First, Jackie, your math is wrong. The flyer had three names (remember it is as easy as 1-2-3) on it not six as you state. The flyer had an authority line of Maryland GOP, which in itself is interesting given the fact that the party has struggled financially for many years and has even had troubles paying its rent. So why would the state party pay for a significant mailing event? They certainly would not have paid for the mailer if they knew one person (Tari Moore) was an independent.

In any event it was REPUBLICAN MONEY not unaffiliated money! The money was “pass through money” donated from another campaign, a REPUBLICAN campaign. The local Republican Central Committee and its Chairman, with his own money, spent time and money to help elect REPUBLICANS, including Ms. Moore, but what does she do after being elected, she turns her back on the very people that helped her get in, in a selfish move, so that she can pick her own successor.

From the results of the election she needed all the help she could get, since the election numbers were one of the closest races in that election cycle. Tari, for the record, you received “in-kind support” from the State GOP and that is the fact and you cannot change it. You used the Republican Party and its name to get elected then turned your back on it.

If you want forgiveness, please ask for it, starting by refunding your fair share to the party and by printing an apology to local Republicans in the county newspapers of record, but I doubt you will do it because you feel”the ends justify the means”. I will not hold my breath, even though you would hope for that.

You keep talking about “moving the county forward”, what exactly have you done? Have you told your “property rights” friends that all Tier III and Tier IV property (according to your map) in the county cannot be approved for subdivision by the local board of health and that duty has now been transferred to the MD MDE because you submitted a deficient Tier map? Did you tell your property rights friends that you testified for SB236 (with amendments), instead of standing up firmly against it. Yes, I saw the videotape, with you in your lovely green suit jacket. I have not heard the Director of the Board of Health report that this duty was removed from her by the MDE in her monthly reports to the council. Why not?

Tari, as far as moving forward in a positive direction, that is becoming increasing difficult, if not impossible, when one’s word cannot be trusted. I do not trust you to keep your word since it has been broken several times. For example, when you ran for office you claimed you ran a business, ‘Moore Strategies”, yet no evidence of that can be found in public records, including the campaign accounts of local officials you claimed to have helped. So did they file a false report or did you not in fact have a business? Where the proper taxes paid to Maryland and Cecil County?

You claimed to be a fiscal conservative when running, yet you and your partners on the council increased county debt by 50%, over $70 million dollars piled on the backs of taxpayers and rate payers. While you are at it please explain to the voters why you accepted $4000 dollars in campaign funds from a Harford County developer, AFTER THE ELECTION?? Then miraculously the council delayed implementation of higher sewer hook-up fees. These are all issues that severely erode trust, in my book and that of many citizens.