Thanks for Trying

First, let Ddg apologize for this late thank you. It should have been posted last week, but...................

For Phil Raybuck and Bill Thompson, Ddg thanks you for your effort in the primary. Ddg knows it took personal time and your effort in the political process. If not for your attempt, longshanks would have had an unopposed primary.

Thank you two again for offering an alternative to four more years of slick glick. Unfortunately, the voters got fooled again. Expecting different results with the same cast is not logical. But, hey, who said logic had anything to do with voting.

When Is slick glick In??

Since there have been several additional email comments received about tracking glick in the office or out, this will be the spot to enter the in or out. Remember not to enter immediate information the could jeopardize your job or connection to the information. So if it has to be late information, that's alright too.

The word was last Wednesday, the day after the primary, neither glick nor his wife were at work. Was that a sick, holiday, vacation or just I'm not going in day for the absentee sheriff? Or was someone just a shade hungover?

Say What???? Okay, Just Consider the Source!

Ddg looked at the WTE (We Trivialize Everything) article and saw that they declared a "landslide" for slick glick. Sorry WTE, that was not a landslide, but again when you have already sold out your journalistic soul,  does a more caca del toro hurt you at all?

Do you must really think everyone reads and believes what they have read in your attempt at journalism?

Unfortunately for your newspaper, it is your lack of credibility and investigative reporting that will continue to be your downfall.

Just Got Fooled Again

Well, the Laramie County voters got fooled again by glick, who is no doubt planning his retribution (ala longshanks) against those that he can identify that stood up against him. Ddg thanks the number of clear thinking voters who were not fooled by the signs, smoke, and mirrors.


Ddg will continue on, bringing you the low down on what happens and hopefully educating enough voters to allow for a new sheriff to clean up the mess. Ddg will continue to expose the truth about those in power at the sheriff's department. Ddg will continue to advise on the political promotions as well as dig back into the past of the politically promoted.

For those deputies on the street and in the jail, continue to do your jobs as best you can. The public does not know what it takes to do your job on a daily basis and most could not or would not do your job. Ddg thanks you all for putting yourself between the citizen and the criminal element on a daily basis to help keep Laramie County safe.

Today is the Day

Today is Tuesday August 17th, 2010. It's time to get the vote out. Voting from 7am to 7pm.

Ddg reminds you to check with your family and friends. Be sure that they vote. Give them a ride, make sure they get to the polls, but don't let a single vote get away!!

Make at least two contacts and have them make two more contacts to get the votes out and counted.

Today is the day that we elect a new sheriff.

Remember, friends don't let friends vote for glick.

PRIMARY TIME!!!

Ddg would again remind everyone that tomorrow, Tuesday August 17th, 2010 is primary day.

Your vote and everyone that feels this blog is right matters. If you cannot vote tomorrow, go to the county building on E 20th Street and vote absentee today. You can register at the polls today (absentee) or tomorrow at your local polling location. Remind your family and friends to vote.

If you do not vote for a change at the Laramie County Sheriff's Department, don't be surprised at what happens over the next four years. If you don't vote, you are condoning the mess that the sheriff's department is in now and approving of another four years of political promotions, supervisors not doing their jobs, and the people that put the political game ahead of the welfare of the citizens of Laramie County will still be there.

Remember, friends don't let friends vote for glick.

Told You So!!!

Several reports into Ddg about the latest scare tactic being used by glick. Keep the info coming folks! Seems as though all of the administrative types were told to cruise around, looking for the signs that did not indicate support for glick.
So the questions are:

1) Are they using Laramie County vehicles?
2) Are they using duty time like a certain lt was doing a few weeks ago?
3) How far will this regime go to intimidate anyone who does not support Longshanks??

One answer is that they are truly scared that it is almost over. Desperate people do desperate things.

Your vote will help make the diffference.

Friends do not let friends vote for glick.

Latest Mailing/Pick Me, Pick Me

So now glick is mailing out brochures with a preprinted label and without a return address on the envelope. When you open it, there is a tri-fold brochure with three pictures of glick, none of which are really flattering.

