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mrwonderful
Posts:279
 | | 03/19/2008 7:37 PM |
 Alert | I find it very hard to understand why certain mayoral and council candidates would even consider a fifty donation. Are they that strapped for funds to accept a mere fifty from Mr. Busse considered acceptibile? Hell I would contribute five times more just too have a truthful and honest candidate. This shell game needs too end for the citizens of Maricopa. Is Rick Buss running the current elections or the candidates and their need for money? Tony Smith needs to speak up and explain his actions along with other concerns, maybe he has a direct line to Rick"s control central. I thought his golden parachute would take him away for a long time, is he Tony Smith's new administrative assistant? Anybody know? Just think when Mike Ingram brings Griffiths back and Rick Buss what a shindig we will have in Pinal County. LOL | | | |
| | DesertDweller
Posts:2564
| | 03/20/2008 10:08 AM |
Alert | Well, if I were running for office, I would accept money from anyone I was running to represent provided the money was legally obtained and that there were no strings attached. A candidate should pledge to represent all of the people.
If what's alleged in the Buss lawsuit is true, the man has a case. Regardless of what people thought of him when he left here, you don't defame someone so that they can't go somewhere else and obtain employment. Most HR professionals will tell you that is why a previous employer will confirm dates and terms of employment only when asked by a prospective employer for a reference. Unless you're prepared to go to court and back up what you say, it's best to say nothing at all.
The ones that citizens should be holding accountable for putting their tax dollars at risk are the people who created this situation. From what I have seen so far, this "investigation" was handled pretty darned unprofessionally. If Rick Buss was having his managers tap phones, he should be investigated and criminally prosecuted. If he wasn't doing that, a statement or implication that he was constitutes defamation.
Griffiths is a different situation. He was convicted of multiple felonies. I doubt that we will hear from Griffiths. His relationship is that he took Ingrahms money - just like a lot of other people around her likely did the same. I'm willing to bet that the list would really raise eyebrows.
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Stupid should hurt!
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| | mrwonderful
Posts:279
| | 03/20/2008 4:49 PM |
Alert | | DD I guess it is the statements and verbage used to convince voters "I AM THE ONE TO TAKE CONTROL AND REGAIN THE CITY FROM THE CURRENT CONTROLLING GROUP" but then they turn and go straight to the creator of this mess it is in. I am still trying to figure out what the 80,000.00 grautity check was for. My time clock shows he resigned from city manager's position to assume some type of assistant city manager position so he could solve personal issues, then boom he brings in an attorney demanding a payoff or else. Unfortunately Mr. Buss and the city/staff are all responsible for this mess. He expects the city to be held to a higher standard, so is he willing to be responsible for all his own screw-ups involving the city? As an investor in a home in the city, I feel the four affirmitive council member votes should explain the reasoning for this decision. | | | |
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| | gilbertglcn
Posts:223
| | 03/20/2008 5:09 PM |
Alert | mrwonderful-The City of Maricopa never appointed Rick Buss as City Manager. As the City often does, they did not follow what should have been the protocal, by appointing him as Manager during a Council Meeting. He was officially hired as Assistant City Manager when he first got to the City, and although he was referred to as City Manager, the City Council never acted on it, at least from what I see in their meeting minutes. As such, you cannot resign from a position you were never officially appointed to.
Regardless, if the City was unprofessional enough to not turn over anything to DPS for investigation, the suit is valid, since there was a public press release stating the City did turn over information. Anyone on the Council should have known that if nothing was turned over, that they should have done something about it prior to now. If the information was not given to DPS, or if the City did not request DPS do an investigation, then the press release was incorrect.
The council cannot use the excuse that they left it up to staff, as the City Manager is their sole responsibility. The Council should have also never allowed a press release to go out that was non-factual, if in fact nothing was turned over to DPS. The discovery process for the lawsuit will reveal whether or not the City requested an investigation, turned over anything to DPS, or if the City was just making the stuff up.
Rick Buss has a right ot give any political candidate money. The Council has the ability to not do things in the proper format. Anyone has the right to sue them for that, and we have an obligation to keep at our leaders to conduct a majority of their business in the public eye, and to listen to professional advice, not their developer friends. | | | |
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