EDITORIAL MONEY FOR NOTHING.THE 32-page report that former L.A. Animal Services Chief Guerdon guer·don n. A reward; recompense. tr.v. guer·doned, guer·don·ing, guer·dons To reward. [Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin Stuckey produced as part of his $50,000 get-out-of-town settlement did confirm one thing: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. was right to fire him. City officials agreed to pay Stuckey for a post-employment report after the short-lived chief was fired and threatened to sue. The purpose of the report was never entirely clear. Dutifully du·ti·ful adj. 1. Careful to fulfill obligations. 2. Expressing or filled with a sense of obligation. du and on time, Stuckey turned in his opus last week. The paper, which took 12 weeks to create, was, as we say in the news business, a rehash re·hash tr.v. re·hashed, re·hash·ing, re·hash·es 1. To bring forth again in another form without significant alteration: rehashing old ideas. 2. To discuss again. that offered no new insight. The money was never really about the report anyhow, but rather a payoff to ensure Stuckey would leave the job quietly. One could also look at it as combat pay for the things the embattled em·bat·tled adj. 1. Prepared or fortified for battle or engaged in battle: embattled troops; an embattled city. 2. bureaucrat endured for his 11-month tenure at the hands of the outraged animal activists -- death threats, a smoke bomb into his home, his wife run out of town. This is one report that will actually benefit the city by being stuck up on a dusty shelf. |
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