Newspaper: Joe Hoeffel wastes more taxpayer money

From The Pottstown Mercury's editorial page:

THORNS to Montgomery County Commissioner Joseph Hoeffel for pursuing an appeal of a recent court decision that invalidated the county's authority to prohibit employees from political activities. Such policies have already been knocked down by state courts, so an appeal of the county decision furthers the waste of taxpayer money. THORNS as well to Hoeffel's political foe, Commissioner Bruce L. Castor Jr., for saying he would support the appeal because it would make Hoeffel and Commissioners Chairman James Matthews look bad. "I want Hoeffel and Matthews forever to be known as the two commissioners who thought they could do anything they wanted until they got spanked by a state court," Castor said. The ethics policy prohibited about 120 county employees from politicking during working hours — or on their own time — as long as they held their government jobs; however, District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman and Sheriff John P. Durante filed lawsuits challenging the rules and won. Furthermore, Matthews has said the D.A.'s office was included in the ban to get back at former D.A. Castor for trying to include Matthews' friends in county government in the ordinance. We wish these three would confine their fights to the playground and leave taxpayers out of it.