Let’s say you need a new player for your baseball team and you have two applicants. One has played pro ball for 30 years, has an extraordinary batting average and record number of home runs, commonly pitches no-hitters, steals bases like a gazelle, and can play every position effectively. He is praised by the governor of Vermont.
The other applicant plays a little ball on the weekend with his buddies.
Who would you hire? Our new assembly just made a shockingly disturbing decision to hire the weekend warrior instead of the pro as borough manager. In spite of a valiant, eloquent and rational plea from assembly member Kevin Forster.
In other highlights, interim borough manager Elke Doom apparently failed to notice that the most qualified applicant’s 3 pages of references were arranged chronologically, with the most recent listed, as one might expect, at the end. But why look there?
Eric Holle