Reprimanding of Slockett a good thing

In the June 4 Gomers section was an item, “Slockett reprimanded” (by Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board), that I think should be a Homer. The egregious behavior of this person (Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett) in a public office elected by fiat in this county where not a single Republican has a realistic chance to run and win for any office is an example of what one can expect when there is no opposition.

Slockett's use of his position and the misuse of a public facility and the abuse of the employees in that office beg for realistic and fitting punishment.

If a person were a murderer and was found guilty of the crime, would that be considered a “Gomer” when a sentence was handed out, because it is and was the punishment and not the crime that was considered? Not that the reprimand that was, in this case, proscribed, and a sentence without any particular penalty of worth that has any substance or sense of punishment associated with it.

Peter Jochimsen

Iowa City