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Double Standard

July 19, 2018 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article Leave a Comment

Why is the employee that was fired for theft, not being charged with theft? 

City Manager Scott Miller made the statement that the employee had problems and that the stolen items were returned.  What does that have to do with the employee  STEALING?  He has had a history of abuse of city resources.  WHY IS HE NOT BEING PROSECUTED?

By the reasoning of the city manager we should not PROSECUTE anyone that has problems and if items are recovered then a thief should not be prosecuted.  Is this another good ole boy situation?  Different standard for employees than citizens?  City manager should be fired, the fired employee should be prosecuted and the citizens should be offered an apology.  

CITIZENS EXPECT AN ANSWER.

 _ Outraged East Ridge Citizen, Glen Pope

Filed Under: Opinion

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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