JJ owes an apology to Madison County Circuit Clerk Anita Wray. Yours truly wrongly criticized Mrs. Wray on election night back on June 5:
Wonderful. The Madison County website no longer posts election returns as the votes are counted on election night. Good job.There is just one problem. It wasn't true and knucklehead here was wrongly navigating the Madison County website. Want to guess where the link for the election results was? At the top of the home page. Yup, JJ dropped the ball. To make matters worse, that cheap shot of mine set off a skirmish in the comments section. It is normal for there to be friction after a regime change between different factions in any elected office. In this case, supporters and critics of the current circuit clerk decided to re-fight the 2015 election. Re-fighting a civil war is something Southerners are good at, you understand and those comments were no exception. This correspondent removed the post this morning.
Mrs. Wray has never been anything but gracious and professional to this correspondent. She and her staff didn't deserve that comment. Mistakes are going to be made and when that happens, JJ is going to own up to them at the top of the page. These posts aren't fun to write but the Madison County Circuit Clerk and her employees deserve an apology. Mrs Wray, JJ is sorry.