By OfCourseTheyDo

January 24, 2011 8:42 PM | Link to this

Of course they want to move on. Past experience shows us all that the quicker they can silence the story, the quicker the voters will forget all about it, and the quicker they can get on to their next crony dirty deal.

By ondeck

January 24, 2011 9:01 PM | Link to this

be certain you will begin to see dixon and furmon team up and make deals to cut carpenter out. really the deals will make no more sense than anything else that has been going on the last year in butler county but at least they will make carpenter powerless. any other office holder that has a grudge against carpenter (ie:reynolds, nix, swain) will get “special” treatment if it causes cindy pain, as long as they can stick one in carpenters back dixon and furmon will vote on it together. they will of course be able to say well the personel salary study says, well the state auditor says, well the SURVEY SAYS ! get the picture-this is butler county politics and it has nothing to do with what is best for the tax payer. remember furmon did not want a salary study, dixon did not want a performance audit now parts of the studies will become gospel because it will present an excuse to get at carpenter. the old saying politics makes strange bed fellows will become common occurrence in butler county commissioners office.

By outsidethefence

January 25, 2011 9:47 AM | Link to this

This whole situation came about because Ms. Carpenter does not have the maturity, temperament or foresight to be commissioner and Mr. Dixon wanted to bloody Mr. Furmon’s nose a little. We can be pleased that Mr. Dixon took the keys before the teenager got a chance to drive the car.

By tooutsidethefence

January 25, 2011 9:56 AM | Link to this

you have some of the idea however dixon has recently shown he has no idea what is going on or how to fix it. dixon has been in the pan and out of the pan flip flopping around so much how can anyone have confidence is his decisions ? but when your decisions are made to protect one office holder or to appease a particular special interest group how can you make the best decision for the tax paying public ?

By county employee

January 25, 2011 10:32 AM | Link to this

to all the bloggers, you seem to think you know what is happening or how to fix the county. it seems no one understands how we as county employees are impacted. we have office holders and their friends coming in and out of government. all with goals that have more importance on what the media impact is going to be rather than what is good for the public and care even less for the hard working employees and yes I do mean hardworking. sure like many organizatons there are those who do not make an effort but that is a low percentage. when we have good leadership and direction we can do good otherwise we reflect those who are in charge. office holders who rant and rave or put down their employees and think they bring anyone off the street or from private business in that will do a better job are just plain ignorant, inexperinced or reaching for headlines.

By Same as before

January 25, 2011 5:55 PM | Link to this

This is the same as before. The republican ran county is corrupt. Sindy and Don are snakes in the grass. Didn’t vote for them. NEVER WILL. The republicans could be a yellow tailed dog on the ballot and the people of this county would vote it in office. ruff ruff. We are screwed. The budget will be the end of the county.

By Wide Awake

January 26, 2011 8:13 AM | Link to this

he almost got Don where she wanted and I thought he was smarter than that. People, we need a clean sweep. All of the county officials,out! To plan to pay what was in the program to replace county officials was reckless. This county is in trouble trouble. financially.

By Keep Count

January 26, 2011 4:42 PM | Link to this

Can anyone satisfy Don Dixon? Since Dixon joined the commission look at who’s left: two county administrators (almost a third), two finance officers (almost a third), the personnel director, three directors at Children Services, EMA Director, economic development director, and water and sewer director. It’s hard to think that all these people were so incompetent that they had to lose their jobs; I think Dixon just has an issue with everyone he meets.

By think about it

January 27, 2011 10:27 AM | Link to this

You can’t bring in your own cronies unless you fire the cronies that are already there. The old cronies are still loyal to the old regime. Face it, no one gets hired in the county (from the lowliest clerk to the highest manager) unless you know someone, are related to someone, or have a business connection that profits somebody. You don’t have to be educated, you don’t have to take a test to prove you are qualified, you don’t have to have any viable experience you just have to know someone. The more powerful the “someone” you know, the higher up the crony ladder you can climb.