The Emporia Gazette

Posted on March 26 at 10:28 a.m.

toni,

First of all, the only "cleaning" that Eichorn has done is sweeping things under the rug. The idea that the poor performance deputies are the ones leaving is completely false. Eichorn's administration has promoted the people with the poor performance and has created nothing but tension between employees and the individual sections of the sheriffs department. He has ensured this from his first day in office by instituting a system of merit raises which seems to benefit the same people the most...his little minions. It is not based on what you do or how hard you work but rather on how many times you kneel before the masters sitting upon their ivory towers. As far as the "high standards" you speak of, yes i suppose if you do not work for the department then you might think the current administration has done nothing but improve things, but in truth, those things only look good on paper and thats the only thing that matters to Eichorn and Old. Policies change on a daily basis and are different for each minion or worse yet, each friend of Eichorns that might call or come in. Employees are expected to keep up with all the current daily changes even though they are never informed. In my own working experience, that sounds like an impossible working environment. As for Ms Mylnar's story about the shooting incident, I imagine Eichorn tried once again to divert the topic because he had nothing relevant to say about it. So he probably picked the Arndt shooting to indicate his ability to solve somewhat similar cases. After all, it is an election year so its about time to start hearing how much he has supposedly done. My guess is that his main concern was making sure that his buddy, Mr Gilligan, was not implicated in any way. This is what Eichorn does best. I would highly suggest that the voters start voting with their brains and not their party affiliations when voting for the next sheriff. I do not think that the sheriffs department could weather another four years with the Great and Powerful Oz and that slovenly vulgar man behind the curtain, Richard Old. If you want to know what is truly wrong with the sheriffs department then schedule a lunch meeting with the undersheriff. It should be more than evident by the completion of the first course.

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