How sad that elected officials and their cronies behave like tweens in middle school. The most egregious example I viewed online elsewhere, in which the Mayor's Chief of Staff barraged a county official with obscenities and degradation. Made me wonder if he was sober at the time.

I get that we all say things by text we don't intend for public consumption. But Stop_Making_Sense appears to be ignoring that these communications were presumably made on their work/city-provided phones (how else would they be part of a public records request?). Rule #1 in professional life, which Commissioner Novick apparently gets, is don't put anything in writing you don't want to see "on the front page". It's common sense and something these individuals apparently completely lack. Perhaps s/he doesn't want more from individuals entrusted with serving the public; I do.

Hales' decision to bury O'Dea's drunken recklessness was bad enough. His dismissive condescension towards our likely reaction? Sickening.