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Originally Posted by Dean
Scott, I am just interpreting what I read, not making up anything. you threw in the part about hookers relating to somebody governing a state. I assumed you were still talking about Gibbons at that point.
I have no problem if somebody wants to report the president is a crackhead if true and he should be prosecuted if so, but to remotely equate that to somebody getting a divorce is silly IMHO.
Should IGT fire you if your break up with your girlfriend? Or maybe they should for posting some portion of your almost 15,000 posts on SECCS from the office because it clearly makes you a bad programmer.  . |
You're confusing scale with specific offense. It's not the specific problem that's the issue, it's how much that problem affects the individual. If my drive-thru anger, or a breakup did cause me enough distress that my job performance suffers then perhaps I should lose my job. But in general, those things aren't usually enough to warrant public attention.
On the other hand, Gov Gibbons seems to be perpetually required to publicly acknowledge this or that personal issue, one of which is a massive atomic-blast level divorce. I think it's pretty safe to say that there is obvious potential for his personal issues to affect his job performance.
So, like you just said:
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Originally Posted by Dean
Yes, the press should report this stuff, but it is up to the public to decide if that is relevant to his job performance, but lets make sure we have some facts, not just supposition or suspicion. Our elected officials deserve the same rights and liberties the rest of us do
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this stuff should be of public interest, because it is pertinent to his ability to do his job, which earlier you said it wasn't.