Yes, you heard it here from your friend in delivering the latest news featuring moronica to you. If you ever plan to become a director of the Rochester International Airport in NY State, and keeping the job, you need to stay away from these things as they are very bad for you.
About a year ago Dave Damelio was the director of this airport and he loved his cigars. Boy did he love his cigars. He loved them so much that he racked up $17,000 worth of cigar purchases on Monroe County's dime. This idiot figured that the County's credit card was his own and racked up a lot of his personal spending on the thing. Cigars were the number one item followed by strip clubs and the like...all in the purpose of entertaining clients he said. Actually it was all about entertaining himself. What a moron. See kids, you need to stay away from tobacco!!!
Susan Walsh replaced Mr. Damelio as the Airport's director soon after this scandal unfolded. Well, in continuing the trend of morons being selected by Maggie Brooks to run our Airport Ms. Walsh, a couple of weeks ago, was arrested for misdemeanor DWI. She may have been fine with it except her moronic tendencies shined brightly through. First, Ms. Walsh was driving a County vehicle while drunk. Second, she board checked another vehicle while in the County car while driving drunk. Third, she asked for "help" from the arresting officer after her accident in the county vehicle while driving drunk. Any imbecile knows what kind of 'help' Ms. Walsh was asking for. There has been no information released about her whereabouts from 1:00 pm until her arrest. Supposedly she was at the Airport Christmas party but where she went after that nobody knows. She ended up resigning from her post only a couple of days ago. What a moron!!! See kids, you need to stay away from alcohol.
Does it have to say on the resumes, that are submitted to the person in charge of hiring these people for the position of Airport Director, that you are a moron? Obviously whomever reviewed the resumes skipped over that paragraph. Being a moron must be a key asset to have in order to become the Airport Director. I am the King of Moronica so you would think that I should be a natural to be hired for this position but I lack the basic trait that is seemingly required for this job - Stupidity.
Unless, of course, it is the job itself that drives you to become a moron. There are jobs that do that. Barack Obama was thought to be a very intelligent man before becoming President. Now over half the country thinks he has become a moron. It must be the job.
So in conclusion kids stay away from tobacco and alcohol!!! Unless, of course, you want to become Director of the Rochester International Airport.
5 comments:
I think the lesson is that when you think you are too big or too important to have to follow the rules, you are likely to get sent a message.
I think Damelio is a little more desrving of criticism than Ms. Walsh. His actions were clearly in the realm of official misconduct. His cigars and strip club trips were at our expense.
There is no sense thst Walsh was abusing her position (she may have abused alcohol). I suppose she cost taxpayers something due to damage to the car and light pole. Still, I think the two situations are somewhat different.
I disagree with you Repoman. What I was describing was moronica, not abusing power. I actually feel what Ms. Walsh did was far worse and here is why:
1) She was driving drunk and was well past the .08 limit.
2) She was drive a county vehicle at the time she was involved in an accident while driving drunk.
3) You do not risk someone else's life when your are buying cigars on the company dime.
What she did was put other people's lives at risk and showed that she is very irresponsible. Too many people die from getting hit by drunk drivers and she got lucky no one was killed in her accident.
I would like to know what the County's responsibilty would have been if she killed someone while in a County vehicle.
Damelio was stupid. Walsh was irresponsible. There is a big difference.
PS: It is also abusing power when you let the arresting officer know who you are and ask for 'help'.
I don't condone drunk driving but you are setting up a pretty tough standard.
Repeat offender drunks like the guy who killed the Amish folks down near Penn Yan are one thing. But there are basically decent people who make a one-off mistake. I don't know which category Walsh falls in, but we'll never know because she was forced out of her job to avoid political damage.
I've been in my car after I had a couple of drinks. I think I know my limit, but would it be a shock if on any particular night that "one for the road" was the one that pushed me over the legal limit. That's my responsibility but I don't think it necessarily ought to cost me my job (unless my job required driving).
Their are other circumstances in this issue. If she was caught driving in her own car and did not ask for 'help' that would be one thing, and she should and probably would have kept her position but, and it is a big but, she used a county vehicle and tried to use her position to get 'help'. While you are great and all powerful, you are not in an appointed position responsible for an international airport, I do not think that you would ask for the 'help' she asked for nor would you be able to. The arresting officer would laugh at you, big time attorney, or me, King of Moronica, if we tried that. It is the use of the county vehicle while drunk and the 'help' that are the issues here that cost her her job. A straight DWI would not have done that. It would have been embarrassing to her but she would still be the director.
PS: The County should go after Damelio for recompensation and
the Penn Yan guy deserves the chair for what he did. It is murder times six.
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