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The documents regarding impropriety during Teresa Kirkham's term in the Property Assessor office are now a matter of public record and appear to paint a picture of a rein of terror upon anybody who posed a threat to Ms Kirkham.

Reading through the documents on this is a surreal window into the office from hell. People in Teresa Kirkham's inner circle could bask in her glow, while people who opposed her were threatened and then attacked with lies and vicious slander. Ultimately brought down by the cover up, it remains to be seen why Kirkham risked everything to protect a porn addicted employee who should have been terminated quietly, for his sake and hers.

When confronted with the video evidence of Moore's porn viewing and his personal acts while on the clock, Kirkham should have simply terminated him as quietly as possible. Instead we have three signed statements that she chose to threaten the people who brought this to her. Among the allegations in their statements:

Kirkham stated she had spoken with DA Russell Johnson and he said that the employees were the criminals and had committed a felony by videoing someone without their knowledge. They would be fired, go to jail, lose their voting privileges, be unable to run for public office, and more if they ever mentioned the videos(there are two of them taken on different dates). Kirkham appears to have never spoken with the DA on this matter. In a letter to current Property Assessor, David Morgan, regarding this, DA Johnson states "I do not talk with Teresa whenever she attempts to call me..." We can watch to see if Kirkham calls the DA a liar as she has her former employees.

Moore was watching porn on another employees computer, apparently so that if it was discovered that employee would get blamed and not him. This was partly responsible for the other workers in Melvin's office getting suspicious. In addition to Moore's not getting any work done, the other employee noticed that his web browser history was erased after Melvin worked late. Finding his work computer being tampered with is what finally drove the employees to set their computer web cameras to record. Almost every computer now comes with a web cam and built in software to be used as a security camera. Most of them can even be set up for motion activation.

Two employees state that Melvin Moore told them he had used their computers to watch his porn for ten years. On his last day at work Moore had closed door meetings with them and made a number of threats, some of them regarding their family.

So what do we have ultimately?

On one hand we have an employee who knowingly misused County property while he was on the clock perhaps for as long as ten years. He used other employees' computers so that if discovered they would be blamed instead of him. When finally brought to the attention of then Property Assessor Kirkham she chose to protect the guilty employee and threatened the innocent ones with prosecutions that were a complete and calculated lie.

On the other hand we have the burning question, "Why did Kirkham risk her reputation and possible lawsuits on a coverup to protect Melvin Moore?" I think the porn scandal is a side issue that ultimately means little.

Common sense says that there are other far more serious improprieties in the Assessor's office under her term that Kirkham is trying to keep from coming to the surface. If so, let's get the truth out and let the disinfectant of daylight and public scrutiny do its work. Let the chips fall where they may and then move forward.