Posted by Lou Pilder on September 13, 2006, at 14:29:21
In reply to Lou's response to aspects of this thread, posted by Lou Pilder on September 13, 2006, at 13:56:44
Friends,
It is written here,[...deputies doing a good job...]
Well, that is not usually the issue for impeachment, although the general poor job performance could be a reason to innitiate impeachment.
Many think that William Jefferson Clinton was doing a good job, but was there not an issue outside of his performance that innitiated the impeachment procedings? And Andrew Johnson and some that resigned thinking thst they could be impeached- Richard Nixon? And Spiro Agnew?
There are some generally accepted reasons that are used to impeach an official that are outside the fact that the official may be doing an overall good job. These reasons overide the official's ability to do his/her job.
we recently had an assistant supt. of schools here arrested for drunk driving. The school board impeached the assistant superintendent who had an excellant job performance. The school board's argument was that the employee's conduct, even outside the rhelm of emplotment was deterimental to the school. This is in the courts now and I think that the assistant supt. will prevail in this case.
But there was a teacher that called a student a name in class and was terminated (impeached). That teacher had an excellant job performance. The teacher lost on appeal.
You see, officials generally are held accountable in a different standard than non-officials because they generally are in a position of trust to others. The school board's argument against the assistant supt. is that the school does not endorse drunkeness and hold the employees to be exemplers.
A woman teacher here in a private religious school was recently terminated because the school held that only men can teach the bible to others.She had taught for many years and had a good performance record.
But in U.S. Supreme court vs Bob Jones University, the court did not accept their doctrine that those that belived in inter- racial marrige could be barred from being admitted to the college because their policy was racist and aginst the public's interest, even though it was a private school. This is an interesting opinion and was brought by the IRS to exclude the university from having a tax favore as a religious institution.
So there are issues of the public's interest as well as job performance?
Lou
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