The Daily Times has removed all traces of evidence on their internet servers against law breaking beach-fag Jim Ireton who is unqualified to be mayor.

That’s no surprise. The TImes on the Ditch news rag also scrubbed their internet archives of drunk gun law violating criminal Davis Ruark, the Wicomico State’s Attorney!

Great transparency, The Daily Times! What a worthless toilet roll that newspaper is.

Nevertheless, OR has dragged the faggotry of Jim Ireton up from the depths of Gemmorah:

"Ireton answers the hard questions" (March 15, 2009)

 … City Council departure

Ireton was elected to the Salisbury City Council in 1998 and resigned 16 months later. He submitted his letter of resignation Aug. 2, 1999, to be read during a work session Aug. 4. Ireton said he left to take a better-paying job, but said his role on the council had become stressful.

"I left because I had an opportunity to make more money; there were other things that went along with it," Ireton said.

He said the two tied together because money was a source of anxiety for him.

"It was an ugly experience," he said. "All the idealism I had was ripped out." He added that he wasn’t comfortable with the role veteran counterparts on council had carved out for him, largely due to his inexperience.

Before leaving the council, Ireton said he helped finish a "very successful budget" and was proud of helping lower city taxes by 2 cents.

A teacher at the time, Ireton also left his school job before the school year’s conclusion. As a result, he said, his teaching certificate was pulled for one year until he could reapply, preventing him from taking another teaching job immediately. During that time, Ireton worked for Alternative Resources Corp. in Linthicum, Md., until the business changed his position and he left.

He returned to Salisbury and worked as a news producer at WBOC-TV until spring 2000, when he returned to the Baltimore area to teach at Mount Royal Elementary School. He also studied at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, where he earned his master’s degree.

Ireton said his decision to leave the council had nothing to do with a controversial Open Meetings Act violation he received for forming quorums with other council members outside of council chambers. He maintains the violation was unintentional.

"I’m not sure who messed up because somebody was supposed to switch chairs or somebody was supposed to go back to the booth, and it was probably me," he said. "But all I can tell you is there was an absence of malice in all of this."

Ireton said a subsequent verbal battle with Jack Elliott, a council candidate, did not play into his decision to resign. Elliott’s demands for an apology from Ireton — Elliott had been described as a "henchman" for Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman — played widely in the media, creating further tension.

"It just ended up being a place where you get up in the morning, saying, ‘Hmm, not filling potholes. I’m doing the best I can. I’m learning as much as I can. But ..,’" he said. "So I smoked a lot of cigarettes."

Job commitment

Ireton said he would never leave a public office in such a way ever again. He said that by also holding a part-time job with the Wicomico County Board of Education, he can afford to live on the mayor’s $25,000 annual salary.

"If you look and see where I am on the pay scale in the school system and what I have with my degrees, and the way the economy is, I’d have to win the lottery to leave," he said.

Rehoboth Beach infraction

Ireton received a municipal infraction from Rehoboth Beach Police in 2006 after he was seen on the public beach after curfew hours.

There have been allegations that Ireton ran from police during the post-3 a.m. incident that occurred Aug. 18, 2006.

Rehoboth Beach Police Chief Keith Banks told The Daily Times that when an officer approached Ireton and another man, they fled. Ireton stopped at the boardwalk, where the officer contacted him.

Ireton maintains he ran in an effort to stop the other person — who was not cited by police — so he wouldn’t be the only one left to face an officer.

"My attempt to say, ‘Oh no … I’m not the only one getting a ticket here,’ was misconstrued as ‘I’m taking off, too,’ " he said. "I got a ticket."

Ireton was handed a criminal summons for disturbing the peace and appeared in court the following November. "I went to court," he said. "It’s a municipal infraction."

Ireton said he does regret the incident.

"I beat myself up now for being stupid and being out on the beach," he said. "Maybe if I thought at one point three years ago I was going to run for mayor of Salisbury, maybe I would have had my watch on."

Ireton, who shares in the ownership of a vacation trailer near Rehoboth Beach, said he’s attended many a bonfire on many a beach at night.

"I just don’t want this to be turned into something it’s not," he said… (delmarvanow.com)