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One month from crucial election, GOP county commissioners fire Democrat deputy director of elections
They claim the firing was "not political" but the Westmoreland County Republican commissioners have a history of going after and firing their political enemies. They were successfully sued by two former high ranking Democrats within county government several years ago.
Westmoreland commissioners fired the deputy director of the county’s elections bureau — a move that continues upheaval in the department just a month before the Nov. 3 election.
County officials on Thursday would not comment on the reasons for the dismissal of Scott Sistek, who served for more than a month this summer as the election bureau’s interim director and before being named in August as its permanent second-in-command.
“There is no politics involved in this whatsoever,” said Commissioner Doug Chew. “It has nothing to do with any election issues.”
Commissioners named Sistek interim director following the late July resignation of the department’s director. That was two months after he was transferred to the elections office. In August, he was appointed deputy director with a $39,400 annual salary upon the hiring of JoAnn Sebastiani as the new office head.
County officials on Thursday would not comment on the reasons for the dismissal of Scott Sistek, who served for more than a month this summer as the election bureau’s interim director and before being named in August as its permanent second-in-command.
“There is no politics involved in this whatsoever,” said Commissioner Doug Chew. “It has nothing to do with any election issues.”
Commissioners named Sistek interim director following the late July resignation of the department’s director. That was two months after he was transferred to the elections office. In August, he was appointed deputy director with a $39,400 annual salary upon the hiring of JoAnn Sebastiani as the new office head.
https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/county-fires-deputy-director-of-elections-bureau-with-nov-3-election-looming/
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Westmoreland has outsourced it to a company in Ohio.
They are delivering info/ picking up ballots by driving from here to Ohio and back. Maybe by horse and buggy?
Sure.
“There is no politics involved in this whatsoever,” said Commissioner Doug Chew. “It has nothing to do with any election issues.”