A report came in this evening that signs promoting a county administrator have been placed around Coos Bay and North Bend. If anyone has seen one please check to see who is paying for them and let me know. One location is the east side of Hwy 101 in the vicinity of the Red Lion and another is just south of the bridge in North Bend. A photograph would also be much appreciated.
As someone pointed out the administrator ordinance is not a voter initiative anyway whereas the charter actually is a citizen initiative and Parry has been very vocal in his opposition to the charter. My guess is Al is shocked and appalled because Harleys don’t come standard with airbags too
Al, bless you for rarely missing an opportunity to reveal the shallowness of your thought process . Next he will be telling us all why airplane windows should roll down
Once again they send Fredo out to flail around. How dare the Sheriff speak the truth to the people.
“Truth for thee, not for me” ‘Fredo’ pettit.
OGEC has a very narrow scope of authority, unfortunately, but it will be interesting to see any complaint filed. Further, elected officials, even appointed elected officials, may dispense their opinions freely as Cam regularly does while on the public dime.
Hi Al. You need a new seat for the bike. The current seat is affecting your thinking. Wasn’t Parry on company time also? Why are we paying him to take a day off to prepare for his radio program and time off to do the program? Shouldnt he reimburse us? Wasn’t it also Parry who has often campaigned for the administrator position on company time?
…and speaking of an Administrator: as the official watchdog of County Ethics I am shocked and very surprised that you missed an excellent opportunity to file a legitimate ethics complaint against Sheriff Craig Zanni, who recently hijacked Cam Parry’s radio program to campaign against the Administrator position. If you want to file an ethics complaint that actually has validity, the law is very clear: public officials cannot campaign for or against a voter initiative while working on public time.
As for Sheriff Zanni: I’m wondering how the same person can complain about not having any middle-management in his department (due to 2007 layoffs, all management positions were eliminated in lieu of union positions, leaving Zanni to “manage” approximately 90 people), yet vehemently opposes the most important and glaringly obvious gap in the County’s management structure: an Administrator. I understand his motivation: the reason Zanni put his name to the indefensible and ill-conceived “Minority Report” last year was because Main promised to raid the Corrections department’s hard-earned surplus budget for Zanni’s department. That surplus was money that the Corrections employees had saved to re-establish a drug treatment center – something that the entire department feels is desperately needed in this drug-infested county. Those Corrections employees didn’t buy new cars, didn’t hire a much needed secretary, didn’t file all their business expenses (often paying out of their own pockets) and watched every penny to save that money. Fortunately for the Corrections Department and Coos County citizens, our County judges demonstrated superior common sense and put a stop to Main’s plan. The Corrections department monitors over 400 county felons and their good work should not be taken lightly by anyone. I understand budgets are tight, but robbing Peter to pay Paul only patches one problem while creating another.
I’m guessing you’re not going to file that ethics complaint. That’s OK – other people are, and I’m guessing it’s going to cost Zanni a tad more than $150.
We need to determine who is funding the campaign signs
There is one at Dominoes Pizza on Ocean Blvd in Coos Bay. Also a Charter sign. Surprisingly, there a considerably less Messerle signs out in Coos Bay, North Bend and Charleston.
I saw one, but then I flushed.