Thanks for the heads-up.

She reminds me of one of the Star Wars creatures. I forget which one...

Creepy!

What's next? Charging Dellums with a hate crime??

Oh those wacky Dems. Another American city that will be a total wasteland by the time they are through.

Buh-Bye pigface!

You must mean Jabba the Hut Slobba the Slut.

Your humour is most wicked and the comparison was spot on. Any other comparisons that you can think of in relation to the elected dolts in Congress. Thank you for the Morning Laugh./Just Asking - seoul62.......

Aw c’mon Smithy...here it is July 4th holiday upon us and you’re already bringing out the halloween decorations.
Can’t you at least wait until late September?

I hope she doesn’t run out all upset and start pigging out on double cheeseburgers. That might ruin her figure.

You got it, capt. norm. Dead ringer if you ask me... :)

That’s “it” (which refers to both of them). Thanks!

Forget about the 'change of heart'.....better start the project at the face. Ug Ug Uuuuuuuuuugggggggggllllllyyyyyyy!

I saw that on a protest sign somewhere

That would be Jabba the City Administrator...

Gilbert Kahui - Kono from Hawaii Five-0

Must have been pretty bad for a leftie like Dellums to have sent her packing.

We better be careful, She just might gobble all of us up for lunch!!!!!/Just Asking - seoul62........

Please, please, please -- someone convince me this nappy headed Affirmative Action "civil service" employee criminal is worth more that minimum wage!

Where else in the world can a black moron earn this kind of money as a city employee -- and still bitch about the cruelty of America..

$260,000 now, but what when Dellums fills the position with one of his cronies? He’s no shining knight, either, having ordered the City Council to give him a 25% pay raise in his first month, followed by his demand for additional “aides” at six-figure salaries each.

I refer to her as an Affirmative Action Figure.

There's no telling what kind of counter-intel ops she's been running against the OPD.

What's ironic is that ol' Jerry " Moonbeam " Brown, former mayor of Oakland, now the State Attorney General, is the one who hired her!

Word , yo ! Oakland, where the City Governemnt has ties to gangs! Peace out !

Edgerly's attorney, Doron Weinberg, hinted that Tuesday's firing may not be the end of the controversy.

"About the only thing I can figure is the mayor got some bad legal advice, because Deborah legally can't be terminated without being given a hearing," Weinberg said.

Weinberg acknowledged that the city administrator serves "at will" - meaning the mayor has the authority to fire her without giving a reason. But in this case, he said, publicity surrounding the allegations that she interfered in the police case was clear evidence that she was being fired for cause - and thus legally merited a hearing.

Asked whether Edgerly, who earns $260,000 a year, intended to file suit, Weinberg said: "We certainly are going to take whatever appropriate steps are next."

ya lay down with dogs...

Dellums’ patience with Edgerly has cost him
San Francisco Chronicle | 6/29/8 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
Posted on 06/29/2008 8:22:16 AM PDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038166/posts

New storm hits ousted Oakland official

Former Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, fired last week amid allegations of nepotism and intervening in a police investigation, got summer jobs with the city for her own children - who were paid even when they didn't show up for work, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle.

Erin and Frank Breckenridge, hired as student interns in 2005, were paid $2,322 each over two months - including $1,646 apiece in salary advances - that they were not entitled to, according to a report by the city controller, who later was fired after trying to go public with the information.

And when Controller LaRae Brown questioned William Noland, the city's finance director, about two months' worth of time cards for Edgerly's grown children that she had determined were fraudulent, he responded weeks later by handing her $1,775 in cash, Brown's report states.

Noland said the cash "was to reimburse the city for Erin and Frank Breckenridge," Brown's report to Edgerly says.

Brown, who now works for the city of Millbrae and is suing Edgerly and the city of Oakland for firing her after she blew the whistle on allegedly fraudulent practices in the city's finances, refused to accept the money, and Noland placed it in a city safe.

Noland told me Thursday that he had offered Brown the cash payment as reimbursement for time off that the Breckenridges, who were in their early 20s, had taken. Edgerly told me they had attended her father's funeral the last week of June 2005.

The interns "were the children of the city administrator," Noland said in an interview. "She was my boss, and they're her children. I left it up to her."

Edgerly, 56, who was fired from her $260,000-a-year job by Mayor Ron Dellums on July 1, also acknowledged the repayment. But she adamantly denied that her children otherwise were ever paid for work that was not performed.

She claimed that Brown, motivated by the money she could be awarded in a whistle-blower lawsuit she filed against the city in March, had simply fabricated the story.

"Neither one of my children ever worked for LaRae Brown, so how would she know where either of them were?" Edgerly said. "She was not in a position to tell whether Frankie was at work - and she's lying about their time."

But Brown tells a different story.

According to her report, finance department officials found that neither Frank nor Erin Breckenridge had shown up for work from July 25 to Aug. 19, 2005, although city payroll checks were issued to them for the entire period.

In September 2005, Brown brought her suspicions to Noland, who passed the information on to Edgerly. A few weeks later, Nolan presented Brown with the pile of cash.

Erin Breckenridge now works as an Oakland police trainee and earns $54,000 a year, while her brother is a computer systems specialist for the city and is paid the same salary, according to city records.

Brown and her attorney, John Burris, say they plan to produce many documents in court, including the Breckenridges' time sheets for the period in question.

On Monday, Edgerly characterized herself in a TV interview as a rational, reasonable person who has been subjected to a media witch hunt since police reported that she might have interfered in an investigation that resulted in the arrests of 50 alleged members of a violent Oakland street gang, including her nephew, William Lovan, 27, a parking-meter repairman for the city.

Two days later, The Chronicle reported that Edgerly, in one of her final acts before being fired, had granted Cheryl Thompson, her second-in-command and good friend, five months' pay as a severance package - plus a car allowance.

It seems unfathomable that Edgerly can expect to assert a claim of ethical behavior while providing a glowing example of cronyism in the next instant.

Whether people ultimately believe Brown's claims or Edgerly's explanation of how events unfolded, I think that Brown's actions have been courageous.

She stood up and asked questions others were afraid to ask, demanded a meeting with Edgerly and gave Edgerly a face-to-face accounting of her suspicions about the boss' kids.

Brown's lawsuit raises questions about procedures and government competency that need to be answered. It's ridiculous that in a city agency with 370 employees, there is no way to determine whether two people who just so happened to be the boss' kids showed up for work - for a month.

I believe that Brown, who was fired in March 2007, four days before she was scheduled to meet with outside auditors about payroll and other abuses in the finance department, deserves to have her claims publicly vetted and proved or dismissed.

Perhaps a lawsuit that requires full disclosure from both sides will be the only way residents will be able to understand Oakland's hiring practices and its fiscal standing. And maybe they'll get the transparent government promised by the current administration.

Chip Johnson's column appears in The Chronicle on Tuesdays and Fridays. E-mail him at chjohnson@sfchronicle.com.

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