A Taste Most "Fowl" -- Boss Godfrey and Reid Better Not Count Their Chickens -- Yet

We loved this Ace Reporter Schwebke masterpiece in this morning's Standard-Examiner:

Greiner remains on ballot; campaign plans on hold.

Poor ole' Scott Schwebke thought he'd delivered The Godfrey Propaganda Organ coup de gras upon Republican Senate 18 candidate Greiner with this crafty article. So did many of our gentle readers, judging from comments in the lower sections.

Sorry Scott... no such luck.

We've spent much of the last two days talkin' to a few of our snitches - and some legal fellers in SLC and Washington, D.C. And guess what?

Our conclusion is that Jon Greiner is by no means outta the Senate 18 hunt -- at least not because of the Hatch Act.. Pass it on.

Here's the kicker:

Board upholds Perkins ruling
Lawmaker prevails again in Hatch Act complaint

The Perkins case involves a Deputy Police chief in Henderson Nevada, who ran for the Nevada legislature in 2001 and ultimately became the Nevada State Assembly Speaker.

Somewhere along the line, somebody put in a Hatch Act Complaint.

The facts in the Perkins case are almost completely analogous to the instant Greiner case.

After two+ years of battling with federal administrative agency beaureaucrats, Perkins remains the Nevada Assemby Speaker. Federal Counsel lost TWO straight legal rounds in this extended battle (trial & appeal) before they The Office of Special Counsel finally threw in the towel.

No. Bureaucratic federal attorneys in Washington are neither omiciscient nor omnipotent. The federal Office of Special Persecutors got their ass handed to them in the Perkins Matter, before they finally gave up.

Yes. The Perkins case sets precedent.

Legal precedent of course doesn't mean Greiner will win the Senate 18 race, even if he's later vindicated in the courts. His campaign has been perhaps irretrievably corrupted by four straight Standard-Examiner stories, intended by the Godfrey forces to allow the most corrupt figure in the history of the universe (Reid) to glide into the State Senate by virtual default.

Even more sad is the fact that Boss Godfrey's pet shill, Stuart Reid, will possibly prevail in the November election, due to the barrage of misinformation the Standard-Examiner has disseminated about Republican Greiner's "Hatch Act Problems" during the last week.

As we said before, the evil Stuart Reid is an alternative far too horrible to contemplate.

We'll make no bones about it. Chief's Greiner's Republican political philosophy differs somewhat from ours. Of course we haven't really talked to the chief about this, and are relying in this assumption upon -- you guessed it -- The Standard-Examiner. (Maybe Chief Greiner will give us a ring one of these days and buy us lunch. We'd feel more self-assured about this if we got it from the horse's mouth.)

We do NOT believe that Chief Greiner has gotten a "fair shake" in this race.

We'll see what happens down the road, when it comes time to the counting of the chickens.

Regardless of the outcome, this race has left a very "fowl" taste in our mouth.