Sharpe's Dull Edge

As I predicted last week, Mercedes-driving Attorney Robert Sharpe was knocked out of Lehigh County Court in a matter of minutes on Friday. Sharpe had challenged District Attorney Jim Martin's nomination petition, but he's a Democrat and Martin's a Republican. If you want to challenge a party nomination, you have to be a member of that party. Any half decent lawyer could figure that out in about five minutes by looking at something called a law book. Next time, Sharpe might want to think about that instead of writing news releases to hand out in court.

Instead of a brief, Not-so-Sharpe handed out a news release, trying to cover his tracks. According to that, he knew the law all along and was simply objecting to the "political mischief" of using a straw party to challenge a nomination petition.

I see. But gee, wouldn't he himself be a strw party for whomever paid him to file this challenge?

The truth is that Not-so just did not know the law, and taxpayer money was wasted to educate him. This became apparent to people in Lehigh County's crowded voter registration office last week, when they had an unusual customer - the District Attorney. He was there, apparently, to request a copy of Sharpe's voter registration.

"I'd have to be pretty foolish to file this action if I were not a registered Democrat."

That smug remark came from Not-so-Sharpe, who was in the office as well. He apparently thought he had to be a Democrat ... until he read this blog on Thursday.