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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Quid Pro Quo

We continue our look at the royal email chain, and this one is a doozy.

Does anyone remember the Emperor's warm endorsement of Bill Ferrara as a wonderful principal who would make a fine superintendent some day?

It's backed up by this email.

-----Original Message-----
From: bill hellmann [mailto:bill hellmann cpa@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:55 AM
To: Heater, Gloria
Cc: bill hellmann
Subject: RE: engineering services, high school boilers
i am the one that stirs the drink. if i sit there, yonson's spending
will kill this town. she has two puppet board members that do whatever
she tells them, and the TINY pro-schoolers crew. ha ha ha! they are all
sand pounders. ha ha ha !
one by one they are either leaving or being replaced. soon, yonson will
be by herself. i have been talking to bill farrara and i like him and
so do other board members. he likes the consolidation we are talking
about (tuitioning out). i assured him we will always need a super and
at least one principal.
i know i am not polite at the meetings. i will work on that and try to
be more patient and respectful to the other fools. my problem is i
have little patience for incompetence and i am surrounded by those
types of people up there.

That, my friends, is a "quid pro quo". You support my tuitioning out scheme and I'll make sure you have a job.

You've seen the quid pro quo in action most recently in Illinois as Gov. Rod Blagojevich was impeached for his attempt to sell the open U.S. Senate seat previously occupied by Barack Obama. You make a donation to me, I'll get a Senate seat for you.

I have only heard and seen good things with Mr. Ferrara, which is what makes this all the more tragic. Roland Burris, from all accounts, is a good man too.

It's also clear that they shortened Dr. Yonson's contract from five to three years "safe" in the knowledge that the Emperor had already identified her successor.

To our readers outside of the Morrisville area: Our apologies for putting on such a good show. It makes us look like a bunch of rubes who couldn't govern an ice cream truck without help. But if our bad example stops you from committing the same mistakes, you're welcome.

Parents and friends: If this does not make you think twice about what "keep on track" means, then I'm not sure what will. Keep on track is a vote for Hellmann and everything he has done.
Posted by Save The School at 9:35 AM
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3 comments:

Jon said...

Hellmann's arrogant "I am the one that stirs the drink" remark harks back to baseball's Reggie Jackson in 1977, his 1st year with the New York Yankees.

The relationship between Jackson and his new teammates was immediately strained due to an interview with SPORT magazine writer Robert Ward during 1977 spring training, before the regular season even started. Jackson and Ward were having drinks at a nearby bar. Jackson's version of the story is that he noted that the Yankees had won the pennant the year before, but lost the World Series to the Reds, and suggested that they needed one thing more to win it all, and pointed out the various ingredients in his drink. Ward suggested that Jackson might be "the straw that stirs the drink."

But when the story appeared in the May 1977 issue of SPORT, Ward quoted Jackson as saying, "This team, it all flows from me. I'm the straw that stirs the drink. Maybe I should say me and [Yankees catcher Thurman] Munson, but he can only stir it bad."

Jackson has consistently denied saying anything negative about Munson in the interview and that his quotes were taken out of context. However, Dave Anderson of the New York Times subsequently wrote that he had drinks with Jackson in July 1977, and that Jackson told him, "I'm still the straw that stirs the drink. Not Munson, not nobody else on this club."

With Jackson, the Yankees won the 1977 and 1978 World Series, then didn't make it to the series in 1979 and 1980, then lost the 1981 World Series. He then left the Yankees for the California Angels, then Oakland A's, retiring in 1987 without playing in another World Series. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993.

With 2,597, Reggie Jackson is Major League Baseball's ALL-TIME STRIKEOUT leader.

Although he may be even more arrogant and egomaniacal than Reggie Jackson, Bill Hellmann has much less to back it up with. In fact, HE'S NOT EVEN IN THE SAME LEAGUE.

May 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM
Ken said...

WARNING!!!!

If you are planning a summer picnic, or a friendly outing, or a gathering in the park, make certain you invite Marlys Myhok.

If not, you are likely to get a whiney attack of "Why Wasn't I Invited?"

It really does not matter if it would make sense for her to be invited or not, like, say to a family reunion (does she even belong to any family?). She would insist on being invited anyway.

But, if you had thought to invite her in the first place, say, to a picnic in Williamson Park, and ask that she contribute by bringing along a potato salad or such, she would likely show up empty handed, and still insist on participating in the three legged race, while commandeering the softball game.

Your only hope is that your gathering will be rained out, otherwise Marlys will ruin your party like a wet beach blanket.

May 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Jon said...

Well la-dee-frickin'-da! I live in a van down by the river!

May 4, 2009 at 4:03 PM

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