To me it seems very unfair of you to Mr. Sarsfield and to we of
the public to editorialize that he should resign. Apparently, he
has not read the report that was leaked to you nor has anyone else
other than the supervisors. Neither they nor their successors have
seen fit to take your stance. Have you spoken to the lady who wrote
the report?
Editor,
To me it seems very unfair of you to Mr. Sarsfield and to we of the public to editorialize that he should resign. Apparently, he has not read the report that was leaked to you nor has anyone else other than the supervisors. Neither they nor their successors have seen fit to take your stance. Have you spoken to the lady who wrote the report?
I was an Army officer for 28 years. During that time, I often worked in office environments such as the Pentagon where there were many civil service employees. Army officers were frequently reassigned, but the civilians usually spent many years in the same job. It was very difficult to fire civilians. Over the years, they developed ingrained habits and resented it when military officers tried to change them. I can feel for the new district attorney when he found employees who may have been biased toward him and resistant to change after many years under his predecessor.
As a newspaper editor you are free to fire your employees. Not so with the district attorney. They are job protected by the county. So the investigator who wrote the report may also have been protected by a similar system and sympathized with the employees.
What would you have done? As to the allegations of office romance, I note that the report from your account did not really corroborate this. If I recall, we have had presidents and senators in recent years who have been flagrantly guilty but the public has excused them. I don’t condone this but it is a private matter and only the spouses should be the judges.
John B. Fitch, Hollister
