KTVT-Channel 11
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KTVT-Channel 11's got the goods: video from Dallas County Commissioners Court today, where Item No. 6c on today's agenda was, simply, "Sheriff Overtime." Nothing simple about it, though, as John Wiley Price and Ken Mayfield went at it over the amount of dough being paid to deputies working extra shifts during construction on the new jail -- as in, Price is for it; Mayfield, against it. Nice to see Dallas County Judge Jim Foster break up the goddamned bullshit ... oh, wait, he didn't. --Robert Wilonsky
Im no Democrat but JWP know more about the whats happening in the jails than anyon else, including Lupe. He makes all the important meetings, shows up unannounced several times a week to look at schedules and problems, and has been doing so for more than a year.
I no Bowles fan either, but he was right when he said the majority of the problems now in the limelight can be laid directly at the feet of the Commissioner's Court refusals to fund staff, improvements, and other things the Dept has asked for at least since I started in 1992. The worst grandstanding obstructionists? Jim Jackson, now gone elsewhere, and Ken Mayfield.
JWP used to be part of that problem, but has had a change of heart since he rolled up his sleeves and came to see for himself. what the problems were.
I have never seen Mayfield at the jail unless there were television cameras to play to.
Posted at: April 30, 2008 11:31 AM