This morning’s Free Press provided an unusually rich harvest of stupid decisions to ponder.
Stupid was the person who thought it would be a nice surprise to send a musical card inside a Fed-X envelope to a friend at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in St. Albans. Arriving on the day after the first anniversary of Bin Laden’s demise, it gave government employees a day off and the St. Albans police a chance to break out the full toy box in what was no doubt a very expensive day of show-and-tell.
Stupid was the guy who clocked 170-mph on a motorcycle, headed south on I-87. The cops eventually caught him and he is being held in the pokey on $20,000 bail. The Freeps said
“it could not be immediately determined if he had a lawyer.”
Better get one, Son.
Stupid was the Ohio deputy who apparently couldn’t get enough of Abu Ghraib-type funnin’ around and ordered five inmates at the jailhouse to dance for their privileges,
“inviting his colleagues to watch.”
Since he apparently used a prohibited cell-phone to play musical accompaniment, we must assume that he belongs to the short-attention-span variety of media watchers and never learned what the ultimate consequences were for the Abu Ghraib Eleven who also incorporated a cell-phone in their routine.
Unsurprisingly, the sheriff thought it was time for him to have a career change. Maybe there’ll be an opening on “Dancing with the Stars.”
And extremely stupid, were Miro Weinberger and Ian Carleton for thinking they could justify a hefty salary boost for Mr. Carleton thusly:
Carleton asserted Monday night that a higher municipal salary would be appropriate due to the significant pay cut he’d endure by leaving his current job (he’s a principal at the Burlington-based law firm Sheehey Furlong and Behm).
Carleton also said his graduation from Yale Law School should figure into a higher salary.
Where to begin with the optics of this stupid blunder? Nepotism, elitism, fiscal irresponsibility…
We don’t like it when the “other” guys do it. Our guys ought to know better.
from the new mayor
Just goes to show what I expected all along.
Caesar Niro is just as corrupt as any other party. He sure did rush to find something to taint his career with quickly, far more quickly than I thought.
That the thought of the town council balking at a bloated salary didn’t even cross Niro Whinerburg and Ritz Carleton’s minds demonstrates why they are unfit to serve.
If B’lington was a parliament he’d already lose a no-confidence vote.
With largely the same excuse. It was a forgivable mistake when he was a young whipper-snapper half a decade ago, but now … not so much.
You’d think he’d know better than to accept a lower paying job if the pay won’t meet his needs.
The point here, in the front page Freep story from Friday, is being lost. I personally would never hire Ian Carleton for anything, having experienced his absentee chairmanship of the Democratic Party after he negotiated a first-ever “stipend” for the position.
But the point is that Miro Weinberger, relatively new to politics, got it that he’d made a serious mistake and moved to rectify it relatively quickly, unlike his Progressive predecessor, who stood by Jonathan Leopold and his arrogant defense of the massive violation of charter and misuse of taxpayer funds to the bitter end.
So, Sue, I was surprised when you called Miro one of “our guys.” Given you gave up the Democratic Party in favor of the party of Bob Kiss and Jonathan Leopold, your “embrace” of the Democratic mayor might be a bit disingenuous, a way to suggest that you’re really on his side while busting him in the chops.
NanuqFC
In a Time of Universal Deceit, TELLING the TRUTH Is a Revolutionary Act. ~ George Orwell