Daily Herald take on Seipler reinstatement

Just finished reading the Daily Herald's take on Judge Meyer's decision today in the matter of Nygren-Seipler drama.

If the Daily Herald is giving any thought to endorsing me after last night's interview, they probably won't after they read my comments.

First, if you haven't read the Daily Herald article, go to http://dailyherald.com/story/?id=411487

About all I can say is, what a load of horse manure! I've used other words already, but I won't write them here.

Nygren is "willing to try" reinstating Seipler? Hello??? Judge Meyer upheld the arbitrator. The arbitrator was right; Nygren was wrong. Nygren isn't going to get to "try"; he's going to reinstate Seipler and pay him for the past two years (minus three days). Or Nygren is going to appeal, if he can find a lawyer willing to risk his license and take on an appeal. Or Nygren is going to get sued. He doesn't get to "try". Now he gets to "do".

The Daily Herald couldn't wait past the second paragraph to sling mud at Seipler. Zane has paid the price. He is ready to go back to work. The arbitrator said three days without pay was appropriate discipline.

OK, Keith, you don't seem to have any trouble finding a place for deputies who drive drunk. Or how about a deputy who knocks another deputy around and gets 30 days off, but no criminal charges. Or a deputy who prevents an injured deputy from calling the police? Or the deputy in your office who told the Woodstock P.D. that no deputy got battered. Or a deputy who causes a crash and screams at a sergeant until the sergeant changes the report and records the not-at-fault citizen as "Unit 1", which means the County's claims jockey won't pay the $5,300 damages that the deputy caused. Or the sergeant who completed the fraudulent crash report.

You don't have any problems finding a place for them, do you? Or how many squad cars does a deputy need to wreck to keep getting promoted? No problem there; right?

But I digress...

Being the man with all the years of experience and the "leader" of 400+ employees, didn't Nygren foresee the possibility of this decision and have a plan ready? "Experience counts". That's what his political signs say. Counts for what? Delay? Procrastination? Denial?

Nygren told the Daily Herald reporter, ""Where I come from, when you perjure yourself and arrest innocent people, you are done being a policeman." Oh, really? Tell that to the Pavlins. And to the many others who have been falsely arrested by your deputies.

How about your own double-dipping on homestead exemptions? Enough for you to be done "being a policeman"? How about "85MPH in a 65MPH zone in Wisconsin, just to keep up with traffic"? I remember the day in your office when you made that statement to me.

How about those reports from the Deputy Woods' injury where two corrections officers used 71 words in exactly the same order? And the supervisor who approved their reports? That's okay with you?

You'll have Zane under a microscope. If he blows his nose in the squad car and uses the wrong brand of tissue, he'll get written up.