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Who is the Hypocrite?

Is there a bigger hypocrite in state government than Charles L. Ryan? Let’s look at his record and reflect for a moment what he has done for Arizona. Going for his second term as the director of Arizona prisons, he is set to be re-appointed by Governor Doug Ducey, who apparently ignored the fatality rate inside the prisons and the high costs of litigation defending the state against class action lawsuits and other wrongful death cases too many to mention.

Is there a bigger hypocrite in state government than Ryan? I suppose we can start looking at the state legislature but that would be doing exactly what Charles Ryan does best, deflect, deceive and blame somebody else. Ryan can re-furbish his office, his precious glass wall that protects him from others and symbolizes the barriers he has built since taking over in 2009 as the director of the state’s biggest agency and also the most expensive budget cost.

Leading with questions why he is the biggest hypocrite, there is the question of prison management as a fiscal responsible person. He has failed to control or reign in the extreme costs of running prisons by asking the legislature consecutive times for more money. As a fiscal conservative approach, this is a failed process. Each and every year, this agency has received a supplement to stay afloat.

Under his direction and command he has promised to take care of his 10,000 employee agency from the moment he took office. First, he changed the definitions of staff assaults to manage the reports better. That didn’t help as he filled up detention unit with record high special needs prisoners very expensive to house. Second, he locked up more prisoners into the most expensive custody level there is in corrections, max custody, and third, he asked for more money to double bunk max custody, add max custody beds and deliver more prisoners to the system as time goes by.

Sadly, this hypocrite of a man never reigned in the prison gangs that flourish their sales with heroin, meth and other drugs. He never addressed the protective custody dilemma that was created by the high rate of inmate on inmate assaults. He never stopped the drug flow into the prisons and he boasted about the arrest and discipline of well over six hundred staffers when in fact, he should have focused on staff retention, selection and recruitment process and better working conditions for staff. Blaming the vacancy rate on the former administration, he deliberately forced early retirements, resignations and terminations to create an experience void that can never be replaced causing major operational problems and security concerns for those left behind.

Instead of shrinking the agency, he has expanded the growth causing extreme fiscal pressure and stress on other responsibilities to the state budget including education, children protection, healthcare and many more. In the process, he has lined up consecutive victories for private prison contractors to pick up profit margins in bed space, commissary, healthcare as well as visitation and telephone fees that are designed to be one of the highest in the country.

He made Arizona, a well-deserved and profitable in mass incarceration haven for other contractors to follow and establish their own profit sharing motives as they continue to bribe legislators friendly to the thought of lining their pockets with money from this corporate pocket of wealthy donators to the political system in exchange for their preferred status as a repeat and satisfied customers.

If this was a football game, he would be accused of running up the score on the taxpayers who are footing his expensive bill. If this was a championship playoff game, he would have sacrificed his own staff and key personnel to allow the other team to win and win big. His lack of care, compassion and loyalty to his own team is shameful and should be cause for his removal.

However, that won’t happen because the governor is pulling for the other team as well and wants them to win at any cost. Even if the game is thrown by the coach. A man who deliberately created chaos and mass confusion within his own team and one who refused to score, win and play by the rules so the other team can win. Today, after the final whistle was blown to signal the end, there were two victors after the game, the private prison business and the inmates who control the prisons by default and neglect.

Sadly, letting the other team run up the score and putting our players in harm’s way is not only an embarrassment to the state but a hypocrite way to show when he says he really doesn’t care about the staff and the taxpayers of the state. Letting state resources go to make the other team look good was his goal and even when he played his best, he never really scored one point for the right reasons.

A Fistful of Arrogance

A Fistful of Arrogance

Today’s culture has changed. Leadership styles have been questionable and words are often perceived to be words of arrogance rather than confidence.  Most important, the bar of credibility has been lowered to the point there is hardly any credibility left in the person’s speech, promises or rhetoric when running or holding a public office.

There is so much arrogance in government today, there is no fear of being questioned or held accountable for what they do or say anymore. There is no fear of people criticizing you or your policies as many flaws are being overlooked just because you are managing to hold the line on the pre-determined agendas of today’s priorities and playing the manipulation game to its end.

Yesteryear, you would be verbally and publically flogged, terminated, disbarred, indicted or re-called from public office, if you broke your promises or failed to meet your campaign speechmaking dialogue. Today, the opposite is true as there is a high tolerance to mismanagement, unethical conduct, and other character flaws that used to get you fired, sought out and punished for.

Even the media won’t confront the liars and multiple false prophets who claim to do the things that need to be done but shun away from actually doing what needs to be done for political gain. There are no risks and no dire consequences for lying and arrogance only grows when the public ignorance shows the reality of forgiveness and excessive tolerance to such misconduct.

The truth be told, this makes mediocre government officials great as they are never called on the carpet and marks those who meet the standard even greater guaranteeing them a reelection or reappointment to another term of public service. Most public officials do a lousy job of working for the people. People get sucked into the public relations game that focuses on distractions and deflections ensuring the people will soon forget this scandal or any other problem addressed and soon forgotten.

Some are aware while others don’t care in spite of the repercussions of bad government. Arrogance, ignorance and sheer incompetence is rampant and nobody cares. The moral compass is broken and nobody takes heed to the warnings of video, news stories and other venues of facts presented to the public as the truth has been hidden, changed or distorted.

There is no honor any longer and there are plenty of mistakes happening daily. Some are not mistakes. They are deliberate efforts to break the law.  Today it’s more about talent to lie than to possess integrity and tell the truth.

The word respect has been politically altered to give a meaningless impact to the challenge of standards of performance once all public officials were held to at a higher bar.  It is no longer disrespectful to tell a lie and cover up the truth. At least, that’s the rule unless you get caught.

Public officials throw around their weight and egos and don’t fear to get into other’s way. You are not held accountable for your faults but rather praised for overcoming the challenge and creating a perception of being a reformer or game changer. They learn how to reverse the finger pointing and simply point the finger at the opposite direction.

There is no personal responsibility. It is now acceptable to blame someone or something else even if it was within your own span of control. Denials and rebuttals are quickly and hastily thrown around to distract from the issues at hand and give the matter no credibility at all as they are either whistleblowers, disgruntled employees or just ignorant people who rant and raves for whatever reasons and randomly devaluated and marginalized.

Instead of having skills, experience and good work habits, you are rated for your ability to please your audience or constituents, how you answer the questions without answering them and working your charm and charisma to win over the crowds. Whatever the topic, a politically correct well written public announcement pleases the people who will soon forget this moment and many more like these.

  

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