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    <author><![CDATA[ACCOUNTABILITYorRESIGNATION]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Board Meeting tonight at 6:00pm. Open comments from the public are welcome beginning at 6:00.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:54:24 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Another Bitter Ex.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[So these guys finally got caught with their hands in the cookie jar. It’s about time!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Nom de Plume]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Shame on Metro Water! I have heard for years from former employees how this company sweeps things under the rug.
        
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      <![CDATA[I worked for Metro for 10 years and am not surprised at all about this. The way they intimidate their employees, and get away with so many infractions to the law such as this incident and singling out and specifically checking only 1 persons work to look for errors, keeping a large file on them alone to reprimand them and not the others in the same area is horrendous.
        
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      <![CDATA[As a district customer I found the Metro website comments first, it wasn't enough just to fire Mr. Hemway, Mr. Stratton used four pages to malign him publicly in every way. Accident my azz, it's clear to me they intended to hurt him and are still trying.
        
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      <![CDATA[The "insubordination" for which he was fired was pushing for the truth to come out about what really happened that day - that safety rules were violated by supervisors despite several employees' objections - and for changes to be made to keep everyone safe. Everything else was just an excuse to get rid of him and discredit him in case he went to the media.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Albert Vetere Lannon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Fact checker - Hemway appealed to the Board for whistleblower protection and received notice that he was fired the next day, not before. I was present at the Board meeting and no one present from management said anything about his being terminated.<br>
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Be advised also that General Manager Mark Stratton's rebuttal to Hemway posted on the Metro website September 7 was rewritten on September 11.<br>
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Also, as the primary author of that article, facts were checked and re-checked.
        
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      <![CDATA[Running your own water company while getting paid 200k per year from Metro Water and keeping your business partner as a favorite employee sounds a little fishy to me.  I wonder if this is why they keep raising water rates. Every little bit is needed to help run both metro and their personal water company.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Truck]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["And very pleased to see it revealed that Mark and Chris own another water company."<br>
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Why? What is wrong with that?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[walking here]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I ran for the Board last year with the intent of my way of giving back. There are so many things wrong with Mark Stratton's hold on Metro Water.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Headsup]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Was nearly killed, lost videos, wrong hoses, safety officer resignation, who is in charge at Metro Water District and have serious crimes been committed there? Who is to provide whistle blower protection anyway?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:01:30 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[LetTheInvestigationsBegin]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What a frightful thing to have gone through, and survived! 480 volts?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Sounds like this Henway dude is just trying to get revenge. They already investigated.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:19:54 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[marco]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Something doesn't jive. I went to the Metro Water website and saw this:<br>
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"Response to Tucson Weekly Article<br>
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A recent article in the Tucson Weekly makes a number of allegations against Metro Water District.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:31:04 -0700</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[MimiStudio22]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Wow! Is this a case of shooting the messenger or what?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:09:38 -0700</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[As a Metro Water consumer, but, more importantly, a person who can read one of these articles and come up with a serious case of "peee yewww;" something smells very bad in all of this mess, I can only say that this case has to go further to determne a clear and unprejudiced evaluation of the facts in this case. It sounds like this man, Mr. Hemway, was very concerned for not only his own, but others safety from electrocution.<br>
If Metro Water is, pardon me, "underwater" for debt, then they need to up the cost of water to it's users, as well as finding other ways to conserve.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 03:23:27 -0700</pubDate>
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