County Commission considering two retreads for top post

The County Commission is hiring a new County Manager; they have picked seven finalists, link.

Two of them come with baggage; Ed Adams and Bruce Perlman, and the sweet deal Perlman gave Adams when they worked for CABQ together. Journal editors even stepped up (at the time) to protest the deal, link. It remains to be seen if they will step up again rather than let Adams and Perlman skate through the hiring process unscathed.

A while back, when Adams ran
the Department of Municipal
Development, there was a huge
scandal where a the nephew of
a crony of Mayor Marty Chavez
bilked the city out of hundreds
of thousands of dollars,
link.

It was Adams' job to keep it from
happening. It was a systemic failure that allowed the corruption. He owned the system, he failed to protect taxpayer interests.


His consequence; a sweet deal from Perlman.

More of the good ol' boys taking care of each other. And now both their names have floated to the top in a process that seems to be ignoring character and competence in qualifying candidates.

So what if Adams built a ballpark and a bridge; lots of people can build bridges and ballparks. He failed to protect public resources from being abused.

City and County residents deserve a fresh start; someone whose top priority is combating public corruption and incompetence, and not enabling and rewarding them.




photos Mark Bralley