The media has been mostly silent about this dramatic switch by Case. Was there a "backroom deal"?
I have been especially disappointed to see little discussion of the major problem in the Frank Clark regime . . dominance of "politics" over "justice".
Added to the long list of examples of political intrusion into the DA's office is the very slow progress investigating the Paul Clark election "racism" debacle last year . . . plus the very likely resistance by DA Frank Clark to address the current shameful Pigeon-Golisan-Brown-Casey-Hoyt debacle.
Now that Lavallee is a long shot to win, will she at least force public discussion of a very serious "political corruption" problem that Sedita would be expected to ignore?
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregio...ry/448598.html
POLITICS
Case pulls out of DA race, gives his support to Sedita
Updated: 09/26/08 7:20 AM
The race for Erie County district attorney is down to a field of two.
Challenger Ken Case withdrew Thursday and threw his support to the winner of the Democratic Primary, Frank A. Sedita III, a deputy to departing incumbent Frank J. Clark.
Case had finished second in the party’s three-way primary but could have pursued the job on the Working Families Party line. However, he said Thursday that it’s in the best interests of law enforcement and the community “to unite with the man who shares my vision of what the Erie County DA’s office can and should be.”
Diane Lavallee finished third in the primary but has the Republican line for November’s general election.
“I’m disappointed,” she said of Case’s decision. “The question we all need answered is what backroom deal was made for Ken Case to dramatically change his agenda?”