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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Are they just rumors?

Anyone who pays attention to county government has heard the rumors: taxpayers' money spent on avoidable lawsuits, county commissioners ignoring legal advice from their own lawyers, good employees quitting because of poor management or being fired for odd reasons.

The question is, is any of this true? Or are they just rumors?

2 comments:

  1. I honestly don't know if they're rumors. The paper and the radio station are so partisan and unreliable when it comes to objective content and "whispering campaigns" thrive seemingly everywhere. All I ever see is a County continually in Court, in front of Regulatory authorities, throwing rhetorical bombs and, for some reason that eludes me, proud of choosing the wrong side of almost every issue when it comes to governance and proud of it. Being contrarian doesn't mean that you're correct. That's all I see in the results and if "rumors" are a symptom of the problem it would be a good idea to identify and remove the cause. Wouldn't it?

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  2. No they are not just rumors - unfortunately. In one department of our county government there was an inappropriate personal relationship between a staff member (management position)and a former commissioner, a unwarranted firing of a long time and skilled employee after a long campaign to "pay him back" for speaking the truth about development in fire prone wildlands specifically those outside fire districts with inaccessible roads for emergency vehicles, outright harrassment of employees who stood up to the director and refused to participate in wrong doings of many varieties, etc.
    Submitted by a former 8 year employee of this department.

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