Will Douglas Gawadzinski be Elk Grove's next city manager?
Meet Douglas Gawadzinski Who, you may ask is Douglas Gawadzinski? Gawadzinski is an FAA employee, civil servant if you will, pulling down a ...
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Meet Douglas Gawadzinski
Who, you may ask is Douglas Gawadzinski?
Gawadzinski is an FAA employee, civil servant if you will, pulling down a cool $100,000 a year. Gawadzinki is at the center of the unfolding FAA Southwest Airlines inspection scandal.
Gawadzinski, has been fingered as having an oh so cozy relationship with the very industry that he, as a servant of and for the people, is charged with monitoring. While his name will undoubtedly be a footnote in history, his story is revealing of the times we now live.
If any of this sound familiar, is because our elected officials even here in Elk Grove and the people they hire to manage our affairs tend to have and oh so cozy relationships.
Over the last 30 years or so, the American public has been smacked over the head time after time and told that deregulation is primarily for their benefit. As this case illustrates, deregulation really means killing consumer protection - in this case flight safety.
The fact that this case has made it the public eye is amazing. How many other "civil servants" are out there tucked away in some department of some federal agency, let alone city hall, that are looking out not for the people, but the industry they are supposed to monitor or themselves?
So as the city of Elk Grove spends thousands of dollars in their executive search, lets hope they don't find or own Gawadzinski.
By the way, I wonder how many bags of peanuts and drink tokens Gawadzinski needed to give Southwest such preferential treatment?
Who, you may ask is Douglas Gawadzinski?
Gawadzinski is an FAA employee, civil servant if you will, pulling down a cool $100,000 a year. Gawadzinki is at the center of the unfolding FAA Southwest Airlines inspection scandal.
Gawadzinski, has been fingered as having an oh so cozy relationship with the very industry that he, as a servant of and for the people, is charged with monitoring. While his name will undoubtedly be a footnote in history, his story is revealing of the times we now live.
If any of this sound familiar, is because our elected officials even here in Elk Grove and the people they hire to manage our affairs tend to have and oh so cozy relationships.
Over the last 30 years or so, the American public has been smacked over the head time after time and told that deregulation is primarily for their benefit. As this case illustrates, deregulation really means killing consumer protection - in this case flight safety.
The fact that this case has made it the public eye is amazing. How many other "civil servants" are out there tucked away in some department of some federal agency, let alone city hall, that are looking out not for the people, but the industry they are supposed to monitor or themselves?
So as the city of Elk Grove spends thousands of dollars in their executive search, lets hope they don't find or own Gawadzinski.
By the way, I wonder how many bags of peanuts and drink tokens Gawadzinski needed to give Southwest such preferential treatment?
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