William Martin Retires As Delco Solicitor — William Martin, yesterday, Dec. 13, announced his retirement (1:49) as Delaware County, Pa. solicitor effective at the end of the month.
He took some cheap shots at election integrity activist in his farewell speech (1:50.50)
“One thing of which I have been proudest . . . is protecting the right to vote in Delaware County,” he said.
Seriously?
Why did you fight right-to-know requests? Why did you end the return board report?
And passing a law weakening traditional minority influence on the Election Board? You are strongly fighting to keep it. How is that protecting the right to vote?
Why aren’t you allowing specific precinct recounts as allowed by simple reading of the law? Why aren’t you allowing poll watchers to challenged ballots at the Wharf absentee ballot counting center as they would at any precinct?
By the way, the cite from the German philosopher Karl Jaspers was top-flight gaslighting . You think think skeptics and questioners are unreasonable?
Again, why did you fight right-to-know requests AFTER the state Office of Open Records ruled against you?
And are you going to collect a pension? How long did you work for Delco?
William Martin Retires As Delco Solicitor
“Good riddance to bad rubbish”
That’s all Martin ever had – cheap shots. Only talked outside the courtroom from the bully pulpit with a stop watch and a microphone switch. An inarticulate thug with a law degree who relished attacking the meek but ran and quite literally hid from anyone that stood up to him. A total coward. Obviously penned the most venomous and legally reprehensible Court filings in Delaware County over the past three years from behind closed doors. An underhanded sneak. Went to bluster and water in any actual argument – and I speak from personal experience. He respected no one – not the citizens, our laws and courts, or our judges – and was given none accordingly. Most unethical and thinnest skinned Solicitor I have come across in the Dick Tracy villain line up I’ve seen in last three years. My only regret is the County couldn’t find a bigger boob and it will mean more work assuming they find someone who can actually formulate a coherent argument and speak on the merits of a legal case. Otherwise, good riddance to bad trash.