June 16, 2009 10:04 PM UTC

My lunch with Jim

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• by: DavidThi808

So I was scheduled to have lunch with Bill Ritter’s Chief of Staff Jim Carpenter today. So let’s look at how this timed out:

11:55 – arrive 5 minutes early

12:00 – no Jim Carpenter, and parking is available

12:05 – ok, we’re past fashionably late

12:10 – ok, we’re past politely late

12:15 – I hope he wasn’t in a car accident

12:20 – Still no word, head back to work

12:28 – Call from him – “just arrived.”

On a personal note Jim, if you are running way late, and you have the person’s phone number – call them! Work is very busy, making a profit in this economy is a bitch, and a phone call would have been… what’s the word… oh yeah – polite.

With that said, I guess I should not have found this surprising. With the notable exception of Evan Dryer every person I have had contact with in the Ritter administration has had the same approach to people. Why talk to the riff-raff.

And a suggestion to Bill Ritter. If your staff scheduled meetings with the legislators, then didn’t bother to show up, but had intended to tell them you would veto a bill – that doesn’t count as telling them.

ps – He had my cell number, I did not have his.