From Clatsop County Commissioner Jeff Hazen's Blog
January 24, 2008
Sam Patricks behavior
As you may have heard, The goal setting meeting wasn't without drama.
During a brief time that I was out of the room, Sam gave his opinion on the discussion with sign language.
Yes, he flipped the bird. I am astounded that he would choose to do this during a meeting where we were attempting to shape our goals for the year and to find common ground in order to work better together. Clearly, he has no desire to work with the rest of the commission and I don't understand why he continues to serve as a commissioner. I guess that I am not surprised by his actions.
I remember when the budget committee met last year and I brought up the district attorney's stipend issue. After the meeting, Sam came up to me and told me that I "f***ed up".
We all know what the fallout was after the decision was made to cut the stipend.
Clearly Sam has made his mission to tear down county government.
He personally filed a complaint against the rest of the commission accusing us of money laundering.
The complaint was baseless and tossed out by the state. He used an old campaign ploy to try and drum up controversy as the citizens were about to vote. He chose to go on the attack about the county and the disaster mitigation plan and give the local newspaper misinformation about who was responsible for the plan.
This plan lies under the auspices of the Sheriff's office and they are working diligently on the plan.
Fortunately, this commission has 4 people committed to working together for the betterment of the county. While the 4 of us may not agree on certain things as they come up, we won't create personal vendettas against each other.
We will move on to the next topic and continue the work we were elected to do. We won't get bogged down in the sewer that Sam has chosen to be in.
2 comments:
Sounds to me like the other four want to get the one out of the way so that they really have free rein to create all kinds of mayhem. Of course it also sounds like Patrick knows what the perceptions are "out there", but needs to try and keep his frustration level in check. It must be hard to be the only one with a brain in a room of.....
JimD
The dog attacking his tail is about as accurate an overview as possible to the current,
I appreciate Sam's position but all five's conduct does not in any way convey the kind of leadership we so desperqtely need right now or in the near future.
Did you by chance read Tom Freel B.S. "Nasty People" at his site about poor Ann Samuelson Having to sell her business, as he seems to convey, protect her business's employees from attacks because of her decisions?
My information is that is pure rubbish.
Maybe she will fess-up before the pacts preded her on that on but, again, just more reinforcement of the perception that prevails about that crowd at the moment.
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