KEN McWILLIAMS CHARGES THAT DEBBIE STUCKI WAS LATE ON 163 WORKDAYS IN 2019

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Debbie Stucki Opponent States that She Has An Ethical And Moral Obligation To Earn The Salary She’s Paid
On October 20, 2012, a letter written by Republican Party Chairman Wayne Parke titled, “County Treasurer Rick Davis’ Work Record Is Deplorable, appeared in the City-County Observer.  Using eight-five pages of records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request, Mr. Parke summarized the days that then Treasurer Davis “arrived late or didn’t show up for work at all.”
Utilizing those records to indicate that Mr. Davis arrived in the office late all but one day in a 12 month period and missed work completely “about 18% of the time.”  A link to Mr. Parke’s complete letter is provided below.
https://city-countyobserver.com/republican-chairman-wayne-parke-calls-treasurer-rick-daviss-work-record-as-deplorable/
Using Mr. Parke’s standard, I believe it would only be appropriate to use the same standard for the incumbent County Recorder, Debbie Stucki.  In 2012, the GOP Chair wrote that Mr. Davis as a “County Government Official who gets paid $63,088.00 a year.  In addition to his salary he receives 14 paid holidays, major medical, dental & vision benefits…”  The salary for the County Recorder in 2019 was $71,650.00 and includes most if not all of the benefits mentioned by Mr. Parke in his article.
With the information our campaign received through a Freedom of Information request, we found that in 2019, Ms. Stucki was routinely two hours late on 163 workdays. If you add that to the days where there is no record of her arriving in the building at all, she was present less than 50 percent of the time.  In 2012, Mr. Parke wrote in his article, “The taxpayers of Vanderburgh County are being cheated.”  If that was the case in 2012, it is no less true now.  It leads one to wonder if the lack of attention to the office resulted in the 379 misplaced ballots in the 2015 election when Ms. Stucki was County Clerk.
As a Marine Non-Commissioned Officer in the 1980’s, I was taught that a leader must set the example.  An elected county official has an ethical and moral obligation to show up and earn the salary they are paid. Few Evansville City or Vanderburgh County employees earn what Ms. Stucki does and would be unemployed if they were absent or late as much. We should expect nothing less from any of our County Officeholders.
When I filed for County Recorder on February 7th of this year, I pledged to be “the first one in the office and the last one out each workday.”  I will also be a visible and accessible office holder ready and able to meet Mr. Parke’s standard of what an officeholder should be.
Respectfully Submitted,
Ken McWilliams
Democratic Candidate for Vanderburgh County Recorder

 

FOOTNOTE:  THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED BY THE CITY-COUNTY OBSERVER WITHOUT OPINION, BIAS, OR EDITING.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. I await the rebuttal to these accusations from Ms Stucki and if unfounded or untrue, I suspect Mr. McWilliam’s ship is sunk. However if true, I assure you this registered R will be voting for this man…

    • Rick Davis was a friend and fellow public servant. He left us far too soon and nothing I wrote denigrated him. My point was simply that any standard he was held to should be equally applied to any full-time elected county official. If you read the article carefully you would understand those were not my words, they were Mr. Parke’s.

  3. While I respect your military service, you have aligned yourself with the political party in favor of de-funding our law enforcement, the party that promotes abortion of defenseless humans (over 60% who are black Americas), the party wanting to allow illegal immigrants to flood our border and further devastate our medical system, and the party which is in favor of disregarding our Constitution that you took an oath to defend.

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