The Toledo law director and the No. 2 lawyer for the city had their jobs switched yesterday by the Finkbeiner administration - which insisted the shuffle was a "lateral move."
John Madigan - who in January, 2006, was named acting law director and installed permanently in the post at the end of that year - is now general counsel for the city.
Adam Loukx was promoted from general counsel to law director.
Many of the top officials under Mayor Carty Finkbeiner were silent yesterday on the demotion and promotion.
During his first two terms as mayor, from 1994 through 2001, at least 15 senior staff members left city hall citing differences with Mr. Finkbeiner - beginning with then-police Chief Marti Felker, who resigned Jan. 1, 1994, saying the mayor would not "discuss the issues" of how best to provide police protection.
Other notable resignations included those of:
•Carolyn Wiley, who quit in April, 1994, as the mayor's administrative assistant after just two weeks saying she "felt like a whipped puppy" after the mayor called her into his office and berated her over a "typographical error."
•John Mattimoe, who resigned as law director three months later citing the mayor's temper tantrums "against members of my staff."
•John Alexander, chief of staff who cited personal differences with the mayor when he opted for a lower-paying job with Lucas County in June, 1996.
•G. Ray Medlin, Jr., who quit as the city's development director in January, 2000, after just 39 days on the job. He said he felt hemmed in by the bureaucratic structure of city government.
But reports of tension and difficult encounters between the mayor and Mr. Medlin suggested Mr. Finkbeiner's behavior played a role in Mr. Medlin's departure.
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Lets look at this from a working person's point of view. If you and a co worker flipped jobs, and your annual pay was cut by $4000, and your co worker's annual salary was increased by $6000 - would you consider your trade a "lateral move" or did you just get demoted??
Did your co worker just flip jobs with you, or was he promoted, both in title and in pay grade?
Welcome to the coven Ms Phillips. Your first public announcement was just another BS lie from your owner. Get used to it - you'll be ordered to lie to the public often. Lets hope because you speak it publicly you never get hit with a slander suit.
Madigan may have stood up to Carty on something and got slammed.
there's certainly a pattern that'd back that idea up...
I can hear it now... 'Um... Mr Mayor... Um... that latest plan of yours just might have the teeniest tiniest problem. It's... um... Well, it's illegal - you can't do that...
YOU LITTLE #$%^&, YOU'RE @#$%^&* FIRED!!!!!! (As the coffe cup crashes into his forehead...) And the mayor hires 5 more out of town people to do a study...
I do not know what occurred in this situation but I think that it is sad that a transient elected official can demote or fire anyone. All cities need to rethink allowing the Mayor of the city to have complete control over the skilled, professional, non-unionized employees. I think as a rule, most mayors are good speakers with magnetic personalities. Because they are good politicians does not mean they are good leaders or make good decisions. A good Mayor allows the experienced and educated employees to make the important decisions, talks over the decision to make sure he or she is well aware of the decision and understands why the decision was made, then sits back and takes credit for a well-run city. A great leader surrounds him-self with individuals that do not agree with everything he says. A tyrannical and controlling leader surrounds himself or herself with individuals that think only what they are told to think and do only what they are told to do.
A dude in Nazi Germany about 64 years ago fit the description in your last sentence, Vicki Gulch.
Hope we dont face another lawsuit or out of court settlement here.
And since both the complainant and the defendant would be City of Toledo employees, we the taxpayers would get to pay for both the defense AND the prosecution!!
AGAIN!!!
The description that fits Hitler also fits the mayor of Toledo and the mayor of Oregon, Ohio.
starling02, your words have made me go onto websites to study the similarities. I'm wondering what I'm going to find.
Between a person who over saw the deaths of so many people, my step mom was from Germany and she came here in 1938 and spoke of the horrors, and a Mayor in the mid west.
There are many leaders who have acted the same, but to compare a city Mayor, to a mass murderer seems a bit out of place.
Like the Mayor or not, the two are not even close.
I was told that Carty made a statement on one of the TV stations that he was delaying capital projects in the City because of pending lawsuits. I didn't see the broadcast to know if he said this. Did anyone hear the broadcast? If so what TV Station and day? If he did say this, what do capital projects have to do with lawsuits. The City has insurance for such things.