The most disturbing thing about the Highway Patrol report, other than the bile-inducing visual it creates of an old man’s slobber on a young woman’s cheek, is the fact that some people interviewed for the report obviously lied to the investigators. As you read the report, you can tell that some of the patronage employees weren’t as smart as they thought they were with their CYA stories. You can picture one of Ferrell’s sycophantic bag handlers in his cubicle plotting a double-jump, not knowing that the lawmen are playing chess, not checkers. Checkmate!
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Combest: Obvious Ag Department bureaucrats lied to Highway Patrol
In a post today, blogger John Combest notes that the worst thing about the Missouri Highway Patrol report on sexual harassment charges against former Agriculture Director Fred Ferrell is that it was obvious some department bureaucrats played fast and loose with the truth:
How true. The show dog employee got caught in a lie on the follow up interview when the patrol confronted her with an email.
ReplyDeleteI also wondered if some of the witnesses got their heads together prior to their interviews to decide what they were going to say. Consequently we had more that one witness describing Fred as a Southern Gentleman. Yuk. Maybe that's his screen name when he cruises the Internet.
These are the kinds of lies that are perpetrated when you allow a bunch of empty headed women to have a little power. That's why I....uh, the Director was wisely keeping the show dogs away from the hunters.
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