tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8244006644852122907..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-11312874564897912432015-09-24T05:48:51.089-05:002015-09-24T05:48:51.089-05:00Recommended by Debby Daniels, too!<br />Straub&#39;s management will affect Indianapolis for years and years, and Millions and Millions of dollars,.... Good call Mayor Marine!<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-23416283847679945192015-09-23T13:41:33.422-05:002015-09-23T13:41:33.422-05:00Anon 11:41 - This may come as a shock, but some of us have better things to do than sit around and count airplanes. Do you work for the city or the state? Atmospheric conditions don&#39;t favor the formation of contrails today. Maybe that&#39;s it ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-32635367974008619442015-09-23T12:44:04.784-05:002015-09-23T12:44:04.784-05:00Didn&#39;t Straub find his way here as because of a recommendation of Stephen goldsmith?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-73560682873029850412015-09-23T11:41:14.792-05:002015-09-23T11:41:14.792-05:00Abnormally low to no air traffic today which is not explained by a pope visit to the east coast. Anyone notice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-26617567882122116912015-09-23T11:05:17.415-05:002015-09-23T11:05:17.415-05:00That a-hole East Coast style doesn&#39;t work much west of Pittsburgh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27702314207738675732015-09-23T09:49:46.701-05:002015-09-23T09:49:46.701-05:00Does not say much for Ballard&#39;s discernment of talent....a problem with those having little of such....beginning to think this applies to Mike Pence. Can anyone name an administrator he has appointed that is doing a stellar job? By taking on all of the Mitch retreads he exposed himself as someone who didn&#39;t know people in Indiana or elsewhere capable of performance, e.g. Mitch&#39;s guys did fix the license branch lines and procedures. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-59756290934424978602015-09-23T09:39:19.571-05:002015-09-23T09:39:19.571-05:00Eugene White brings to mind Dr. Dexter Suggs, a black fraud hired by IPS, on the basis of phony dissertation....in my experience with Black Doctorates in Education there is probably a LOT of that. It is to the credit of Indiana Wesleyan University that they revoked his Doctorate. But, IPS doesn&#39;t appear to be going after the refunds due them. Nor has IWU punished the laxity by which their diploma mill hands out credentials with little to no examination. I am not sure that Eugene White hired this particular Black fraud but there doe seem to be some or a lot of that Black hiring Blacks going on and without too much regard for performance or ability. Reminds of my school board days when some Michigan burg came down looking for a Black Superintendent of Schools on the belief that was what they needed. I was very relieved to not be asked for my opinion of the performance of our Black Superintendent. He left a cozy job to take on their challenge but did not last long...meaning only that he had drank of the Black kool aid. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-45903263505916408972015-09-23T08:20:44.458-05:002015-09-23T08:20:44.458-05:00The answer to these oddities is likely corruption. High placed recommendations combined with an otherwise inferior candidate who&#39;s on the lam generically makes for someone easily controlled or reliably providing distraction from other activities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16467703185410758432015-09-23T07:41:58.675-05:002015-09-23T07:41:58.675-05:00How many on this blog could have predicted this. I guessed three years. I wonder what his wife, Amber has to say about these things. A zebra doesn&#39;t change its stripes. She was just one of his conquests.<br /><br />This man has such a poor self image that he has to make up for it by bring others down to his self perceived level. Inside every narcissist is a scared little boy. The current negative climate of IMPD still goes back to his influence. <br /><br />Given his career path, NYPD, White Plains, Indy, Spokane, can Kokomo or Greenfield be his next stop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-2952772092676549852015-09-23T07:38:20.691-05:002015-09-23T07:38:20.691-05:00The damage he did in Indianapolis will take years to fix. He ruined careers and promoted buffoons. Let&#39;s hope his deconstruction of Police Departments has come to an end. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-68975870800958905532015-09-23T06:25:50.555-05:002015-09-23T06:25:50.555-05:00In Straub&#39;s case, he has some powerful people in national law enforcement vouching for him when he applies for a job, which includes the FBI. That carries a lot of weight. There is an assumption that there is institutional resistance within police departments to change, which is the real source of a chief&#39;s problems. It turned out that the controversial Regional Operations Center, which Straub was forced to defend, was not of his making at all; rather, it was forced on him by Mayor Ballard for political reasons. The complaints about Straub&#39;s management style here seem to be validated by the folks in Spokane. Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-65353086696680232412015-09-23T04:10:36.004-05:002015-09-23T04:10:36.004-05:00What blows my mind is that high level people can get job after job, despite a checkered job history that is easily discovered with a routine internet search. When Straub got the job I joked that Spokane must not have Google yet because they didn&#39;t seem to know about his troubled employment history in Indy and White Plains.<br /><br />It&#39;s the same with the John Clark who ran the Indy airport and IPS chief Eugene White. Both had major problems, yet had no problem getting the Indy jobs and ones after they were pushed out the door.<br /><br />These government entities do more investigation to hire a janitor than they do a police chief, a school superintendent, the head of an airport, etc.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-87918906666277740972015-09-22T22:00:25.727-05:002015-09-22T22:00:25.727-05:00That a-hole just can&#39;t keep it in his pants, can he??Sir Hailstonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301073859882785758noreply@blogger.com