Escambia County Clerk of Courts Pam Childers has been insisting that Supervisor of Elections Robert Bender is not an incumbent.
Why this matters to Childers: Bruce Childers, her hubby, is trying to displace Gov. Ron DeSantis’ appointee and win the supervisor position in a universal primary on August 20.
- If Bruce wins, the Childers family will have more power than former commissioner chair W.D. Childers had in the early 2000s before he was indicted and removed from office.
Dig Deeper: Merriam-Webster defines incumbent as:
1. the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice
2. one that occupies a particular position or place
Conclusion:
I’m sorry, Pam. Robert Bender holds the office and occupies the position. Therefore, Robert Bender is the incumbent Supervisor of Elections.
#notreadbypamchilders
Reminder: Vulnerability Assessment Project Public Meeting June 20
Escambia County, in partnership with Jacobs Engineering, invites residents to the first public meeting for the Vulnerability Assessment Project, an initiative aimed at safeguarding the unincorporated areas of Escambia County against environmental risks, including rising sea levels and flooding.
The meeting will take place Thursday, June 20, at 5:30 p.m. at the Marie K. Young Wedgewood Community Center, 6405 Wagner Road. Anyone interested in learning more about future flood mitigation and the possible impacts of flood events on the community is invited to attend.
During the meeting, attendees will hear from county staff and representatives from Jacobs Engineering on the initial stages of data collection, methodologies, evaluation criteria, and analysis techniques. Staff will also discuss potential vulnerabilities and impacts on communities. Attendees will have the chance to provide input on the initial stages of the Vulnerability Assessment Project and participate in a question-and-answer session at the end of the meeting.
For more information, contact Dr. Ryan Kirby at resiliency@myescambia.com.
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Of course Supervisor of Elections Bender is the incumbent, he was appointed to fill a vacancy. I would remind everyone that, we have three universal primaries where all voters may participate. ECUA District 1 (all candidates are Republicans), my race in ECUA District 3 (where all candidates are Democrats) and the universal primary contest for Supervisor of Elections (all candidates are Republicans).
I am focused on my own election, for those wondering why I didn’t do any Juneteenth events yesterday, I chose not to politicize such a solemn holiday, just as I will not politick at something that is not supposed to be politicized in Grown Folks Night. Everyone celebrated and honored as they chose to yesterday. I honor the holiday but I thought it was best I not make a spectacle, as when it comes from a political candidate, people will treat it as politics anyway, and perhaps not as sincere.
I want everyone to be clear I honor the holiday, but I thought it would have sounded kind of fake from me, so again, I honor Juneteenth and celebrate it but I chose, to be basically, how I approach being respectful towards it, where my schedule was yesterday, and where it was primarily some government workers that got yesterday off while a large number of people still had to come into work to put food on the table, and I chose to do my work yesterday as I had to.
My blood ran cold watching the TDC meeting that took place this past Tuesday.
Perhaps now more people will see (1) the vindictive nature of the Clerk’s cherry picking; and (2) the real, material effects on our community–our entire community–having a person in her position that is clearly becoming more and more intoxicated with power every day.
It was all fun and games when she was going after commissioner retirement, all the while refusing to pursue an AG opinion jointly with the BCC on whether it was legal, so she could instead push it into court to get more bang for her buck with her populist propaganda.
Now she’s going after Mardi Gras? Mardi Gras??
Perhaps more people will take this seriously now that she’s coming to bust up their party.
And what did the African American Heritage Society do to her? Pensacola Sports is a no-brainer; she’s most likely going after the basketball tournament to get at Commissioner May.
People need to stop and take a think about what it really means to have an officer of the court hell-bent on sewing chaos running her husband for Supervisor of Elections. *Any* wife and husband team would be an abstract danger to the unbiased checks and balances on the divisions between such offices.
It would be even worse if a Clerk who is once again targeting payments that she herself has been cutting checks for for *years*–why on earth isn’t she being made to address her own culpability on that?–is suddenly illegal. Imagine if that sort of arbitrary application of her powers as Clerk were suddenly having outsized influence on our Supervisor of Elections. This community needs to wake up to how pressing that threat really is, in my opinion.
Hopefully people who recognize this will meet this challenge to the fair, obective function of both offices with an outpouring of support for Robert Bender. If this community elects Bruce Childers, people will certainly get every bit they they’ve asked for. And more.