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wonteach

Gilbert's employment with CSN ended about a year ago. (That's not a rumor; I know it for a fact.)

I'm all for consolidation, and it should almost certainly save some money. But not much! It is a simple fact, that both Democrats and Republicans continually lie to us about, that we will need to either raise taxes or substantially reduce the number and scope of government services if state and local governments are to avoid complete bankruptcy. The Democrats constantly lie about how much government programs will cost, and Republicans continually tell the same lie by looking at the opposite side of the same coin: they claim that taxes can be reduced (or tax increases avoided) without a noticeable reduction in government services.

I have always thought of Nevada as just the place I happen to live. It's never occurred to me to think, "I'm proud to be a Nevadan."

But today, I am.

The big difference in legal status in Clark County is not black vs. white. It's the political in-crowd vs. everyone else. Bob Gilbert has many defenders among the political in-crowd. Why do you think he was paid a six-figure salary at taxpayer expense while on a leave of absence that I believe extended for more than a year? Do you think an ordinary faculty member, or a secretary, at CSN would be given the same deal while under investigation for stealing from the school?

Any person, black or white, with connections to the power structure in Clark County, will be given every benefit of every doubt. (S)he will get government contracts, makework jobs, and be handled with kid gloves by the law enforcement people. Anyone without those connections - black, white, Hispanic or Asian, male or female - watch your back.

On another website, I posted a question about whether ANY employee (other than Bob Gilbert) in the history of CSN/CCSN had ever received a one year PAID leave of absence, for any purpose. So far, no one seems to know of any such case, and several people have declared their certainty that there ARE no other such cases. Even when we allow for the the fact that the CSN administration became an ethical sewer the moment Richard Carpenter set foot on campus, the granting of such a unique (and expensive) privilege to an employee who was under criminal investigation seems inexplicable.