Times Editorial: Support the recall
— by Jeffrey Wisniewski — 4 February 2011 — 2 comments below »
The Contra Costa Times editorial board:
The pathetic responses of two Hercules City Council members facing recall are too little too late — and reinforce that Don Kuehne and Joanne Ward lack leadership skills needed to help save the city.
As Hercules financially teeters, Kuehne and Ward blame former City Manager Nelson Oliva, whom they say kept them in the dark. That poor excuse shows they didn’t critically look at the budgets and didn’t ask basic questions about why so much money was spent with so few results. [...]
Their response? Kuehne says he was “the lone voice” trying — in closed sessions, of course — to question Oliva’s deals, but that he had to publicly support him. Ward says the arrangement with Oliva’s daughters in retrospect “didn’t look right,” and that “we should have blown the whistle.”
Didn’t look right? Maybe that’s because it was clearly wrong. No choice but to publicly support Oliva? Nonsense.
Hercules Friends, Channel 2, KTVU is running promos for Super bowl Sunday about the Hercules “troubles”. They are showing a clip of Don “The Haircut” Kuehne in this promo. Hopefully, KTVU will be presenting all sides of this issue.
The first post, by “anonymous”, was me… :):)