Daily News: Paul’s request to Grayson is not reasonable

Posted: Tuesday, January 26th Filed in: News

By the Daily News
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:59 AM CST

Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson was elected twice by the people of this state to the office he currently holds and part of his job is oversight and certification of elections.

Grayson has done an honest and competent job in his capacity as secretary of state and it is troubling that his chief opponent in the upcoming Republican primary for U.S. Senate, Rand Paul, would send Grayson a letter asking him to recuse himself from overseeing that election.

For Grayson to abide by Paul's request would be a dereliction of his duties as secretary of state.

No matter whether Republican voters support Paul or Grayson, or some other candidate in the upcoming primary election, this could be construed as a personal attack on Grayson.

By sending this letter, Paul is essentially saying that Grayson would possibly interfere or be involved with changing the outcome of the election in the May primary.

Grayson has a proven track record of being nonpartisan in overseeing and certifying elections in this state and has had that record since taking office in 2004.

This letter and request by Paul seems to be little more than an effort to focus attention on Paul's campaign.

Grayson has taken an oath to do his job to the best of his ability and all indications are that he has done that.

The majority of the people of this state elected him to perform the duties of that office; he can't simply quit doing his job because Paul is speculating that he wouldn't do a fair job overseeing the election results.

Grayson shouldn't recuse himself from overseeing the election results of the May primary.

It's his job, after all.