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11 Comments
That’s who should have checked his references….but those three should have done a lot of things they didn’t do.
Under the current structure of the DEC, it is the Director who does the hiring. This person is supposed to have the management experience equivalent to this task.
The only person who the Commissioners hire is the manager.
2 Commissioners are elected and 1 is appointed to run our election, bottom line. They failed, and failed miserably. The buck stops with our leaders and they should be held accountable.
The IT guy is on admin. leave and will likely be fired. The Director who hired him has already been fired.
Futhermore, the Commissioners’ terms themselves are up in May. One is definitely not running for re-election and I don;t think the other should either. But, we the voters have the opportunity to replace even if they do run again.
and the commissioners fired for hiring an incompetent director. They failed miserably at their core job.
Karen Hatchett (no longer with the DEC) was the one who insisted upon Rainey. They go to the same church. Cronyism at its worst.
Apparently there were serious problems with Rainey’s job performance when he was with Denver Health Medical, but that didn’t stop him from moving on to the DEC and wreaking even more havoc.
Like most politicians, it appears that the elected and appointed commissioners are lousy managers when it comes to doing the most critical part of their jobs, hiring smart, honest and nice people.
This guy doesn’t look smart, honest nor nice, not to mention competent.
Read the letters to the editor in the Rocky this morning. They say he blew it on the simplest parts of his job, software evaluation and quality assurance. And he blew it when it came to managing the sofware vendor. I’m betting DEC will sue the software vendor, but I’m not a lawyer and don’t know if a suit would be appropriate.
I’m laying odds very heavily that people will call me racist for saying this, but are we dealing with an affirmative action hire and the board’s refusal to fire him for fear of being charged with racial discrimination? Did his race get him the job and allow him to keep it despite his many failures and his misleading resume, or what?
I’m not a racist. I’m an objective observer who has no stake in this in any way except that I believe in good government and honest governance by boards of directors and their immediate reports. That I feel I have to say I’m not a racist says so much about the times in which we live.
This looks like a fiasco from so many perspecitves.
Very sad.
Don’t know if race had anything to do with the hiring of this guy, but no matter why he was hired, it was a mistake. A huge mistake on both parties; his padding of his own resume and the board. It’s time to clean house, and fix the DEC within the next few months.
They have a lot to get done in the next year, so no need to waste time. We need more Vote Centers, more voting machines, more voter awareness of Absentee voting and Early voting.
Political connections (cronyism) often get one further than a resume or statute-mandated preferences. Rainey attended Karen Hatchett’s church. Hatchett insisted he be hired. It’s a case of connections and cronyism, not preferences.
Hatchett is gone–she was eased out in January, and hung on for a few more months as a “consultant” for the vote center changeover, which was her baby. She is escaping a lot of the criticism, though the bulk of the problems she left behind were due to her bullheadedness and failure to listen to peole whe really did know what they were talking about.
I would imagine that in addition to Rainey, a head will also roll in HR, for not thoroughly checking Rainey’s background and references.
There are plenty of PHBs and incompetents in the tech world. Sadly, the business people want others who are business friendly, so they do not bother to check the potential hiree (sp) capability.