The first picture shows him with what appears to be a pair of identical dead squirrel tails perched above his lip.

The second shows him sunburned in a cowboy hat with the above mentioned dead squirrel tails and a strange expression on his face.

The third shows him with glazed eyes with the same aforesaid squirrel tails in a white uniform shirt that has a single star on either collar.

So, what does the single star mean? Does it refer to prior military service by glick? Sorry, danny boy never served in the military. Perhaps that is why he wraps himself in the American flag as much as he can.  So glick must fancy himself an armchair general (after all, the head of the Wyoming Highway Patrol only wears a colonel rank) who never served with the best of them.

glick lists a number of points in his brochure that "As your Sheriff I will continue to..." with the first being  "Bring a high level of professionalism, honesty and integrity to the department." Yes, you are still trying to bring professionalism, honesty and integrity to the department since you have not been able to do that for the last eight years! Keep promising, someone might believe you.

"Demonstrate fiscal responsibility" as you did during the last Laramie County Reserve Certification Course where you turned down a very qualified DWUI instructor who would have taught for free and instead paid twenty hours of overtime to your latest appointed street sergeant.

The other points continue ad nauseam and so could we, but you get the point.

Friends really don't let friends vote for glick.

The L stands for LONGSHANKS

glick's middle initial L must stand for Longshanks. After eight years of not keeping your word and eliminating or silencing those deputies who dared to work for the best interest of the department, your true lack of character has been shown.

Those that would give you another chance to continue to tear down the department from the top down must not understand doing the same thing with the same people and expecting different results is ludicrous.

Why are there the problems? Simple. The lack of leadership from the top has now manifested itself into the managers (lieutenants), supervisors (sergeants), and workers (deputies).  Not doing the right thing has become the way that things are encouraged to be done.

How many lieutenants? You have lieutenants spending several hours a day to watch the videos of the deputies doing their jobs. No complaints or hints that a job is not being done right, just someone wasting time that they could better spend supervising sergeants.

Sergeants that spend their time playing politics, not knowing the Wyoming State Statutes, at the office more than they are on the street, and not supervising the deputies because the sergeants either do not know how to do the basic job or are too lazy to be sure the job is done right.

Finally there are deputies that need either guidance, supervision or training and not getting any. Last you have the deputies that can and would do the job, but not doing the best job that can be done has become the norm at the office, not the exception. For the deputies, who attempt on a daily basis to do the best they can for the citizens of Laramie County and being there for us without fanfare or thanks, Ddg thanks you.

Voting Time Is Here

DDg would like to remind everyone to vote either absentee on Monday if you cannot vote this Tuesday or Tuesday for sure. Every vote that comes in against glick is one less vote it will take to put him out of office and be a step to restoring the Laramie County Sheriff's Department.

Remember to talk to your friends (on the side if you have to), but it is very important to let them know where you stand.

Any friend does not let a friend vote for glick!

Who Didn't Get Endorsed? No Suprise Here!

The WyGO PAC (Wyoming Gun Owners) has endorsed Phil Raybuck according to Anthony Bouchard.

The Wyoming Republicans Tea Party has endorsed Bill Thompson according to Scott Pease.

So why didn't either one of these organizations endorse glick? Probably because they made an honest and open assessment of the candidates and found glick sorely lacking in the qualities that they sought.

Remember: An armed society is a polite society-Robert A. Heinlein

When seconds count, the police are only minutes away. Ddg supports concealed carry.

Friends don't let friends vote for glick!

Can we say HAWTHORNE!!!!!

First, a Ddg thank you to the sender of this information. When you go out and send us information, it makes our job so much easier.

What is Hawthorne and why does it matter? Hawthorne was/is a supplier of maintenance supplies to the Laramie County Sheriff's Department.

