Style picks up missing petition sheets story
An innocuous comment by sitting School Board representative Carole A.O. Wolf in a discussion at North Richmond News triggered stories in Style Weekly and the Times-Dispatch this week. Here’s Style’s take on the comment: [Wolf] all but accuses fellow board members Lisa Dawson and Chandra Smith of stealing the election petition sheets that might have allowed […]
An innocuous comment by sitting School Board representative Carole A.O. Wolf in a discussion at North Richmond News triggered stories in Style Weekly and the Times-Dispatch this week. Here’s Style’s take on the comment:
[Wolf] all but accuses fellow board members Lisa Dawson and Chandra Smith of stealing the election petition sheets that might have allowed her to qualify to run for re-election to her 3rd District seat in November.
In an Aug. 8 post, Wolf writes on the blog Northrichmondnews.com that “either the representative from the 2nd District [Dawson] and/or/both the representative from the 6th District [Chandra Smith], had both opportunity and motive to remove two full sheets [50 signatures] of signatures from the papers that I left unguarded during a Student Discipline Committee meeting.”
“I do not know for a stone-certain fact that either [or both] of my colleagues actually ate or otherwise removed the sheets,” Wolf writes. “I do know that they each had opportunity and motive and that the signatures somehow disappeared from that room that afternoon.”
The lack of those sheets, and Wolf’s subsequent 11th-hour failure to secure enough of the required valid registered voter signatures on her petition sheets, resulted in her opponent, Norma H. Murdoch-Kitt, running unopposed in the 3rd District.
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