallagher, both fellow Democrats, that she was to be seen and not heard during workshops.
That’s news to the Clarke Report, considering that former County Controller, Gary Hornberger, was given free reign to discharge his duties during his entire tenure, usually to the chagrin of his fellow Republican commissioners who held the majority at the time. Maybe times really have “changed” under the Democratic leadership of Gallagher and Commissioner Francis McAndrew. The question is : Is effectively muzzling the county’s fiscal watchdog the type of change that the people of Schuylkill County bargained for?
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March 17, 2008 at 8:51 am
[...] over two months, she has been successful in stirring the pot between the row offices. As reported here, she was effectively muzzled by County Solicitor Eric Mika last month at a Commissioner’s [...]
December 30, 2008 at 11:51 pm
[...] normally calm Tim Holden red-faced with anger at a democratic committee meeting and being told to shut the hell up by Chairwoman Gallagher at a Commissioners’ meeting to being sued in court by county [...]
January 26, 2009 at 12:24 pm
[...] other county officers over the past year. Back in March, Gallagher and County Solicitor Eric Mika muzzled Kantner at county workshop meetings, telling her that she was to be seen and not heard. Then, Kantner [...]