12.12
Today is 12/12/12, the last triple-matching-digit date most of us will live to see. The next one will be January 1 2101, nearly 89 years from now – unless the Mayan Calendar apocalypse is true (it’s not) and we all die on 12/21.
In response criticism of the Commissioner for having no meetings in nearly two months and falling off the face of the earth, her media mouthpiece says she was on vacation and isn’t legally required to ever actually meet with the people of Walker County.
- “County coordinator David Ashburn said there has been no need to have commissioner meetings lately, since no urgent official business has crossed Heiskell’s desk in recent weeks. ‘The meetings (will) resume when there’s something to meet about,’ he said.”
Multiple citizens have asked to have things put on the meeting agenda, so the claim that there’s nothing to meet about is false. The article mentions that a commissioner is required to be in the office once a week, which she hasn’t done since before the November vote.
Bebe says she was on vacation in Florida and hasn’t had one in years, but she was on vacation shortly after the July election too. And her office staff apparently didn’t know about this vacation. They scheduled meetings for her all during the time she was gone, and claimed a week ago she was “sick” or out of the office for circumstances beyond her control.
Here’s audio from two different people on the Commissioner’s staff telling Ales Campbell Bebe was sick or otherwise indisposed, not on vacation:
So was Heiskell on vacation, sick, drying out somewhere…? Does she have health problems the voters of Walker County were not told about during the election, or do her staffers simply not know when she goes on vacation for five weeks?
If we had a commission, business could continue and meetings could be held even if one person takes a vacation or gets sick. When a member of a city council is gone, the remainder of the council meets, and the city secretary/secretaries don’t lie (or find themselves lied to) about where the councilor went.
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