Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Craighead County likes nepotism
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Here's a Jonesboro Sun story to inspire faith in local elected officials. The Craighead County Quorum Court rejected a proposed anti-nepotism rule in county hiring despite the fact that many similiarly-sized counties have them.
“This is Craighead County, and we don’t have to follow other counties’ policies,” Justice of the Peace Jim Bryant said.
Public Affairs Committee members, who originally proposed the law, reportedly contacted counties similar in size to Craighead and asked if they had nepotism policies. Counties included Sebastian, Searcy, Washington, Saline and Faulkner.
All counties contacted have anti-nepotism policies, committee members said.
“We are elected by the people to run our offices as we see fit,” County Judge Dale Haas said. “And part of that is hiring workers that we know will work hard.”
Really. If you can't hire relatives, why have a public job in the first place?
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Justice Bryant probably went on to say, "...here in Craighead County, our cars get 3 rods to the hogshead and that's the way we like it.."
It's like state employees with cars. If we say it's not a problem or illegal, then it's not a problem or illegal.
No one would ever hire a bunch of relatives to be paid employees who never show up for work. Nope, never. Not a problem. And if it is a problem, we've already said it's legal, so shut up.
Kind of like they do things up North. When the son of Mayor Daly in Chicago got a job in an insurance agency & the city of Chicago's entire insurance portfolio was quietly switched to him, Hizhonor was quoted something like "If a dad can't help out his kid now & then, what good is he?"
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