WHO WILL BE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION/TRANSITION'S STINK BUG?
There's always one. Wolfowitz, Bert Lance, Web Hubbell, Bebe Rebozo, Lyndon Johnson's closet gay guy in the bathroom at Union Station. Always.
Right now, my best guess is Valerie. She likes that TV camera and offers a lot of opinions about what the prez-elect is pledged to do. That's a combination that can become combustible in no time flat!
Who's your candidate?
posted by UMRBlog @ 00:44
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14 Comments:
I'm gonna say Biden just because he really does say some goofy stuff that might get some more attention now that he is the veep.
Who was Clinton's stink bug?
Hillary? (Hee, hee)
Hubbell, but honorable mention goes to the Sec'y of Ag, who was acquited but still had about 683 ethics problems.
TYFCB
I am impressed with Bush W and his open policy to POTUS elect Obama
Took,
Funny thing about Bush--Cowboy world view but generally gentlemanly. Got that much from his Dad I guess.
TYFCB
Today would have been an appropriate day to reveal the details of the City of Quincy's Veteran's preference policy for employment.
Don't you think? Did you find that yet? Maybe a hacker removed it from the system.
1414,
It only exists in the sworn departments.
Obviously, points for veterans pref only come into issue where there is a point system and the city's civilian departments do not use a point system.
And, no I don't think this is particularly good day to talk any further about it since you're only interested in nitpicking with me or have a grudge against the city administration, or both. Don't see how this discussion honors or thanks veterans.
TYFCB
Well, when it is a particularly good day for you, introduce it. Otherwise, you can wax poetically all you want about how veterans should get the treatment they deserve, but when you have a chance to make a real difference, you punt. The only point system in the civilian depts is last name. It's disgraceful that the third son or nephew of someone politically connected gets the job over a veteran. It's happened, and it is pathetic. There's your grudge hypocrite.
So you are in favor of a veteran's preference in civilian hires? Show me the text of your request to speak to city council on this topic that seems to stir you so greatly. How about your letter to any of tne last say, ten, mayors.
Of course then you deftly change the subject to the tender fact that you don't like the last names of some city hires. Grudge, naked, narrow grudge.
Your question's been answered.
Whoever you are, you have no idea what I do or have done on this, or probably any, topic.
You got your answer explanation. If you want to get after me, please don't use veterans as your chesspieces.
umr 734
The answer is, there is no city veterans preference hiring policy in place. It's sad you find it necessary to blame others, when you've had a better chance in your position to put one in place. Have you lobbied for one? Doubtful!
Wouldn't it be fairly easy to put a point system in place? These guys deserve a crack at these jobs more than the relatives of the aldermen.
0554,
Can't you read? There IS one in the sworn departments/Commission jurisdiction. There isn't in the civilian departments.
I am not a legislator and I don't discuss what advice I give my clients.
But I will say this: If I were King of The World, all governmental units with more than 50 employees would have to employ a veteran's preference point system or tie-breaker in any job which did not require a preexisting professional license.
But, I'm not King of The World and that's not the law. You are free to appear before the legislature or any City Council you want and request such a change.
UMR,
I think you're just talking to a dense, impermeable material he uses as a brain.
He doesn't seem to comprehend that it is not the place of a city attorney (even part time) to propose such an action--and that it therefore devolves on him to introduce it to the aldermen and mayor if he truly believes it is something worth having.
I suppose you might mollify him by saying "You build it and I will come support it".
But I don't think his reading comprehension is good enough to understand such a statement.
First off, drop the "client" crap. You're listed as a city employee. Second, you can find writing a campaign letter for your Mayor on city letterhead as part of your official duties, but you can't as a veteran yourself find the sack to suggest to the current administration that a veterans preference hiring policy is a good idea? I realize the duties and responsibilities of the city legal staff is a highly complex matrix of dos and don'ts that we common folk might find difficult to understand, but you are not really as important as you and anon 4:18 think you are.
City is a client. That's a fact.
You're gonna have to show me where I ever told anybody I was important to anybody.
You don't know and can't ever know what I recommend and don't recommend.
The rest of your submission is false and apparently fueled by some sort of grudge, the subject, matter of which I neither know nor care about.
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