Re: Dear Mayor Leighton -- Wilkes-Barre Now! II

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Date Posted: 16:33:41 07/14/04 Wed
Author: anonymous?
Subject: Re: Dear Mayor Leighton
In reply to: Shame 's message, "Dear Mayor Leighton" on 05:26:56 07/14/04 Wed

>The reason i decided to comment on this article was
>because i am assuming that a fireman or a relative of
>one had to send it in who else would even know about
>who is involved. MY OPINION!!
>I recently read a post that a CAPT. BILL said not to
>call the firemen babies...well how come some of you
>are sure the hell acting like one?
>"Please promote two of your fire captains"Oh how
>sweet!!! What makes them so more qualified?
>Experience? Seems to me most of the firemen have
>experience, some more than others and they are
>privates.The qualifications didn't state that you had
>to be a CAPTAIN to qualify just experience!!!!!
>"Please don't pull a McGroarty and promote a private
>who is not qualified but a friend of the
>administration's!!!!"
>Give me a frickin break, show me one person that
>hasn't had contact with one if not more of the
>administration and just because of that you have to
>condem them? If i recall i was around for the election
>of our Mayor and i seemed to remember that there were
>a great deal of firemen who got involved some were a
>little hesitant at first but then they sure jumped on
>the band wagon when the primary was over. Weren't you
>one of them? So don't hand me that bull sh-- about
>being a friend!!!!THAT'S A POOR EXCUSE!!!! What's the
>matter didn't your high profile person help you out
>this time? Maybe we shouldn't have contact with people
>in politics or hold a position because it gets held
>against us.
>Before you people take shots at someone for doing
>something or getting involved with people you should
>take a good look at yourself first. If you ask me
>there is a lot of dirty laundry that involves the fire
>dept. men some who even are involved in the promotion
>and you have the nerve to keep shooting your mouth off.
>The biggest remark was " Please consider the morale of
>your whole fire dept." Oh now the morale? The morale
>has nothing to do with the promotion....The morale of
>the men was down so much when the old chief was on
>then when they appt. the new one the morale jumped
>up...Now the morale is back down because of not having
>enough men on shifts.So don't use that for another
>excuse why not to promote a private........I feel that
>no matter what goes on or who knows who, ALL the men
>should try and get along it's up to them alone to make
>the morale among themselves.
>So to all the people who have so much to say about the
>promotions get on already what's going to happen will
>happen and there is NOTHING you can do to change it!
>Why don't you spend your time and thoughts on
>something that will be useful in life!! As far as the
>firemen go i think you have enough problems and
>worries to keep hacking away at this and i'm sure you
>have had more than enough back stabbing among
>yourselves that you need to stick with saving lives
>rather than destroying them!!!!
Again, not too hard to figure out who is writing this, practice what you preach, think about it.

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Re: Dear Mayor Leighton -- anonymous?, 16:34:53 07/14/04 Wed