Article source for : Carty Finkbeiner's uncouth people skills
This is probably what happens when an ignorant person assumes a position of power.
June 3, 2008 Toledo Blade "story":http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS16/806030373 :
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The Toledo law director and the No. 2 lawyer for the city had their jobs switched yesterday by the Finkbeiner administration - which insisted the shuffle was a "lateral move." Many of the top officials under Mayor Carty Finkbeiner were *silent* yesterday on the demotion and promotion.
Elizabeth Phillips, the mayor's spokesman, said it was "mutually agreed upon" and a "lateral move" for both lawyers. "It was an administrative decision. It's not a demotion." Mr. Loukx's salary will increase from $80,000 a year to $86,000; Mr. Madigan's salary will decrease from $86,000 to $82,000. Mr. Madigan was Mr. Loukx's boss; now Mr. Loukx will be Mr. Madigan's boss.
Neither the mayor nor Robert Reinbolt, his chief of staff, could be reached for comment last night.
"If you don't run everything by the mayor first and get his approval, this is what happens," [Councilman Ashford] said. "When Madigan made a suggestion that he might be able to give independent law opinion to council, maybe that did it."
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Yeah right, a benign, mutually agreed upon lateral move that no one in Carty's administration is discussing except for the crapola spewed by Czarty's new mouthpiece.
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Mr. Finkbeiner has a history of demotions in his most recent term as mayor, which began in January, 2006.
*Patsy Scott* resigned as information and communications technology director in June, 2007, after walking out of a staff meeting where she said Mayor Finkbeiner was berating her. The mayor rejected her resignation and fired Ms. Scott.
Three black former Finkbeiner administration officials claimed racial discrimination in a lawsuit against the city and the mayor filed last month in U.S. District Court in Toledo. *Perlean Griffin*, former director of Affirmative Action/Contract Compliance; *Dwayne Morehead*, former co-executive director of the youth commission, and *Gary Daugherty*, a former manager of environmental services, each want $1 million and reinstatement to their positions.
Mrs. Griffin was fired March 6, 2007, after she objected to the demotion of her office from the department level to a division within the Department of Human Resources and a reduction in pay from $70,000 to $67,000. Mr. Morehead was fired in August, 2007, for "job abandonment" for failing to go to work. He said he was sick. Mr. Daugherty was one of the 23 employees who received 30-day layoff notices in March, 2007, during a budget-cutting move.
In another case, former police *Capt. Jack Smith*, 57, a 33-year department veteran, left the chief of police job June 27, 2006, after a confrontation with the mayor. He had replaced Chief Michael Navarre in January, 2006, after Mr. Finkbeiner, as mayor-elect, said he thought the city would benefit from a new police chief. Mr. Finkbeiner reappointed Chief Navarre to lead the department hours after Chief Smith stepped down.
During his first two terms as mayor, from 1994 through 2001, at least 15 senior staff members left city hall citing differences with Mr. Finkbeiner - beginning with then-police *Chief Marti Felker*, who resigned Jan. 1, 1994, saying the mayor would not "discuss the issues" of how best to provide police protection.
Other notable resignations included those of:
*Carolyn Wiley*, who quit in April, 1994, as the mayor's administrative assistant after just two weeks saying she "felt like a whipped puppy" after the mayor called her into his office and berated her over a "typographical error."
*John Mattimoe*, who resigned as law director three months later citing the mayor's temper tantrums "against members of my staff."
*John Alexander*, chief of staff who cited personal differences with the mayor when he opted for a lower-paying job with Lucas County in June, 1996.
*G. Ray Medlin, Jr.*, who quit as the city's development director in January, 2000, after just 39 days on the job. He said he felt hemmed in by the bureaucratic structure of city government. But reports of tension and difficult encounters between the mayor and Mr. Medlin suggested Mr. Finkbeiner's behavior played a role in Mr. Medlin's departure.
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br. From a December 26, 2004 Toledo Talk posting titled "Carty Finkbeiner lovefest":http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/16/865 :
* A counter employee at a ProCare service station told police that Carty Finkbeiner yelled and used profane language when he complained on Saturday about a *delay to get an oil change* for his vehicle.
* The city hall staff member who was involved in an altercation Tuesday with Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday that she won't take any action against the mayor. Lisa Marie Kowalski, 23, administrative assistant to Arturo Quintero, the mayor's executive officer, said she won't pursue the matter with police, through internal channels, or with a lawyer. When asked why she decided to drop the matter, Ms. Kowalski replied: "No comment." The incident took place about 5 p.m. Tuesday. Ms. Kowalski has declined to give specifics but has said the mayor used repeated profanity. She said she reported the incident to Marsha Serio, the city's director of human resources. Ms. Serio has not returned numerous calls seeking comment and was off work yesterday.
* Mr. Skiadas, owner of Pepe's Mexican Restaurant & Cantina on West Sylvania Avenue, was preparing to open the restaurant in the city-owned [Erie Street] market when Mr. Finkbeiner confronted him about construction delays that caused the restaurant to miss a July 4th weekend opening. Mr. Skiadas claimed the former mayor was verbally and physically abusive, screamed profanity, and threatened to send city inspectors to find violations at the West Sylvania restaurant. He claimed stress from the incident caused him to suffer an angina attack that sent him to a hospital, and that he was so badly traumatized, he was suicidal, depressed, and became less involved in the operation of the restaurants.
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