25-09-2011, 01:54 PM
My original inquiry was prompted by the presence of an Air Force colonel (still not sure if he was retired or in the Reserves) at the highest level of a political campaign on which I was consulting.
He/she was incompetent to the degree that a major disconnect became evident between this person's performance and the resume-listed accomplishments that prompted his/her hiring.
Said resume included military assignment history with the entities I listed in my original post. And I quickly began to discern the stink of the School of Americas rising from this person, given other resume-based references.
I decided to play the SOA card by making a VERY deregatory reference to his/her possible connection to it during a heated campaign senior staff meeting. This person promptly offered to "kick my ass" and defended the SOA as a noble effort to "restore order."
"Spook" was carved into his/her brow.
The candidate lost, and the suspect campaign executive quickly left Rhode Island for another job opportunity -- after having sworn that he/she had established deep and abiding roots in Providence.
He/she was incompetent to the degree that a major disconnect became evident between this person's performance and the resume-listed accomplishments that prompted his/her hiring.
Said resume included military assignment history with the entities I listed in my original post. And I quickly began to discern the stink of the School of Americas rising from this person, given other resume-based references.
I decided to play the SOA card by making a VERY deregatory reference to his/her possible connection to it during a heated campaign senior staff meeting. This person promptly offered to "kick my ass" and defended the SOA as a noble effort to "restore order."
"Spook" was carved into his/her brow.
The candidate lost, and the suspect campaign executive quickly left Rhode Island for another job opportunity -- after having sworn that he/she had established deep and abiding roots in Providence.