SCOTUS orders thrice-divorced KY county clerk to issue marriage license

[Benton]

(09-03-2015, 11:52 AM)samhain Wrote: Even better.  When the taxpayers are made to foot the bill for the legal process in addition to the salary of the special clerk (made necessary by the actions of Davis), then the the finger can be pointed directly at her, as she continues to remain in her position and enjoy her current standard of living.  Let her go down as a burden on the tax payer, not a hero to the cause.  

She knows full well that she's going to get the hammer at some point when an end comes to this charade.  She's banking on it.  It's guaranteed that she'll be a hero to the right and remain in the public eye for awhile.  I say don't give it to her.  Let her go down as a crybaby who wouldn't do her job.  Let her be an example of a special interest that becomes a drain on the public coffers.

To boot, the public will grow weary of hearing about her constantly as the legal process slogs along.  Her 15 minutes will be long passed when a conclusion is reached and her calculated campaign for martyrdom will have failed.

That's the frustrating thing to me about a lot of these appeals or public official lawsuits. Taxpayers end up being the ones to suffer.

It's like in the other thread where a Georgia county was $200,000 or something for violating election laws. Who pays that? Taxpayers.

On the one hand it's fitting, as the taxpayers are the ones who voted the person into office. We're a representative democracy. If you don't vote just because there isn't anyone to vote for, you are getting the representation your lazy butt asks for. On the other hand, those who are trying to make their communities a better place still have to suffer along with the idiots.