Not only did Ewing start off his tenure on the board with a rant against the campus newspaper, The Chart, Friday, but he recently showed little regard for the press or the public in his handling of the murder of two Nevada girls. Apparently, when Ewing does not want to deal with the media or the public, he just takes the phone off the hook, as noted by Joplin Globe Editor Carol Stark in a May 28 blog post. After the police and coroner referred all calls to Ewing, the prosecutor took the easy way out, according to Mrs. Stark's blog:
We have certain questions about the stabbing murders of 14-year-old Kylie Leyva and Anne Reed that the autospsy might answer and readers have been calling wanting more details. Officials have been particularly close-mouthed about this case in which Garrett Mason, a 17-year-old male teen has been arrested and charged with two murders.
Finally, late Thursday, (reporter Jeff) Lehr gets through to a clerk in another office, trying to get a message to Ewing. That’s when we learn that in the middle of one of the more horrific murders in recent history in Vernon County, the prosecutor’s office has had its phone off the hook.
And this is the man Jay Nixon appointed to the board. The last thing the university needed was another lawyer with visions of grandeur.
6 comments:
Why does the MSSU board have to contain so many lawyers? Why doesn't the Governor appoint more hard working common folk?
Probably because hard-working common folk can't afford to make campaign contributions.
My god we are starting to figure out what it takes to get appointed - and why so many lawyers who are involved in politics get on the board - and then they seem able to intimidate the board memebers who are just fruit guys or whatever you know the jock or the board (jockstrap)
It's obvious that his only qualification for the board was he was the closest Democrat to Joplin. Does he have any ties to Southern at all?
He said he was asked to serve by Jane Wyman, a former Southern board member and fellow lawyer. So again, a jerk recommended by another.
OK, think. Is there any chance (in Hell, maybe) that anyone would want to be on the board right now? Unless DD or the so-called "Fedora'd One" encouraged them? Of course not! Only a sycophant would even consider it.
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