Jerry Hill recently made a compelling argument for voting for Jim Irizzary based on his stellar qualifications. Equally important is Irizarry’s proven ability to foster good working relationships. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Dave Canepa. His splenetic personality was on full display at a Board of Supervisors meeting last year where he launched a vitriolic character assassination against a fellow supervisor over a minor policy disagreement. His churlish behavior was beyond the pale. If he is willing to lose self-control with an equal in a public forum just think what he would do to subordinates.
We cannot afford a morale problem fostered by the chief elections officer nor a mass exodus at the County Assessor’s Office and we definitely don’t need a Corpus redux. I implore voters to cast their ballot for the vastly more qualified, more accomplished, better behaved, and even-tempered Jim Irizarry. After all, we should avoid problems when we have a much better option.
Hank, Boy do you have it backwards. Jim Irizarry is facing employee lawsuits as I write this. He received a no confidence VOTE of 2-1 in the offices he oversees based on many negative reasons, specifically for WASTING over $50M from making emotional decisions. Who knows best on how the three offices should operate? The employees who DO the WORK who overwhelmingly endorse Canepa !!!
Hey guest - Irizarry wants to crack the whip on these employees who are notoriously underperforming. They fear that they may be asked to start working again. They prefer Canepa because he loves the status quo at the tax payers' detriment. Why in the world would you have employees select their managers? If Bezos had listened to his employees, Amazon would have gone under a long time ago. The labor unions are against Irizarry and that alone should qualify him.
Dirk - You have no idea what happened and is happening right now. What used to take one employee 5 minutes to get a value into the old database now takes 4 - 8 "man" hours and must pass through a team of people. The paper work for appraisals is two or three times what the State requires.
What makes you think that Canepa can solve that? He has no clue whatsoever. Who is responsible for the change in the data base? Was the change required for registry security or integrity reasons? And, is he aware or wants to ignore the problem? Also, is he a supporter of the Dominion cartel? In any case, having worked there during the voting season I found it very intimidating and seemingly haphazard. Again, what would Canepa bring to the table? He would simply dance to a tune set for him.
Canepa is willing to investigate buying the database that over 30 Counties are happily using right now for $500k. Canapa has read the Srate Manual and pledged to follow it. That alone will cut the cost of running the office by 10% in year one.
Against the advice of the staff who has computer engineers on it, Irizarry decided that a database for sales companies was best for a gover ment agency that does basuc math and basic property characteristics. $50,000,000 dollars and wasteful overtime every year against staff advice has been Jim's continued course.
Hilarious. Hey guest[code to crack your phone?] (dunno why you change from Guest876589 to this onerous one), you say Irizarry received a no confidence vote in the office he oversees and yet, per Mr. Huenings’s LTE (https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/irizarry-and-taso/article_b67ab780-3a9c-41c3-8c05-445de9571905.html) Canepa’s fellow supervisors endorse Irizarry. Why not Canepa? And seriously, in this day and age of lawfare, who isn’t subject to lawsuits, frivolous or not?
Perhaps Canepa’s fellow supervisors, along with everyone else, realize Canepa has no experience whatsoever in assessing, county clerking, and recording. BTW, have you seen the print ad comparing qualifications between Irizarry and Canepa? We know who is qualified. Irizarry.
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Hank, Boy do you have it backwards. Jim Irizarry is facing employee lawsuits as I write this. He received a no confidence VOTE of 2-1 in the offices he oversees based on many negative reasons, specifically for WASTING over $50M from making emotional decisions. Who knows best on how the three offices should operate? The employees who DO the WORK who overwhelmingly endorse Canepa !!!
Hey guest - Irizarry wants to crack the whip on these employees who are notoriously underperforming. They fear that they may be asked to start working again. They prefer Canepa because he loves the status quo at the tax payers' detriment. Why in the world would you have employees select their managers? If Bezos had listened to his employees, Amazon would have gone under a long time ago. The labor unions are against Irizarry and that alone should qualify him.
Dirk - You have no idea what happened and is happening right now. What used to take one employee 5 minutes to get a value into the old database now takes 4 - 8 "man" hours and must pass through a team of people. The paper work for appraisals is two or three times what the State requires.
What makes you think that Canepa can solve that? He has no clue whatsoever. Who is responsible for the change in the data base? Was the change required for registry security or integrity reasons? And, is he aware or wants to ignore the problem? Also, is he a supporter of the Dominion cartel? In any case, having worked there during the voting season I found it very intimidating and seemingly haphazard. Again, what would Canepa bring to the table? He would simply dance to a tune set for him.
Canepa is willing to investigate buying the database that over 30 Counties are happily using right now for $500k. Canapa has read the Srate Manual and pledged to follow it. That alone will cut the cost of running the office by 10% in year one.
Against the advice of the staff who has computer engineers on it, Irizarry decided that a database for sales companies was best for a gover ment agency that does basuc math and basic property characteristics. $50,000,000 dollars and wasteful overtime every year against staff advice has been Jim's continued course.
Hilarious. Hey guest[code to crack your phone?] (dunno why you change from Guest876589 to this onerous one), you say Irizarry received a no confidence vote in the office he oversees and yet, per Mr. Huenings’s LTE (https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/irizarry-and-taso/article_b67ab780-3a9c-41c3-8c05-445de9571905.html) Canepa’s fellow supervisors endorse Irizarry. Why not Canepa? And seriously, in this day and age of lawfare, who isn’t subject to lawsuits, frivolous or not?
Perhaps Canepa’s fellow supervisors, along with everyone else, realize Canepa has no experience whatsoever in assessing, county clerking, and recording. BTW, have you seen the print ad comparing qualifications between Irizarry and Canepa? We know who is qualified. Irizarry.
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