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Bad vetting runs in the family
Here's something fun from the Branchflower report. It's been reported in the press as a footnote elsewhere but I'm a big fan of irony.
For details I won't bore you with here, the Palins finally decided in June 2008 that Walt Monegan had to go. Charles Kopp, currenlty working for the city of Kenai, Alaska, gets a call on a Wednesday, in which he's asked if he wants to be the new Commissioner of Public Safety. He applied for it back in November 2006, so they had his application on file, presumably.
He says he's still interested, so yes. That call is Wednesday; they have him up in Anchorage for a meeting Thursday; Monegan's fired and Kopp's hired on Friday.
He resigns 15 days later. When he was police chief of Kenai, he was reprimanded for sexual misconduct. they never bothered to actually check up on him. Or "vet" him, if you will.
Whirlwind staffing decision shown to be drastically wrong due to lack of proper vetting. The parallel highly amuses me.
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