Sick of the Fraud and Obfuscation? Yeah, me too!
- Naked Conch - Posted by Matt Gardi - May 5, 2012
Folks, today in the Citizen is a nice little article from Timothy O'Hara about some additional equipment that has gotten up and walked off. Again this is a drop in the bucket, and as I am sure you are aware more than likely the result of our pursuit of the inventory issues that we have been doggedly following here on Naked Conch.
You can read about my saga, the resistance of releasing information, and the character assassination that has gone along with my efforts to find the truth in numerous posts here on Naked Conch. Simply do a search for the word "Inventory." The most recent synopsis can be found in my post County Inventory "Whack-a-mole!
What is most disturbing about this latest "revelation" is how it came about. According to the article;
"Deputy County Administrator Debbie Frederick told technical services workers to file Tuesday's police report after the Clerk of the Circuit Court Office conducted an audit and asked about the missing computers."
Seriously? So on Tuesday, May 1, our heroes at the Clerk's Office push for filing a police report as a result of an audit they just conducted?!?!
So I guess when Property Clerk Mitch Hedman pushed Lisa Druckemiller for this very same equipment a year ago in an email dated May 26, 2011 (Here - Look for the laptops for Alchemy training that add up to the dollar amount in O'Hara's article.) and then again in an email dated July 25, 2011 (Here)... oh and then yet again on August 8, 2011 (Here) that it just wasn't good enough for Danny Kolhage to ask for a police report to be filed and/or have Druckemiller answer some questions. But it was good enough for him to pressure Mitch Hedman the guy exposing it to resign. (Here)
This goes along with all the other issues Hedman was bringing to light at the Health Department, and the Fire Department. Oh, but now we have this intense audit that brings only these four laptops into question when there are literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of other inventory Hedman was exposing by being a diligent hard working effective public servant protecting our tax dollars!!!!
Give me a break! Hedman deserves a huge round of applause, and compensation for doing his job and suffering the consequences of exposing the machine. Do you ever wonder why it is that a completely unqualified Druckemiller rises to the very top in our system, while someone like Hedman who respects being a public servant is pushed out the door?
The reasons for that is ultimately worse than the theft itself. It's people in positions of authority protecting the perpetrators and discouraging hard working public servants through intimidation. It's power players that aren't forth coming with public records requests that are intentionally obfuscating and preventing the public from gaining access to the truth.
Folks, it's time we read between the lines to reveal the answer to the questions on all our minds...how could this have happened? How? I'll tell you. Because the people at the very top, the very top, not only condone this activity, but protect it. These revered people that never do anything wrong are equally as culpable, and we keep electing them.
That is how it happens. End of story.
The reasons for that is ultimately worse than the theft itself. It's people in positions of authority protecting the perpetrators and discouraging hard working public servants through intimidation. It's power players that aren't forth coming with public records requests that are intentionally obfuscating and preventing the public from gaining access to the truth.
Folks, it's time we read between the lines to reveal the answer to the questions on all our minds...how could this have happened? How? I'll tell you. Because the people at the very top, the very top, not only condone this activity, but protect it. These revered people that never do anything wrong are equally as culpable, and we keep electing them.
That is how it happens. End of story.
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