McSorley says Larkin is ducking OPRA requests

Republican Mercer County Sheriff candidate Jim McSorley said that three OPRA requests he filed last week for information about the sheriff’s office have either been ignored or have been answered with incomplete information.

McSorley, a retired state police captain who’s challenging incumbent Democrat Kevin Larkin, said that he was informed that the office has not kept a table of organization for the last three years.

“Each local police department in Mercer County has a table of organization to serve the same purpose. Even McDonald’s doesn’t run without a table of organization and the fact that Sheriff Larkin has been running his office in such a reckless manner for so many years once again proves his record of mismanagement,” said McSorley.

Mercer County Democratic Chairman Richard McClellan responded by likening McSorley to Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame, saying that McSorley has been given everything he’s asked for except documents of a sensitive security nature, like judge protection plans.

The idleness of retirement, combined with his naked political ambition, appears to have addled Mr. McSorley's recollection of the facts,” said McClellan. “Mr. McSorley may not like fact that his fishing expeditions through thousands of pages of documents at the taxpayers expense have not brought any results that he liked ,and his release is frankly a whiney and petulant example of that fact, but he has been given exactly what he asked for wherever the release of that information is allowed by law.”

McClellan said that over 900 pages of time records McSorley requested are sitting in the county building.

“They are only waiting for him to pony up the $217 for the copying charges,” he said.