Not-So-Secret Agenda
The Schwieger Report, which is now part of the public record on account of the related court proceedings, is full of whoppers. But of all of them, I think this is my favorite -- it is found right at the top of page 60:
Let's break that down. Schwieger claims to be performing "an investigation of hostile work environment claims made by Sherrie Le" (page one). She reported that the hostile work environment was due to Mr. Copeland, the new Council Members, and Mayor. But Schwieger takes umbrage at various witnesses who assumed he would be investigating the people allegedly responsible for the hostile environment.
Clearly, Schwieger recognized that he had been given a different mandate when Copeland hired him. The "investigate her complaint" story just was a cover -- his real job was to investigate the complainant, to give Copeland a rudimentary paper trail for her firing -- and Schwieger seems remarkably surprised that not everyone was in on the secret, including Le herself.
Ms. Le and many of her supporting witnesses throughout this investigation have tried to make this an investigation of Mr. Copeland, and secondarily, an investigation of the new Council Members and Mayor.
Let's break that down. Schwieger claims to be performing "an investigation of hostile work environment claims made by Sherrie Le" (page one). She reported that the hostile work environment was due to Mr. Copeland, the new Council Members, and Mayor. But Schwieger takes umbrage at various witnesses who assumed he would be investigating the people allegedly responsible for the hostile environment.
Clearly, Schwieger recognized that he had been given a different mandate when Copeland hired him. The "investigate her complaint" story just was a cover -- his real job was to investigate the complainant, to give Copeland a rudimentary paper trail for her firing -- and Schwieger seems remarkably surprised that not everyone was in on the secret, including Le herself.
posted by Frostbrand @ 10:20 AM
2 Comments:
At 12:26 PM,
LookingNorth said…
come election time, it sure will be fun to waive this report around like a flag flying in the breeze.
Nice job mouseketeers!
At 2:09 PM,
theblankline said…
What an interesting bunch of innuendo, assumption, implication and suggestion. This man has quite obviously fallen into the 'what do you want me to write?' role instead of the investigative role. Aside from the typos and mis-wordings strewn throughout, the entire report begins and ends with the assumption that Ms Le has created her own hostile work environment out of whole cloth. Unfortunately there is nothing in the hostile work environment law that references intimidation and emotional abuse towards an individual based on simple retaliation. Excusing the inappropriate actions of the new majority because they are the majority is a specious argument at best.
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