Friday, April 9, 2010

Nepotism 101

Iron County has a clear demonstration of nepotism
in the employment of Tom King, the dog catcher who
doesn't do his job. He is the son of Rosalie King, chair
of the Iron County Board of Commissioners.

I recently received a reply to an FOIA request from
Sue Clisch. One line in the reply is troubling:

"Apparently when the animal facility at Minerals Closed,
(sic) a number of records were lost during the move."

The Iron County dogcatcher is not very busy. Given the
small amount of real work done by Mr. King, it seems
that making certain his records went from one site to
the other should have been a simple task. In my opinion,
Mr. King is not competent to perform the functions that
the job requires. I further believe that if the job had been
filled by someone other than a family member of someone
on the board of commissioners, they'd have been replaced
long ago.

I received a report that the existing dogcatcher records have
been turned over to the Iron County Sheriff. Is this a political
maneuver designed to compensate for incompetence?

The fact that Mr. King remains in this appointed position is
evidence of nepotism. We'll expose other examples of how
machine politics and nepotism operate in Iron County in
future articles. The King example encompasses these things,
with raw nepotism clearly defined.

Bill Vajk

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