Bain buries himself deeper with confession of a non-crime

Don't you love it when Mayor Bain runs to the newspaper to confess a non-crime complete with promises of an internal investigation?

Woot! Small-town drama!

The excitement swirls about the case of a registered sex offender who used a room at the cemetery superintendent's quarters, though there is no law nor policy that prevents it. Kay Hartman, the superintendent, was doing a favor to the mother of this person. “He was down and out, and I took him in as a favor to a friend,” she said in an Advocate article today.

At the top of the original Advocate story were these comments:

"There is nothing that prohibits a sex offender from living in that residence" - Doug Sassen, city law director.

and

"There was no criminal wrongdoing," Bain said.

Then why is the Advocate stirring poop? Does the Advocate actually buy the mayor's motivation as presented in an Advocate quote: "With this person there, there is some question as to whether safety was compromised." Did the Advocate buy that, or is the Advocate stirring poop because it was an easy story to get into print - no digging involved?

Is there a person anywhere on earth who believes the mayor's professed motivation?

Why is Bain "confessing" to this non-crime when there might be a lot more important things that Bain could confess to if he and the Advocate would rummage around a bit? Answer: These might involve wealthier persons than Kay Hartman who, for some as-yet unannounced reason, is one of his favorite targets.

The more this man talks the deeper grows the mystery of how he could possibly have been elected to any public office.

All Diebold has to do is shut up and he will be able to coast to election as Newark's mayor.