Hartland Job Shuffle Looks Fishy

The way the Hartland Township trustees have filled the clerk's job without even taking applications looks pretty fishy.

Township Clerk Ann Ulrich resigned from the post after a dispute over a cemetery plot in which her mother was buried, although the plot actually belonged to someone else. A recall was in the works against her, so Ulrich threw in the towel.

So on the same day that Ulrich resigned, the board of trustees gave her job to fellow trustee Larry Hopkins. No temporary appointment, no applications from any one interested, just a $40,000 a year job handed over to one of their buddies on the board.

Democracy at work, at the hands of Republicans in Livingston County.