Thank you Gary for taking the moral high ground: Vilify and denigrate the whistle blowers, ignore the seriousness of the complaint, ignore the egregiously wrong headed initial and continuing responses of Carscalen and Button. You are indeed a wonderful role model for young Republicans everywhere.<br>
<br>w. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Gary Crabtree <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jampot@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">jampot@roadrunner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">As I suspected, less about the pill and
more about someone having their collective nose out of joint over their, their
friends, or their friends paramour de'jour not getting a position that they felt
sure they were more entitled to.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri">Boring. Moving on.</font></div>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 09, 2012 5:54 PM</div>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Fwd: Moscow fire chief denies drug
cover-up</div></div></div></div>
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<div>Donovan,</div>
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<div>The investigation at this point should be made at the personal integrities
for the command officers. The article in the Lewiston Tribune made that very
clear. It had a lot of double speak and finger pointing. They were essentially
agreeing with the complainants then at the same time, blaming them for the
result of this being brought to the attention of the public. </div>
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<div>If the woman in possession of the drugs had a prescription, she would have
not been asked to take a drug test. She could have easily explained that it was
rightfully hers...but instead she admitted and claimed it was oxycodone, and
willingly dumped it. If she had the right to have oxycodone she would have
fought throwing it away. </div>
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<div>Evidence is "tainted" because the officers in charge did not come to the
station to address the problem. They asked the firefighters who found the drugs
to deal with the situation. If those officers truly believed it could have been
explosive or hazardous, then a hazmat team should have been activated and police
and fire response would have been necessary, but instead those fire officers
stayed at home in their own beds and did not address this serious problem.</div>
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<div>Also, I would like to know where you are getting your information
concerning complaints against Dan Carscallen? Most people are too concerned for
their positions in the MVFD to speak up but there are many volunteers who are
concerned with his management style. The assault complaint was not bogus. He
found it his duty to respond to the hospital in the short amount of time it took
the ambulance to drive from Wal-Mart to confront a former MVFD member about
riding in the quick response vehicle...not the ambulance. Ben Dill did not have
any patient contact, he was merely with Shambaugh at the time of the call and
rode in the vehicle like so many other members have in the past. Yet
Carscallen felt it was ok to forcefully grab (not some light elbow touch) a
former member and citizen and significant other of a paramedic to demonstrate
his anger for proper paperwork?! The lead paramedic, and only paramedic on
the call was Bonnie Shambaugh, who was operating the quick response vehicle to
respond to the call. What federal law did Dill refuse to follow? Again, this
event happened AFTER the drug discovery. </div>
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<div>Furthermore, Dan Carscallen does not have 10 years of public service. He
has been a Basic level EMT for approx 5 years. He has been a firefighter for
even less. Yet he has politically won the position of Ambulance 1st Lt and Fire
Captain. He has the authority to run EMS operations when he have never sought
higher level EMT or firefighting certications. As far as I know, he took the
captains position without ever fighting a fire. He is unfit for more reasons
than what has been recently apparent in the newspaper. He has proven he cannot
think on his feet and he does not have the integrity to admit when he was wrong
and instead forces blame on those who reported the problem with the expectation
that he would do the right thing too.</div>
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<div>To go more into your claim about the discovery of the drugs...what makes
you think you know what the intentions of these firefighters were and what they
were doing at the time of the discovery? Obviously there is a lot that was left
out of the newspapers. To my knowledge the firefighters were all friends,
spending time in the room together on that night. A jewelery box was spotted in
the top desk drawer of one of the firefighters and thats when it became a
serious matter. Are you suggesting the firefighters should have returned the
jewelry box and not report the incident? Allow the firefighter to potentially
run calls, drive the fire engine, fight fire or assist with medical calls under
the influence? I dont know about you, but most college aged young women do not
ask permission to open jewelry boxes and what happened was not a crime. There
was no snooping in personal belonging or searching while the other firefighter
was asleep. That is an assumption on your part. These girls were all friends,
hanging out and despite that relationship knew they had the duty to report
the drugs.</div>
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<div>MCO</div>
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