Spelling Problems

According to the Capital, John Leopold wants people to know he can spell "Anne Arundel":

Rumors swirl that County Executive John R. Leopold, concerned for his image, is quietly trying to set the record straight.

He wants it known that it wasn't his fault the pamphlets at a reception last week misspelled Anne Arundel County.

More than 50 people, including a who's-who of Anne Arundel, gathered in the lobby of the Arundel

Center last week to celebrate the portrait hanging of former county executive Janet S. Owens. The photographer who had done the work handed out miniature portraits with the caption: "Janet S Owens, Anne Arundle Co. Executive, 1998-2006."

Oops.

So, in case no one noticed, photographer Stan Stearns, handed out the pamphlets.

And the pamphlets came in envelopes with Mr. Stearns' name on them.

For his part, Mr. Stearns is not too worried.

"So I misspelled Arundel. What's the big deal? The portrait hanging on the wall has it right," he said.

But Mr. Leopold worries enough about his reputation, so it is important to get on the record that he knows how to spell Anne Arundel.

Other than the fact that Leopold would be the kind to put image over everything else why should we be surprised by this? It's because nobody seemed to notice during the campaign that his campaign literature and campaign television commercials had multiple spelling errors. Usually misspelling such hard to define words as "Treasurer" and "Executive."

If Leopold spent less time worrying about his image, and more time not trying to raise taxes, we'd actually get somewhere...