Gail Wilcox lands a new job
April 12, 2010 5:45 pm
David Edge & Gail Wilcox
Former Assistant County Administrator Gail Wilcox, who was fired last year by the county board of supervisors, has landed a new position. [Tribune].
Wilcox is being retained by the San Luis Obispo County Employees Association (SLOCEA) on a contract basis to conduct a job classification and compensation survey.
Wilcox will not be involved directly in contract negotiations for the 1,400 member association. The county supervisors fired both Wilcox and County Administrator David Hedge last spring following allegations of sexual harassment.
Kimm Daniels of the County Employees Association said the SLOCEA board of directors hired Wilcox because of her experience. Her job will be to study county job classifications issues.
We hired her because of her experience ? Oh Kimmie, she really knows how to collect information for jobs that she has zero clue about and not any personal connection to. Purely a bureaucratic line of BS to hire someone you’ve had a previous relationship with. That’s right, shes the only one who could pull this one off ? Salary undisclosed, hmmm. This is an extremely time consuming and an imperfect science, collecting these job comparisons from other agencies that she has been supposedly hired to perform. This could have been done in a competent fashion by most any experienced H.R. professional. Also, please be evenhanded when dishing out disdain for the county employees. The majority of them that I have dealt with are decent and honest public servants. As far as I am concerned I couldn’t think of a better way to ingratiate oneself back with the Board of Supervisors and the public than to try to legitimize yourself on the backs of decent people. Why not help them cut the employees compensation and possible benefits packages while your at it. Or make an appearance like your trying to be a legitimate source of unbiased information. Especially after a major sexual peccadillo like sleeping with lets say a married man with children. Nice judgment. Are you kidding me. But shes better now. Then to boot, claim sexual harassment from the head administrator that previously hired you, coo coo.This is a blatant disregard for the membership of SLOCEA. The hiring of this misguided tramp is in poor judgment and professionalism. How uncomfortable will the future negotiators feel that have to deal with a rabble like this. Looks like it is suicide by there own hands and thus making any reasonable negotiations for the public and the counties staff purely a joke.
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Is it any wonder why SLO county is mired in corruption and larceny?
Reward the morally inept with new jobs, Celebrate the criminally insane with citizen of the year.
Put up with a local paper that is worse than having no newspaper at all.
Hire pedophiles to run the schools.
SLO county needs a flushing out, but nobody has the will to pull the lever.
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Information is power. Gail knows where all of the skeletons are hidden and is certainly knowledgable on how to get her way in county government. However, ones past behavior is an indicator of future performance. So, to hire her is the same as courting the devil, in my opinion. Her past demonstration of a shortage of integrity will predictable cost the employees union in some way. If she slept with the enemy in the past, she will likely do it in the future.
It has been interesting to watch how all of the county government system had turned corrupt and piece by piece fallen apart. David Edge is gone, sheriff Hedges disgraced and divorced, undersheriff disgraced and alone, Tony Perry humiliated his wife and should be divorced, the Deputies union dissolved and split into two groups and Bordonaro’s head is on the block.
Unfortunately, there were so many careers destroyed and people hurt in the process. At least there is light at the end of the tunnel and we can only hope it isn’t from a train.
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………..
ho, ho, ho!
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Great, just great. Gail has been hired to tell SLOCEA how many times she slept with each of the supervisors and provide the videos she has. SLOCEA will take that information to the bargaining table and the taxpayers will get it again. And once again unlike our immoral and corrupt politicians we won’t get kissed first. One of these days we should get kissed first. I mean after this many times we deserve a little foreplay…..But no all we get is sand in the vaseline thanks to Gibson and Katcho and the crew.
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Brilliant. SLOCEA is upset with the favoritism of public safety personnel during the budget discussions because SLOCEA represented staff were taking a bigger hit than say, the sheriffs department. The negotiations with the safety ie sheriffs department are handled by Gail and now she is working for SLOCEA. Kimm’s being smart – maybe- if you want your bargaining units to get the best bargaining, maybe Gail can help identify and maybe not. Might as well get someone who knows how to do the job. Come on people, enjoy the irony and let’s move onto the next slice of delicious non-gossip.
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Enjoy the irony???
Your reasoning boils down to a simple competition between SLOCEA staff and the sheriff’s department. As much as I hate to think about it, it might be just that simple.
Once again, the taxpayer takes it in the shorts without even the courtesy of a reach around.
Hubris trumps all!
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wilcox received hundreds of thousands of dollars from salary and settlements for very inappropriate
actions . herself with questionable quialification , she is hired to study county job classifications issues .
CLASSY SLOCEA !!!
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I was fully prepared to open this article and read that she landed the Deep Throat movie sequel.
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“Water-gail”sounds better, but “Wilcox-gate” makes more sense.
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I can’t put my finger on the hoopla surrounding Kimm Daniels last year — wasn’t there an ouster of some sort at the CEA?
Do Wilcox and Daniels have a history of shade?
Perhaps I am misremembering.
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Must be that time of year where city, county, and elected officials come out of the wood work to either mess up, screwup or worst yet be a pervert. Interesting this is all happening today.
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Her past history isn’t just tainted because of David Edge, she’s done a number of shady things. What a stupid move by the CEA. I can’t believe that they couldn’t find anyone else that is just as much if not more qualified than Wilcox. They are asking for trouble.
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Considering how Gail Wilcox’s past behavior has poorly reflected upon county employees I am dismayed that SLOCEA board of directors hired her for this contracted position. I hope the SLOCEA board hears from their members and that they are voted out at the first opportunity.
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Collective Information
I do not know either one of them, but I do have a friends (Retired PGE) whose spouses worked for the county and have to interact with David Edge. In short: He is a sick no good SOB or sicko.
It does not surprise me that Gale Wilcox is saved by rehire to some position. Her experience is not the sole justification for a rehire, it is because others know what kind of person Edge was! Normally a person involved in such an incident would never be rehired to any position. Kudos to Kimm Daniels for her poetic courage.
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Willie, Gail Wilcox got herself terminated all on her own. She didn’t need any help from David Edge. They were both guilty of improper conduct. Gail definitely “personally” engaged in activities that are always considered a conflict of interest and she did so on more than one occasion. You obviously didn’t follow the CCN investigative reports surrounding her affair with Perry (a married man) who was representing the county Sheriffs Association while they were negotiating a contract renewal together.
You missed all her childish e-mails written during work hours and on county computers about all her sexual exploits and man chasing.
You missed the story about how she purchased her home with the help of the county attorney who had a perpetual “no bid” contract to provide services.
The SLOCEA has some explaining to do, their decision was a slap in the face to the citizens they serve. I have no doubt that Gail will come up with whatever it is that they are looking to justify.
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Cindy
Thank you
I really did not know all of that.
Your the first to explain it and I appreciated it very much.
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Cindy
I spend most of my media time on the stock market.
I am updated to local news by what I see reported.
I am fortunated to get extra insight, even at the cost of getting bashed.
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I know you didn’t know and I figured you were wondering why you were getting slammed with so much red. It would be nice if people took the time to explain why they don’t agree with a post. Sometimes it’s obvious to the person who wrote it, in this case I know you were in the dark.
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