In fact, four days before his term kicked off, Tape announced that – after he took over – the coroner’s office would no longer provide its sexual assault nurse examiner (Sane) program. He said local hospitals instead would be responsible for the service, which involved collecting evidence that was vital for the prosecution of sexual assault crimes, as Nola.com reported.
I can’t imagine why an accused sexual predator would do such a thing?
Also, he perceived a death threat when he found a body bag at a coroner’s office? Not the brightest or not truthful. Flip a coin. I bet it lands standing up on its edge.
I feel like it’s a good thing to not have an admitted child molester in charge of overseeing a program serving victims of sexual assault. Losing the program in the first place is shitty, though.
Second of all, yes, because this is an elected position for which he ran unopposed, and a basic requirement of the job is that you win that election. Since nobody else won that election, nobody else could do the job. That‘s why they’re struggling to replace him.
I’m guessing you didn’t read the article because they discuss that in depth.
It’s amazing how many legit criminals get into public office or important civil service positions, like county coroner, and how their motivations are always so transparent. We need more ways to prevent these types of predators from attaining office.
What we need is for people like me to be in office, but since it basically sucks I’ll never want to. Instead you have people there who have a goal of power seeking. I would rather ride out the end of the world making sure to not have kids than work to solve this world’s issues. None of it is my fault and it’s not my responsibility either.
I’m on my neighborhood development district board. It’s boring, mostly thankless, and pays just over nothing. The only reason I do it is to prevent the crazy assholes from taking office and fucking everything up.
While “What we need is for people like me to be in office” smacks of the “I alone can fix it” fallacy, I tend to share exactly the same sentiments. I definitely think I’m impartial enough to represent all of my would be constituents. However it’s such a hassle to get involved, just the scrutinization alone is what keeps me away. My wife is a paranoid schizophrenic military rape victim, and running for public office would just make her life so much more unbearable, and I definitely wouldn’t want to do that to her. Also as a pot smoker I’m already disinclined to expose my privacy, because not only will I be judged for my harmless vice, but also judged for my moral character based on my vice, and I’d be legally exposed if I’ve left my enemies a way to get around the protection of my medical marijuana license.
I also realize saying all of this is kinda weird since the Right wingers have straight up pedos, rapists, fraudsters, and all kinds of white collar criminals running for office while seemingly flaunting their crimes like it’s a positive part of their resume, because their end goal is a lawless America, but only for the white right people.
I suppose I should have specified that “people like me” specifically meant people who aren’t actually interested in the power.
Also yeah that’s how they work. They make it clear that they can use the law to make a bad spin out of anyone and then only the machiavellians are willing to play.
It all comes down to that risk/reward calculation, for folks like us there’s too much risk and not enough reward, especially if we maintain our sense of ethics and morality, but for those who are okay with being corrupt scumbags there’s far more reward than risk, and to be fair, those people are the types that generally don’t pay attention to the risks in any scenario.
Sure one can say a healthy progressive country should be reward enough, but regardless of how selfless we may think we are we as a species always operates from a self-centered perspective, and ultimately it still comes down to “what’s in it for me”, but this is why devoted anti-corruption folks like Bernie Sanders are the real MVPs, because they’ve managed to push that self-centeredness into the back of their minds in order to work for the betterment of the rest of us while eschewing the rewards, and these people should be praised and protected.
This always sounded crazy to me. In Canada, a coroner is a medical doctor with a specialization, similar to a pathologist. In some States it’s just a random person.
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