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December 07, 2006 03:11 AM UTC
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missed the opportunity to avoid the November 7th debacle by ignoring the warnings of a good number of folks, including Auditor Gallagher, Councilwoman Rosemary Rodriguez and others. I’m sure his blue ribbon committee/commission/assemblage of brighter minds than those who warned him up to two years ago that an election “tsunami” was inevitable will do a right fine job in allowing him to slip-slide (there’s that teflon, again) past any responsibility for ignorning warning, after warning, after warning.
Go Hick! (Yeah, I know, it ain’t your job, man!)
IT ISN’T HIS JOB! The mayor appoints ONE person to the DEC. The public can’t have both a “don’t interfere” and a “hands on” mayor regards the election commission.
Why is this so hard to comprehend?
I was living in LA when the Rodney King riots etc took place. One of the fallouts was a reversal in the city charter back to pre-1933 LA. Before then, the police chief was pretty much in the pocket of the politicians. So, it was changed. Sixty years later people screamed for more direct oversight of the police chief, so they changed the charter. I’ll but not 5% of the voters understood why the charter was the way it was.
Hickenlooper claiming that he had no control over the Denver Election Commission has to be taken with a large grain of salt. He had no problem forcing the Commission to accept a completely inappropriate warehouse facility, when it suited his political needs.
From today’s Rocky Mountain News:
‘Election Commissioner Sandy Adams complained in a September e-mail to colleagues that the Hickenlooper administration was “cramming that warehouse down our throats.” ‘
Full story:
http://www.rockymoun…
The problem is, Hick really didn’t care about problems at the DEC until after the election. The fact is, he could have responded to the repeated warnings if he wanted to. The BS about not having authority looks like a bald-faced lie when you consider how he got his way with the warehouse.
You cannot see the difference? The warehouse issue has to do with FACILITIES, not overseeing the commission. The mayor and his staff are responsible for FACILITIES and make appropriate decisions.
Quarterbacking is a hell of lot easier on Monday morning, isn’t it?
Sandy Adams said the warehouse was being rammed down their throuts. That is telling the commission what to do. There is no difference between telling the commission what to do with regard to leasing of facilities and forcing the commission to accept IT or any other help in preparing for the election or what poll book to buy or anything else.
The lease for the warehouse is between the election commission and the developer, it is not between the administration and the developer. the commission was forced to accept the lease to get hickenlooper and huggins off the hook for a loan that was going bad.
If Hickenlooper really didn’t have any control over the commission, the commission would never have accepted the lease.
Holy Cow, that is control.
The D.E.C. is independent and autonomous, right? Perhaps two of three commissioners cannot be fired by the mayor, but does the commission have the authority to set its own budget, set salaries for paid staff, lease space (like the notorious leaky warehouse), levy taxes to fund the commission, pay its staff salaries and pay rent? I suspect not.
The mayor and the city council retain the power of hte purse over the D.E.C. With that power goes responsibility for the screw up……
And I’m mad at that sleazebucket Gallagher for using it.
Maybe he’ll call the next deficiency he sends out mega press releases on a “holocaust”?
It’s goddamn offensive hyperbole like that that gives Gallagher a bad name.
what happened on election day?
This is a case of the incompetent hiring the incompetent.
This is a case of the incompetent hiring the incompetent.
Incompetent double poster.
I think that you mean incompetent single poster. You have already proved that you are a very competent double poster
I didn’t want him to quit, I wanted him to fix it! However, I suppose if he felt he couldn’t handle the task, it’s best he get out now.
The major problem now is that the Commission is once again looking for a director less than 6 months before an election. This is how we got Gaydeski to begin with.
It’ll even be harder this time because there will be a new administration of the Commission in July, even if the Commission keeps its current structure. That will discourage a lot of potentially good candidates from applying for the job.
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I just sent out this press release:
DENVER – Today we learned of the resignation of John Gaydeski as the Executive Director of the Denver Election Commission.
I must express my disappointment with this development. I would have preferred for him to see this through and make the corrections he promised to make. However, since he apparently does not believe he is capable of keeping this promise, I suppose it is best he leave sooner rather than later.
My greatest annoyance comes from the fact that the Commissioners will now need to divert their attention from fixing the multitude of shortfalls in their agency to finding a new Executive Director. And given the current uncertainty of the future of the Commission itself, as well as the Executive Director’s position, finding a qualified candidate for the position will be all that more difficult.
Karen Morrissey, Candidate for
Denver Election Commission
What Election Management experience do you have? What IT expereince do you have? What management skills do you posess? The jury is still out on who I will support for this position, and I thought I’d take this opportunity to ask. Thank you!
