Friday, December 13, 2013
"Bad" News Taken Down
A reader alleges that a link I posted yesterday contains malicious code. I did not receive any warnings from my security program about this. Conspiracy theorists might say the warning is to deter people from reading the linked article, as it is unflattering to a political figure. Go figure. I will be pursuing this issue, but meanwhile the link is off the blog.
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I had no issue with any type of code.... Maybe the Noodler hadn't gotten permission from Jerry to put it up on his blog yet?? Simply cause it wasn't local fluff news, I can imagine anything of substance that might be deemed negative has to go through Jerry now...
ReplyDeleteNot alleged, did, but chuckle, no conspiracy...
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't characterize the tone of the article as unflattering, but maybe inquiring...certainly relevant to Plainfield
it does lend some credibility to the need for a chief-of-staff or such
November 25, 2013
Job Status Questioned after Mapp Elected Plainfield’s Mayor
By: Chris Sykes - Staff Writer
ORANGE — Election Day is finished, but there are still lingering issues from it related to the city of Orange Township that need to be resolved.
One of those issues is the fact that Orange’s director of finance, Adrian Mapp, is now the mayor-elect of Plainfield. That means he was running for office in that city while he was working “full time” as Orange’s director of finance.
And this also begs the question, now that Mapp has been elected mayor of Plainfield, how he is going to continue working full time in Orange as the director of finance. In light of the recent memo he issued on Thursday, Nov. 14, asking Orange employees to give back three days of paid holiday vacation time in order to help make ends meet in the city budget, his own employment status in Orange is now being questioned.
“Our ‘full-time’ director of finance, acting as the ‘full-time’ Orange business administrator, soon to be ‘full-time’ mayor of Plainfield, is asking hard-working employees of Orange to give up pay,” Bruce Meyer, a member of the Orange Citizens Budget Advisory Committee asked on Monday, Nov. 18. “He was not even able to confirm who was actually employed in Orange when testifying to the City Council a few months ago. If he was doing the job that Orange taxpayers were paying him for, instead of campaigning in Plainfield, we might not be in this financial situation.”
Orange City Council President Donna K. Williams agreed with Meyer. She said whether anyone wants to call Mapp’s current employment situation in the city right or wrong is beside the point.
What matters, Williams said, is that his employment status needs to be either clarified or corrected as soon as possible, because jobs and the lives that revolve around them in Orange are at stake and the holiday season is fast-approaching.
“There is no change in Mr. Mapp’s employment status to date,” Williams said via text message on Monday, Nov. 18. “However, he is acting business administrator until the mayor puts up a permanent person, which must be done 90 days from the notice of his appointment. That was approximately four weeks ago.”
Warren’s chief of staff, Willis Edwards III, said the council members were once again politicizing an issue that isn’t really about politics at all. Edwards previously had other positions in the administration, first as the acting business administrator and then deputy business administrator, so he knows firsthand what it is like to move from one job and title in the city government to another.
Edwards also knows what it is like to get flak from the council members for working two jobs at once — one in the city and another outside. He previously acknowledged to having worked as the full-time acting director of curriculum development and new programs for Essex County College in Newark, while he was also working full-time as Warren’s appointed acting business administrator and then deputy business administrator.
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Edwards said having two full-time jobs simultaneously did not stop him from doing the best job he possibly could for Orange and its taxpayers. He said the bottom line is the city needs qualified, competent people such as Mapp who can get the job done, regardless of whether they are only working one or more jobs at the same time.
“Mapp’s position as mayor of Plainfield, as was his position as a councilman in that city, is his public service,” Edwards said on Monday, Nov. 18. “His professional job is that of director of finance. The position of mayor of Plainfield is a part-time position. We commend him on his commitment to his community and ours.”
Had no problem with the link and it was relevant. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the Plainfield Today Blog will become an echo chamber of the incoming administration. I suspect we shall see improvement from the current administration, but I am not convinced this or the incoming administration will do much to improve the economic conditions of the community until you hire qualified directors from our city and exclusively use vendors who advance Plainfield and not politicians.
ReplyDeleteSometimes security software will misidentify legitimate data as malware because it contains data patterns found in malware.
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