Who is Publius Dogoodus and why is he saying such terrible things about me/(my opponent)?

This may be what Darrel Huffman and Jason McCaffity, nomination candidates for Constable Prct 3, are saying after an online presence who calls himself "Publius Dogoodus" and who has been emailing a smear piece about Huffman for months finally got it placed in the DFW Voter.com.

I believe that Publius is either trying to hurt Jason McCaffity by being so clumsy in his smear, being so unbalanced in his analysis of the evidence, and generally giving the air of a complete,and venal amateur that he hurts the McCaffity campaign by being identified as someone trying to help it, or he's just an utter doofus, actually trying to harm the Huffman campaign.

I began receiving e-mails, a summary of which can be seen here with documentation, about 1 1/2 to 2 months ago.  As long as they were just e-mails I chose to ignore them.  But now that they are out in the public forum I feel like something must be said.

The gist of the long PDF document is that Darrell Huffman lied on his application for deputy constable.  The alleged lies consists of two parts, part one is that he lied about the reason he was terminated from the Crowley Police Department, part two is that he lied about his years of experience.

Alleged lie 1. Darrell Hoffman lied about the reasons he was terminated from the Crowley Police Department. The evidence is this, on his application, in the reason for leaving the Crowley Police Department he wrote "injury".

In the paperwork supplied by the Crowley Police Department, the reason for termination is excessive absences.

This is where Publius' complete lack of balance shows. He chooses to interpret this in the most uncharitable light possible.  Someone who was trying to weigh the evidence in an evenhanded manner might take the high road and suppose that Huffman's absences just might have been caused by his injury.  But no, Publius went straight for the jugular and accuses the  candidate of LYING!! Not only lying, but lying with the darkest possible motives. This is such a transparent, easy to see attempt at finding something, anything to slam the candidate with that it makes me think that Publius is trying to hurt the McCaffity campaign.

Alleged lie 2. Huffman lied about his years of experience. Publius, I assume, says he only had 3 years experience at that time.

The documentation records in the PDF file are conveniently, and suspiciously empty of dates so it's not possible to check the accuracy of this statement.

This brings up a side issue. Publius, in writing on the documentation, has tampered with the evidence. It appears to be an amateurish blunder on the surface but how are we to know that he hasn't altered it in some other way? Another reason to discount his communications entirely.


 Back to allegation 2.  The requirement is five years of experience.  You can conclude that he doesn't have five years of experience only if you don't count the 2 1/2 years he spent as a reserve officer. The screen shot of the TCLEOSE records below show that.

 Reserve officers have the same duties and responsibilities as regular officers. A reserve officer, most of the time,  doesn't get paid, or get health benefits but the officer is required to stay armed and perform police work when it's needed.  Why doesn't this time count?  I think it does and this is the reason Huffman got the job.  Publius has based his allegation on the slim reed of assuming that Reserve time means no time.

From start to finish, this an attempt to construct a mountain of indignation out of a molehill of sparse facts and innuendo, or to give that impression. In any case this person's communications doesn't deserve any consideration, at all, when choosing a nominee.    Publius Dogoodus is the most inappropriate moniker ever taken by someone who sets out to do what this person has tried to do. He should have called himself Propagandus Biglieus.

Note: This is my take on this subject.  If anyone would like to point out mistakes in logic, reason, or facts, please do so. I believe that the beginning of wisdom starts with the acknowledgement of one's own ignorance. Joel Downs