City Councilman Glynn Hines flat out says he "does not trust" Mayor Tom Henry to do the right thing in hriring enough African Americans. So, after voting against the fire department merit commission, he changed his mind and voted along with five other council members to override the mayor's veto of forming the commission:
Tuesday night City Council voted 6-3 to override Mayor Tom Henry's veto to establish a merit board for the city fire department. Hines, D-6th District, who spoke against the bill in August, cast the deciding vote to override the veto, saying he trusts the firefighters to make better minority hiring decisions than the Henry administration.
“This particular decision comes down to,
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Small world indeed, Leo, I think this guy was in my '69 graduating class at Central also, ...this is getting to be a reunion after all.
"Diversity" is liberal code for discrimination using racial and ethnic quotas. First invented by Justice Lewis Powell in the 1978 Bakke case challenging affirmative action, the concept was and remains vacuous ...but we have spent billions of taxpayer dollars to promote it.
Racism raised its ugly head in Fort Wayne politics when a Democrat black liberal challenged the veracity and fairness of a Democrat white liberal.
Has Karl Rove been in town?.
MY wife got an earful from me over this absurd commentary by Mr. Hines.
Screw diversity (for diversity sake). I'd MUCH rather have ANYONE who IS TOTALLY QUALIFIED putting out MY fire, catching the criminals on MY street, or acting it whatever capacity on behalf of the city making MY tax money worth something.
But then...I'm "old school" (let your EXPERIENCE and INTEGRITY speak for you - not the color of your skin, or what church you go to)
;)
B.G.