Our gentle advisements to our TWU Local 100 president John Samuelsen are either his to take or leave. However if he considers them they will enhance him for the betterment of TWU Local 100 which is for the sake of the membership’s well being. We believe he is not failing to understand, however we are not going to accept financial irregularities with his unholy team of union credit cards undignified practice which should end at earnest.
We fail to understand as per John Samuelsen with his TBOU team that there is no financial irregularities issues but rather ‘There have been problems with the Local’s financial practices. As they’ve been identified, they’ve been addressed.’. What is wrong, by the way with encouraging the membership to inquire about this financial irregularities financial standards or financial problems? Unless John Samuelsen with his TBOU are afraid to respond with the facts of the financial issues then clearly it would be frowned upon.
We would like to praise the changing or moving the goal post concerning these financial irregularities, problems or standards to your liking. We want to look more into John Samuelsen’s financial wizardry on behalf of the membership at all levels. There is no question that the membership are infuriated at John Samuelsen’s financial disclosures and characterizations regarding their credit card usage. Unfortunately financial standards in TWU Local 100 reportedly continues to deteriorate coupled with union credit card misuses which is a disgrace. The operative adage is ‘the proof of the pudding is in the tasting.’ The present recipe appears to provide a financial brew that is from unpalatable to toxic.
We believe all of us have graduated from high school thus we can muster to gain the mathematics formulas for a square = a 2. We also know that in physics that gold is a poor conductor of electricity than copper so when the salesman tries to up-sell you on $300 of HDMI cables that are the "only way to make your new 240 Hz TV work" politely tell him he is incorrect and to move on with the sale. Or let us put it another way, if you're paying more than $5 for a two-meter HDMI cable, you're overpaying. In addition to the corrosion between dissimilar metals - if one half of the connection is gold (the cable) and the other is copper (the equipment) you will have a chemical reaction over time. Coming back to the TWU Local 100 financial irregularities, problems, or standards their performance was unholy, if Samuelsen calls a horse’s tail a leg - the horse still only has four legs.
We are not snobbish as not to admit that we were informed by the audit on John Sameulsen’s financial ‘muckraking’ (not pejoratively defined) it would be disappointing to be deprived of that opportunity. It is more a matter of silliness than being disingenuous to suggest ‘that there was never any financial or ‘petty cash’ policy’. On the other hand if there is any truth to the adage that ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ then the latter method at an attempt to destroy the previous administration with the unnecessary unwarranted audit as being of the same stripe is abominable. The point being made was both attempts are likely to backfire.
What saddens and troubles us - bottom line - is that John Samuelsen is an intelligent person however he missed the point, i.e. that our concern is with the principles rather than principals. In this financial controversial scenario between John Samuelsen and Roger Toussaint, the issue is not one of there being sinners - yet saints there ‘ain’t.’
Sadly you are on the money (pun intended) Michael. How was it possible for TBOU i.e.; John Samuelsen, to bash the administrations of Roger Toussaint and Curtis Tate and continually pointing out their policy mismanagement for the entire year leading up to his election and then simply following the same fiscal plan that was already in place? You just can't have it both ways. Telling the members that Toussaint and Tate's policies were all wrong and then when you're team is caught with their hands in the cookie jar blaming the Toussaint and Tate fiscal plan is just bottom of the ocean lame.
ReplyDeleteThey claim the interim report means little, and it is my bet that Larry Cary and his henchmen are burning the midnight oil fabricating plausible excuses for each questionable credit card purchase. Benita Johnson and her earrings as well as Angel Giboyeaux and his "pet fees" incurred in Myrtle Beach will all be "explained" away just as was John Samuelsen's emergency excursion to Pathmark. Difference is Samuelsen did reimburse the Local 19 days later (Steve Downs used to scream "He paid it back in full the very next day") was within the same Am Ex billing cycle. Johnson on the other hand did not reimburse the Local for several months which easily leads to the question; did she reimburse only AFTER she was exposed? I can't find any reimbursement by Giboyeaux whatsoever.
Roxanne Rotger and Vernon Thorpe were lost causes early on. Their TWU American Express card usage was simply unexplainable and they were tossed under the bus. Both Thorpe and Rotger need to be questioned by authorities to reveal all in hopes of getting to the very bottom of this financial mayhem.
I am not a betting man but if I were I'd have to say that at this point John Samuelsen finishing out his term is at best a long shot.