[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's almost unbelievable -- The DN took that crap about John Fenton
violatingUCD's "code of ethics" that Wendell Lewis threw in his recent interview in
the UCReview and somehow considered it gospel.
Al (It must be true, I read it in the paper) Krigman
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Univ. City official loses post
He used community-service workers for Tom Knox rally
By BOB WARNER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) 215-854-5885
The director of operations at the University City District, a nonprofit
community organization, has lost his job after using community-service workers to
set up a pre-election rally for mayoral candidate Tom Knox.
It didn't take long for John Fenton to find another position.
He's now on the payroll at City Council, working for Councilwoman Jannie
Blackwell as director of community activities, at $45,000. Blackwell had formed
a pre-election alliance with Knox and, in an interview with WPVI-TV, took
responsibility for the rally that cost Fenton his job.
Sources say that Blackwell pressured the University City District to give
Fenton six months' pay — about $34,000, under his old $68,141 annual salary —
in a settlement leading to his resignation.
But the councilwoman is still angry about the controversy, blaming the
University of Pennsylvania, which is the district's biggest source of money.
"I am at war with Penn," Blackwell reportedly told a group of political and
community leaders two weeks ago, in a meeting at Turner Middle School. "No
one even talked to me about [the district] or John Fenton."
Neither Blackwell nor Fenton has returned calls from the Daily News going
back to May 16, when the newspaper published a story based on the experience of
a Penn graduate student, Luke Walker.
Walker showed up at the district's offices last month to begin 20 hours of
community-service work. After cleaning streets for an hour or two, Walker and
others were assigned to set up barbecue grills, coolers, signs and inflatable
bounce toys at a Knox for Mayor rally at Malcolm X Park in West
Philadelphia.
"It was bizarre," Walker told the Daily News. "All of a sudden I found
myself working for the Tom Knox campaign and wondering, 'How did I get here?'...It
wasn't even in University City."
The district's executive director, Lewis Wendell, ordered an internal
investigation.
In an interview published last week in the University City Review, Wendell
reported that Fenton had been involved in several other activities "involving
a misuse of [district] resources and violations of several [district]
policies."
Wendell said he was barred by Fenton's resignation agreement from providing
any details.
But in general, he told the Review, Fenton had violated the district's code
of ethics; policies forbidding the private use of district vehicles,
equipment or facilities; and IRS guidelines that prohibit charities from
participating in political campaigns.
yikes! what an indictment of ucd. not only have they
violated their own policies and those of the irs, they're
admitting to repeat offenses and alienation with blackwell.
it's amazing how ucd could allow this article's appearance
to follow so closely upon wendell's interview in last week's
uc review. both articles make ucd look corrupt, make
wendell's leadership look inept, expose ucd's rift with
blackwell.
yet another mishandling of the media... maybe the long
silent dp will salvage something from this mess...
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