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one more, this morning. almost funny if it wasn't dangerous
https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-skinny/Content?oid=29430752The Skinny
POOR SERVICE
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The public urination episode was only one of many that have required the Constable Ethics, Standards & Training Board to investigate and reprimand Vasquez in his first term as an elected constable with the job of delivering eviction notices and other legal summons. The string of abuses—including driving county cars at excessive speeds and smashing them up; chasing down a motorist after a near-miss accident at a four-way stop; and a recent failure to take online classes in driving safety and anger management—now has the constable ethics board asking the Pima County Board of Supervisors to suspend Vasquez without pay for at least 30 days.
The 144-page report compiled as background for supervisors to read reveals an elected official who just can't stay out of trouble.
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But that dust-up paled compared to the trouble with Vasquez's use of county cars as he drove around Precinct 4 to deliver legal notices and otherwise traveled for the job.
Vasquez has banged up so many county cars that he's no longer allowed to have one. And in his first months on the job, before the keys were taken away, Vasquez was driving in excess of 100 mph on highways with a maximum limit of 65, and was blazing at speeds as high as 79 mph down streets with speed limits between 25 and 45 mph. During a training in Maricopa County, Vasquez hit 103 on Roosevelt Street in Goodyear and 106 mph on West Target Road in Buckeye.
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POOR SERVICE
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The public urination episode was only one of many that have required the Constable Ethics, Standards & Training Board to investigate and reprimand Vasquez in his first term as an elected constable with the job of delivering eviction notices and other legal summons. The string of abuses—including driving county cars at excessive speeds and smashing them up; chasing down a motorist after a near-miss accident at a four-way stop; and a recent failure to take online classes in driving safety and anger management—now has the constable ethics board asking the Pima County Board of Supervisors to suspend Vasquez without pay for at least 30 days.
The 144-page report compiled as background for supervisors to read reveals an elected official who just can't stay out of trouble.
*snip*
But that dust-up paled compared to the trouble with Vasquez's use of county cars as he drove around Precinct 4 to deliver legal notices and otherwise traveled for the job.
Vasquez has banged up so many county cars that he's no longer allowed to have one. And in his first months on the job, before the keys were taken away, Vasquez was driving in excess of 100 mph on highways with a maximum limit of 65, and was blazing at speeds as high as 79 mph down streets with speed limits between 25 and 45 mph. During a training in Maricopa County, Vasquez hit 103 on Roosevelt Street in Goodyear and 106 mph on West Target Road in Buckeye.
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lots more at link this guy is a piece of cake that can't really be fired as he is elected - and nobody is running against him
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