Know Your Surroundings

Ordinarily, I wouldn't pass comments as such, but this needs to be said. Our district attorney has done it again. He has managed to bring unnecessary attention to himself and the office. Just when I thought there was nothing else that could put the spotlight on the office, his ass managed to do it. His chief investigator has been conducting a surveillance/investigation of a top figure in the NOPD for no legal reason. In fact, the office had to apologize for the intrusion and released a statement that there is no pending investigation against this person. The problem with this is our district attorney has made bad decisions since day one. When he was elected, upon taking office he entrusted someone to hire new people and fire people under the old administration. Eventually he was sued for discrimination, and now the office owes these people millions that was awarded in the lawsuit.

As much as I hate to make this next statement, it needs to be said. Affirmative action can have bad repercusions. There is no reason why our district attorney should have been U.S. Attorney and there is no reason why he should have been elected as district attorney. This man knows absolutely nothing about the law. Its pathetic and difficult to say that I actually work for him. He doesn't know state law so I can imagine he knew very little federal law-if any at all. In addition to him coming from the federal level of prosecution, he brought in people from the federal level and placed them in high ranking positions in the office. Guess what? They don't know anything either!!!!! If you don't know the daily functions of an office, if you don't know the law, and if you don't know anything about investigation tactics, then surround yourself with people who do!!! Don't place people there just because they're your friends, they're black, they're your lunch buddies on a daily basis. Award people positions because they can get the damn job done. And even if they are not familiar with the system, select someone who is competent enough to take the initiative to learn it. Don't surround yourself with bafoons because at the end of the day, its your name in the paper, and your face on the news. The people he surrounded himself with has been the cause of all of his problems. This man has to be the only polician in history to have a good reputation prior to taking office, and at the end of his term have the worst reputation ever. His legal career is probably at an end. No law firm will hire him. No organization will support him financially for another campaign, and I don't know many people who will vote for him again. The only place he can possibly gain employment would be at a predominately black university/law school.

And most importantly.....don't be stubborn. When someone offer advice, listen!!! All of the good advice he received came from outside sources. It was the jackasses he trusted that fucked him.