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MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: RYBAK FIRES PUBLIC WORKS CHIEF HE APPOINTED
By Michael Brodkorb | November 28, 2006
RYBAK CALLS FOR REMOVAL OF MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC WORKS CHIEF HE APPOINTED:
- "We're going to need a much stronger manager and a much stronger communicator." Source: Star Tribune, January 4, 2006
BUT RYBAK HAD PREVIOUSLY PRAISED FARBY'S LEADERSHIP:
- "[Klara Fabry] will provide the kind of leadership needed as we find smarter, more efficient ways to deliver essential services…" Source: Star Tribune, January 10, 2003
- "[Klara Fabry] exceptional rise is a good example to the growing immigrant population of this city. She is a symbol of what a woman can do and what an immigrant can do." Source: Star Tribune, October 20, 2003
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER SAID RYBAK IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR CITY'S MANAGMENT PROBLEMS
- "'Let's admit [Rybak] didn't do such a good job on that one, either,' Schiff said of the hiring of Klara Fabry, whom Rybak declined to renominate." Source: Star Tribune, March 15, 2006
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If Rybak can't run Minneapolis, how can he run for the U.S. Senate in '08?
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November 28th, 2006 at 10:51 AM
I’m not familiar with this case and any manager type person occasionally has to fire people he/she has hired. The red flag here is that RT praised her for being a woman and immigrant. Perhaps like the fire chief thing, real qualifications for the job aren’t important if you are a PC Democrat.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:05 AM
So R.T. makes another politically motivated appointment that doesn’t work out for him and he has to fire the person and totally change his tune.
I guess this is only two, so that isn’t necessarily a “pattern,” but it is getting dangerously close.
My question is this: how many of these positions in Minneapolis government have two people currently getting paid (the actual employee, and the fired employee)?
R.T. couldn’t get elected anywhere outside of a place like Minneapolis where antics like this seem quaint and progressive.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Right Dave ! And that’s why so many of us have a
problem with the STAR TRIBUNE! If your a LIBERAL
DFLER there seems to be no end to the CODDLING that this paper (and City Pages and The Southwest News)will engage in to hide their incompetent management. I wonder if the public will ever know what Bonnie Blesacek cost us in
terms of dollars for the lawsuits the city has to
settle FOR HER ? Also how much of this will SHE PERSONALLY BE LIABLE FOR ? And even though she has been paid $90,000 for NOT WORKING the last 7-8 MONTHS, will she still get a FINANCAL SETTLEMENT with the CITY ? We will all be awaiting some answers to these questions but don’t expect the STRIB to help provide them !!!
November 28th, 2006 at 12:05 PM
is that what you do on this blog? just post something then repost it 5x until your minions have it ingrained in their heads?
November 28th, 2006 at 12:49 PM
$90,000 buys a lot of bad haircuts.