Stuckey stays
After being passed over as Hamilton County Administrator, assistant administrator Eric Stuckey decided today he didn't want to be the city manager for Winston-Salem, N.C.
Stuckey, far right above, flew Saturday to the North Carolina city of about 200,000 after he was declared one of five finalists for the job.
But after The Enquirer called Stuckey today to ask about him possibly leaving, he called the Winston-Salem officials and removed his name from consideration.
"I don't think it's the right thing for me," Stuckey said today.
Stuckey, 39, of Anderson Township, earned an undergraduate degree from Miami University and a masters in public administration from the University of Kansas. The son of a Methodist minister, Stuckey grew up in the Dayton, Ohio, area and saw similarities between Dayton and Winston-Salem.
Stuckey, who served as acting administrator and was a finalist for the job that went to his boss, Hamilton County Administrator Patrick Thompson, said he was approached by a recruiter about going to North Carolina.
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Post a Comment*stuckey is an honest and brilliant man who should have been the county administrator after krings retired.( burke's obviously couldn't stomache the political games and harm being done by the majority on the BOCC)
i think stuckey has proven he can do the job without judgement, but the idea of being able to do it and agreeing was tempting.
where is the story on the $1 billion misappropriated by hcjfs, guys????
you could at least run the ap story, or aren't they credible?
i imagine craig is dying to get this one out of the draw and into print - but, the enq spin doctors haven't figure out how to buffer the good ole boys
I agree that Stuckey is an excellent administrator and would have done well in NC.
I also agree with the comment on where is the story in the Enquirer about a "missing $1 BILLION" from county coffers.
Makes the stadium thing look like chump change.
The Dean's got links to many stories about the $1 billion that went missing from 2001-2004 at the Department of Jobs and Family Services under Suzanne Burke's watch.
Dan Horn is supposed to be reporting the story.
Doesn't Dusty Rhodes have financial oversight over the county budget? Where's Dusty?
Remember a couple years ago when Dusty, Phil Heimlich, and Pat DeWine were in a fever to get David Krings fired? They went so far as to try to get Portune to sign off on the firing while Portune was in a hospital bed, after having just had spinal surgery. Why the rush?
Right after Dusty, Phil, and Pat forced out Krings, subpoenas started flying from the state auditors who had been made aware of the missing HCJFS loot.
What was Dusty doing by publicly calling for Krings to be fired then? Seems improper for the county auditor whose responsibility re: Krings would only have been to decide whether or not his salary was fair market value or not (which was the public excuse for firing Krings).
How does the county auditor not notice a billion dollar increase in federal money going to county programs in only three years?
Dusty's job was to catch the financial improprieties. He didn't. But he did trouble himself to try to fire the one guy who may have caught the money switcheroo.
Why would they all want to get rid of Krings so badly? Was Krings co-operating with the investigation? Was Krings the whistleblower?
Best case scenario? Dusty's incompetent. Other options are obvious.
Looks like we'll have to keep reading the Dispatch to find out what's going on in Hamilton County.
The Kane is going to drag our DINO auditor down some old dusty roads with his drive by reappraisals !!
dusty rhodes ( like many uncontested democrats [and republicans]) has a secure job and therefore doesn't have to work to keep it. and doesn't. i've begged him to look into county misappropriations via his power to "review" all tranactions and to withhold funds when transactions appear illegal - but, in fairness, county auditors are not specifically given the authority to "investigate" any financial improprities -- it is the state auditors job, exclusively. Talk to Betty and Petro and the Republican party in control
The money jockey auditor has been spinning things for so long it doesn't surprise me things would get pinned on someone else !!
Why do you think he goes uncontested !!
Backroom deals by the Xavier mafia !
Our courts for one auditor !
Parhetic !!
in fairness, county auditors are not specifically given the authority to "investigate" any financial improprities
Fine, but this doesn't answer why Dusty went out of his was to help oust Krings. You describe Rhodes as a do-nothing, so why did he rise to that particular occasion? Was he suddenly overtaken with the spirit of public service which required firing a county manager who by all accounts - including his replacement Patrick Thompson's - was an extremely capable county manager?
Perhaps Krings was a little too capable and the bad boys needed him out of that office and away from the records, but fast.
i'm not a fan of rhodes - i just said he didn't have the authority. personally, after he went to a pro-coast meeting with heimlich and chabot - i think the democratic party should pull his ticket and endorcement. if the boys are going to bargain for unconctested government seats - for god's sake - at least the dems should be putting a real democrat in the seats they are given!!
i find all these uncontested incumbants to be a disgrace to the democratic party and they should all be giving significant gratutites to the party and to contested campaigns for the generous positions they have been afforded.
where's the democratic governance of these stiffs?
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