Back in June 2003 in the first year of glick's regime, the budget year was closing out. So all the money would have to be spent from the 2002-2003 budget year. Any money not spent prior to June 30th with the items received by the purchaser by July 1st would go back into the general budget and the items ordered would be charged against the next year's budget.. 

The following information is available at the Laramie County Clerk's Office/Financing. It refers to Laramie County Purchase Order Voucher #046042 which covers Hawthorne invoices # 375144, 375194, 375194-1, 374582, and 375030. All were ordered by Captain long (Laramie County Sheriff's Dept.)

The Laramie County Purchase Order voucher shows the items ordered, and signed for as being "received" by then Laramie County Commissioner Jack Knudson. But wait, the one item on 375030 is listed as paper/liner at $20,044.32?

From the invoice #375030 the item is listed as one misc supplies and described as chemical, paper and liner.

Now it gets interesting. It is a letter in the file dated September 3, 2003 and sent from Robert Cook (Accounting Manager-Laramie County Clerk's Office) to the Laramie County Clerk, Debbie Lathrop. Cook raises issues that should rightly be raised regarding Hawthorne Maintenance being prepaid $20,000.00 (paying for items not yet  received by the purchaser-a violation of Laramie County budget procedures-and possibly state statute).  A call to Meg at Hawthorne confirmed that long had requested that they submit invoices for a years worth of supplies.

Issue #1 "Overstatement of FY 2003 expenditures."
Issue #2 "Understatement of FY2004 expenditures."
Issue #3 "Jack Knudson signed an attest statement that the "items have been received.""
Issue #4 "A vendor submitting fabricated invoices."
Issue #5 "Management participating in a practice to pad their budget through a deceptive practice."
Issue #6 "County money being held in an uncollateralized, unauthorized account."

"I am concerned about the possibility of other prepayments. This sounds a lot like some of the claims made against the Barrett administration. Please let me know how you would like me to proceed."

There was not any reply in the file. So did Lathrop simply blow this off?

Why was long allowed to pay ahead when obviously it should not have been done?

Has this continued to be a standard budget practice for the sheriff's department under glick?

What action was taken if any with long? Or did this just "fall into a crack somewhere, never to be heard from again"?

Finally Ddg asks, what else has been going on with the budget since 2003 that falls into the same category and has been ignored?

Information

Ddg would like to thank everyone who has provided input. Ddg cannot put out all comments submitted due to:
1. the sheer volume received (Thank You!!!)
2. not being able to verify all of the very interesting information submitted
3. some are matters that are more appropriately referred to official agencies (i.e. Department of Family Services, Attorney General's Office, etc.)
4. the risk of your identity being compromised and the likelihood of retaliation affecting your employment, privacy, or possibly your personal safety.

Realize that the local newspapers, television station, radio stations and other information sources in Cheyenne do not want to rock the boat or bite the hand that feeds them. They will not follow up on any information published here. That would require honest work, integrity, and asking questions that people might not want to answer. The information would have to be disseminated in an open and fair fashion. That appears above and beyond their ability.

Please put any information that you have into this post and it will be used for further posts and not published. Any other information from you as to your identification to help confirm what you are sending will also not be released or published.





Remember, talk to your friends and have them talk to their friends.


GOOD friends don't let friends vote for glick!

Please Tell Them How Good I Am

Well it had to happen. glick on his Facebook page asks for his "everyone" to write letters to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle in favor of his reelection and provides a link to the letters to the editor.



What's the matter danny boy, no real friends you can ask? Or do they know you too well and just don't want to lie? You have to ask on a website for people to write letters to the editor? Getting desperate now or has it been that way for some time?



Kind of reminds one of Bill Clinton asking for donations for his legal fund after he lied under oath.



Ddg believes the voters will see through your smokescreen. Maybe you can put up more big signs and hope they can remember your name.

Big Sister/Politics as Usual

Ddg remembers the last election (2006) when certain deputies publicly opposed glick. Some even had the audacity to put out signs and express open support for another candidate. What happened to those deputies? They are no longer with the department.

