Mary Taylor is a piece of work


staff - Posted on 06 October 2006

Mary Taylor is a piece of work. She gets sued for running a racist push poll. The judge orders her to hand over the all the polling information to Sykes and allow Sykes to do discovery before going back to court.

Yesterday in court, Taylors attorney's agreed that Taylor would not run anymore polls during this election, and consequently Sykes agreed to dismiss the law suit. The Judge retained juristiction over the case incase Taylor renegged.

All seems fair enough, right ? Wrong. The first thing Taylor does is issue a press release

I am pleased that my opponent agreed to dismiss her complaint in Cleveland Federal Court. She previously filed and then dismissed a claim before the Ohio Elections Commission. Sykes' has done the same now in Federal Court because there was no legal substance to back up their press releases and political name-calling.

Here's the court document

Consequently, Redfern sent this out

Lawyers for the Mary Taylor campaign for State Auditor agreed to stop conducting issue polling for the remainder of the campaign. The racially tinged push poll that Mary Taylor

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Wasn't much, but it was prompted by Taylor's bold-faced bullshit spin. To blithely attempt to state the case was withdraw b/c it lacked merit is probably expected from them at this point. Still, the audacity is remarkable.

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