Dispatch:
A charter-school treasurer who has been ordered to repay more than $600,000 in public money has lost his job at one local charter, and another plans to fire him on Tuesday.
Carl W. Shye Jr. of New Albany still was employed at two Columbus charter schools, FCI Academy and Patriot Preparatory Academy, last week when the state auditor announced the latest findings against Shye for misspending taxpayer money. That case took the total Shye owes to $617,260, according to records kept by the auditor's office.
Garey L. Lewis, superintendent of FCI Academy, said today that Shye’s job was terminated on Friday. He said it wasn’t related to the auditor’s findings. The Near East Side school just wanted a full-time treasurer who will be based at the school, Lewis said....
Carl W. Shye Jr. of New Albany still was employed at two Columbus charter schools, FCI Academy and Patriot Preparatory Academy, last week when the state auditor announced the latest findings against Shye for misspending taxpayer money. That case took the total Shye owes to $617,260, according to records kept by the auditor's office.
Garey L. Lewis, superintendent of FCI Academy, said today that Shye’s job was terminated on Friday. He said it wasn’t related to the auditor’s findings. The Near East Side school just wanted a full-time treasurer who will be based at the school, Lewis said....
I hope that there are further investigations. It would be good if the taxpayers were repaid.
* Chairman of the Republican National Party, Rience Priebus compared President Obama with the captain of the cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy. This was completely inappropriate.
* Congressman Alan West, a Republican, made a weird comment about Democrats and President Obama.
HuffingtonPost:
...Speaking to a Lincoln Day Dinner in West Palm Beach for the Palm Beach County GOP, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) fired off a humdinger of a line that within minutes drew recriminations from Democrats on Twitter.
"We need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, (audience boos) and my dear friend the chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table," West said. "Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America."
West, as I mentioned is a Republican. Really. Personally, I hope that Mr. West loses his next election because somehow he forgot he represents all his constituents, not just the members of his own party. By the way, as a Democrat, I'm not leaving.
* Catholic bishops came out strongly against the new health care law which says that all employers must pay for women's birth control. A letter to parishioners that was written by bishops was read in churches across the country. Needless to say, people were shocked at the tone of the letter. It is fair to say that many Catholic women use birth control pills and having it covered by their employers would be a real plus. The problem with the Catholic hierarchy is that it is composed of men. Do the bishops think it is okay that health insurance pays for male enhancement drugs?????
>>>> Republican Mitt Romney's solution to immigration problems is something called "self-deportation." That is Romney's answer to the Dream Act. Somehow Romney and his "self-deportation" plan sound incredibly stupid.
*** Crazy Gov. Chris Christie's idea that Civil Rights should have been put to a referendum. Christie is an idiot. Christie thinks that we should be able to vote which groups of people should have civil rights???? Maybe New Jersey voters could have a referendum on weight restrictions for their governor? Huffington Post has the story and comments from many people about Christie's idea.
>>> Rachel Maddow just said that the Republican "chickens for checkups" candidate, Sue Lowden of Nevada (see 2010 story from HuffPost ).