Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes are blatantly one-sided in their treatment of absenteeism. While the record for April 20, 1976 notes sympathetically that Danehy "was unable to be present," it adds somewhat less ceremoniously, "Commissioner Ralph being absent." Ralph and McLaughlin were equally non-existent at the meeting of July 13, 1976, but the minutes, "Paul F. Ford, under order dated Jan. 13, 1976, acted for Commissioner McLaughlin--Commissioner Ralph being absent...
This last entry in the minutes brings up another cause for dispute. McLaughlin and Danehy say county commissioners can have their executive assistants act in meetings as surrogates for them, provided that a majority of the board approves this provisional transfer of voting power every year. Ralph interprets the law to mean that an executive assistant can act for an absent commissioner only if the remaining two commissioners authorize him to do so, and that this authorization must be renewed for each meeting. If Ralph is correct, then many of the meetings held in the last two years have been...
...controversy over surrogate commissioners reached its most emotional point at a meeting last November 23 when Paul F. Ford and Thomas F. Gibson, executive assistants for McLaughlin and Danehy respectively, acted on behalf of their bosses. Ralph challenged the acting commissioners' credentials, claiming that none of the commissioners had appointed surrogates that year. The minutes record the following interchange...
...Ralph: Each man has to get two other names--since I didn't sign for anyone, there are none...
...Ralph: Shit on your legal opinion! You wouldn't know a law if you tripped over...