How did that information get back to glick? Pretty simple. It seems as though the sheriff's wife was driving around, checking deputy's houses. Will it happen again this time? Has it already happened? What do you think?

More Chiefs and Less Deputies

Ddg remembers that when glick was running for his first term, he degraded then Sheriff Allsop for his large staff. Allsop had a lieutenant in the jail, the patrol side, and an admin lieutenant. glick now has how lieutenants doing the job that three used to do? Can we say top heavy?

What is the price for too much management? Other than the fact that the money could be better spent employing a detention or street deputy that can actually help the citizens of Laramie County.

Remember that each management position, just like a detention or street slot has to have forty hours of certified training that is acceptable to the Wyoming Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) hours every two years to remain certified in Wyoming. So what classes do these mangers get to go to? Where are these classes? Are these classes necessary for their position or do they go for the "fun school" and not show up for the class in Las Vegas, only showing up to pick up their certificate?

What do they do with this training? Do they instruct at all or is it just an entry on their POST training record?

What about the deputies who only get the minimal amount of training necessary to maintain their certification? Do their political views play into the training that they get or do not get? Of course they do.

National Sheriff's Association

From down at the office, the word is that glick wants to be the president of the National Sheriff's Association sooooooooooo bad. That will give him another excuse (not that he needs one) not to be in the office.



glick thinks that another four year term as sheriff (you have to be a sheriff) will let him go up the election chain to president in the National Sheriff's Association. Gosh, isn't it great that the Laramie County Sheriff would have the time and money to serve as a national leader of an association when his office is in critical need of leadership? If you give glick a third term and four more years of political promotions, Laramie County will suffer.

That will be for you, the voters to decide.

Remember, even part time friends don't let friends vote for glick!

Sign Sign Everywhere a Sign

Looking around, you see lots of big signs up for reelection along with a particularly funky picture billboard on Del Range. glick (in his version of reality) must think that if he gets enough signs up that he can fool enough people for a third term.

Ddg hates to break the bad news, but people are not buying your drivel this time. It is time for a change, so talk to your family and friends.

Remember, friends don't let friends vote for glick.

Street promotion/On the Down Low

Again, shocking information. The last street sergeant promoted did not come from the top three on the sergeant selection list. What happened was that one deputy (not in the top three) and another deputy (not even on the sergeant list) were called in by the powers that be. The next information sent out by those powers was that the deputy not on the promotion list was the new street sergeant.

What a slap in the face to the street deputies who had gone through the testing procedure and were on the list. glick (in his lack of wisdom) had decided that the listed deputies were not good enough and that he needed to put in his personal pick.

So, why bother testing?? Just pick your choice. After all, you are the sheriff and can do it. All it shows to everyone else is what a small person you really are.

Of course it was at an awards ceremony this year where the sheriff hands out awards to those deemed worthy of receiving them.

glick started on and went on and on how this particular sergeant had done an excellent job. At an armed and barricaded situation, the sergeant had got information about the layout of the premises and weapons available to the suspect. This was critical information to the SWAT Team. This sergeant was to be commended and so on and so forth. Ad nauseam.

REALITY CHECK: The sergeant had gotten the information from two deputies who were working on scene who had actually done the work for which he was receiving the commendation. Therefore Ddg must ask, what investigation was done (if any) to be sure that the sergeant actually HAD DONE ANYTHING to deserve the award?? How many other awards were actually not earned by the people that were given the award??

Of course this sergeant, since he had integrity, turned down the award and explained to all present that he had received the information from two deputies who had actually done all the work. They were the ones that actually should be commended. All he did was pass it along to the SWAT team (of which he is a member) for their use.

WRONG AGAIN!! The sergeant took the award and did not say anything. What a total lack of integrity from a supervisor that glick has promoted. Remember, this person has a badge and supervisory authority at the Laramie County Sheriff's Department.

This behavior demonstrates the lack of integrity that has been fostered by glick through the last eight years.

Will this embarrass anyone?? Not now at this department.