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Wanted: Incompetent Managers - Get Big Bucks in Hickenlooper Administration.
It appears this is the policy of Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Like the
befuddled business person who says he is going to save a money-losing product by
increasing sales volume, the Hickenlooper administration is rewarding
incompetent managers with more city contracts and taxpayer money.
In the Rocky story of Sept. 27, "City contract could go to former clerk/Vaden
called 'a logical person' to finish work," former Denver clerk and recorder Wayne Vaden, who was forced to
resign following the disastrously managed election of November 2006, has already
collected more than $57,000 in $150-an-hour consulting fees from the city,
including billing $150 for a single e-mail.
Was the subject of the consulting contract "How to Mismanage an Election,
Embarrass Denver and Jeopardize Citizens' Ability to Vote, All While Costing
Taxpayers a Fortune"? Maybe so, since Vaden is about to be awarded yet another
sweetheart contract by Hickenlooper.
It is the responsibility of Denver auditor Dennis Gallagher and the City Council
to audit the Vaden contracts and be more responsible as to the performance
record of those obtaining contracts from this administration. What other
contracts of this sort are we not aware of? How else is city money being
misappropriated?

Michael Burke, Denver

READER COMMENTS

am I every so happy that i dont live in denver and have to pay for the hick and his buddies who shaft the residents there and also promote all of the illigals.
Please come to Denver we need your money.

I paraphrase, but I think accurately; politicians promote themselves to their level of incompetence, always, if we allow it. And that incompetence is a highly contagious plague that rapidly spreads among all of their kind when they are elected to public offic

While it is true that this desease may be difficult to ascertain at times owing to the inconsistency of the intensity of outbreaks, it has been often observed that when they are exposed to money it exacerbates the symtoms and creates a overwhelming need to get all they can of it, much like a meth or heroine addict craves their drug of choice.

It is unclear if this is a genetical or environmentical caused condition but the first sign of infection appears to be a tendency toward intentional lying. This appears to be automatic, much like stuttering or a facial tic or spasm but, not so obvious as either.

The only way to prevent this disease from spreading is to remove the infected from office before it becomes endemic within the legislatures and offices they occupy.

I am expending every effort to get the AMA and the FDA to recognize this as the dangerous and debilitating desease it truely is and get the pharmaceutical companies to do the research and come up with a cure,

But I don't think I will succeed due to the fact that pharmaceutical companies are among the biggest spreaders around of money there is in legislatures and public official's offices . Maybe the way to cure the desease is to get rid of those who provide the money in the first place by prosecuting them as dangerous drug dealers.

Maybe the way to cure the desease is to get rid of those who provide the money in the first place by prosecuting .... or in the case of mrs bill clinton stop all of the busy boys and waiters in china town from making such large donations. why is it that the people in china town always make such large donations to anyone named clinton?

LOL Allen!! :-)
Several years ago, after studying the issue in detail, I concluded the water fountains at the Denver Public Schools admin building were contaminated.
Perfectly normal, sane human beings drink from the fountain, and are transformed into blind, corrupt, insensitive political figures who are unable to recall what Children are, much less their initial Mission to serve them.
How else to explain what happens once sincere, intended public servants enter the building?

Hickenlooper!!!!!

Get a Rope!

The dude is Dennis from Jurassic Park.

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