I was the supply (supervising) election judge for my home precinct, 208, for nearly a decade. This last election, I was an official observer (“poll watcher”) for the Democratic party at the Harvey Park Rec. Center voting location on election day, was well as at the commission itself after hours and on Nov. 8.
In 1996, I filed a constitutional challenge — and subsequently won — to throw out “scarlet letter” laws, which place derogatory statements on election ballots to punish officeholders who do not support certain positions. I got the General Assembly to undo a quiet change to petition process deadlines that made it effectively impossible to challenge an incorrect declaration of sufficiency by the Secretary of State.
I’ve been in the IT business for almost 30 years. For AT&T Bell Labs, I worked on 5ESS, the Audix voice mail system, and the Definity PBX line. I developed network analysis techniques used in Geographic Information Systems for utility companies, particularly Alberta Government Telephone, New England Electric, and US West. For the last 6 years, I’ve worked at Great-West Life, keeping terabyte-sized financial database applications running 24/7. I also introduced and support document scanning and image processing operations that are use to feed automated, paperless workflow processing.
I don’t manage by profession, but I have created and managed nonprofit corporations such as LambaCom, which produces Colorado Outspoken (formerly The Lamba Report) for KBDI TV 12. I’ve also directed studio and remote television programming, which involved live, simultaneous coordination of about a dozen crewmembers.
He has agreed to stay to get us through the municipal elections and any run-offs that may be needed. Now the question will be who will hire the new Director, the current Commissioners or the people elected in May, or (if we change the structure) the person elected in November?
By driving down turnout in Denver Gaydeski elected Mike Coffman. Coffman should show his gratitude and hire him. I know that the claim is only 18,000 votes were lost. Far more than that were lost. Working people cannot miss work or pay for extra child care in order to wait in a line for three hours. Way to go Gaydeski.
He’s unlikely to hire a failed director of the DEC.
We have the Clerk and Recorder, the Election Director and the head IT guy having resigned, and at least one of the Election Commissioners who has stated that she will not run again.
This leaves 19 employees, and one uncommitted election commissioner, if I haven’t missed any of the announcements.
The latest development is a special meeting of City Council on Monday afternoon for them the be advised about the time line necessary to have a special election about replacing Rosemary Rodriquez and placing the ballot question concerning the fate of the Election Commission before the voters.
Apparently Council is interested in having a special election on Jan. 30th.
So stayed tune.
I can see it now – a total system meltdown by the election commission for an election about replacing the election commission…
And that is a rather big IF at this point. If it happens, it will almost have to be a mail-ballot election. There is simply not enough time to make all the arrangements to have polling places set up by then.
I dislike mail ballot elections for reasons I have mentioned here before, but I do serve their purpose, like in cases like this.
Traditionally, mail ballot elections have high turn-out so, at least, the decision will be made by the most voters. I only worry because mail ballot elections also have the largest percentage of disenfranchisement (except maybe Nov. 7, 2006).
which will require a special election in her district. Council might as well run a city-wide election on the question of the abolishing the DEC and replacing with a clerk at the same time. Then if it passes the clerk could be elected in May with all the other municipal electeds.
This is what happened in 2001 when Sue Casey left City Council and a special election was required to fill her seat (Charlie Brown won). That election was expanded to a city-wide election with some charter changes.
If this all occurs it will be a mail ballot.
Otherwise, ppl. should start getting in line now……
They need to be updating their voter registration addresses if they have moved in the past few years and chaged it yet. Otherwise they won’t get a ballot.
He took responsibility and resigned. He may not have been up to the job but unlike alomst every other political appointee who has not been, he has accepted responsibility and done the right thing.
You can’t ask for more than that. Kudos to Gaydeski.
“I’m living in this line
I know my place, could think of no way
Of edging along in a loser’s race
The line was moving slowly
Day by night
Everybody’s shuffling on to keep a place in the line
Nine long years I’ve been in line
Getting nowhere there is no reason
For this line I don’t care
Everybody’s standing in the burning sun
Everybody’s shuffling on keeping a place in the line
Don’t you think we’re gonna make it
We’ve got a place in line
We’re gonna make it some time
Somehow”
Guesses?
“Place in Line”
“I know my place, could think of no way
Of edging along in a loser’s race
The line was moving slowly
Day by night
Everybody’s shuffling on to keep a place in the line”
Great lyrics.
were alright…….
That song is only good at no less than 3/4 volume…..