ACHTUNG: This is not a “fair and balanced” article. It is an editorial by the editor.

I swear on the grave of Shostakovich that I checked in at the Allegan County Clerk’s election site at 4:15 p.m., 15 minutes after the deadline, and noticed the name of John Tuinstra was missing from the Dorr Township candidate list.

So I published a story that he hadn’t filed and there would be one vacant seat on the board as a result in the Aug. 6 primary election.

That turned out to be wrong, and I suppose I had egg on my face because a couple of hours later a credible source texted me to report Tuinstra’s named indeed was on the list.

Another quality source told me the next day that it was his understanding that Tuinstra waited until the last minute to file in hopes someone else, who shared his views on township government, would put her name on the ballot. She didn’t, so he hastily filed right at 4 p.m. and the clerk’s office didn’t publish that information until around 4:30.

So in my haste to “get the scoop” I was foiled and forced to tell Townbroadcast readers that Tuinstra was back in business.

Tuinstra has been criticized by Townbroadcast and by colleagues for making fierce defense of term limits when voting against the appointments of Planning Commissioners Bob Wagner and Army Bob Traxler and ZBA veteran Ethel Visser. Yet he now is destined to serve his fourth four-year term as a trustee on the Dorr Township Board, in stark violation of the principles he has espoused in his votes against veterans on other boards and commissions.

So how does he spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y? But does it even matter? He will be re-elected handily.

As comedian George Carlin so eloquently said, “But nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.”

I quote this frequently, and perhaps some have tired of it. But it’s truth is damn hard to ignore. It’s a matter of fairness.

As Dorr Trustee Dan Weber once said to Tuinstra, “You tell people to do as you say, but not do as you do.”