New Assistant CEO to Join County in January

I guess we'll know who to talk to if the Mission gets grafittied again.

Y'all:

Unfortunately, Santa Barbara County’s newest assistant Chief Executive Officer, aka Human Resources appointee, Renée Bahl, appears to be so stupid, like her predecessor, Sue Paul, aka Suzilla, that she, Renée, doesn't know the difference between an accent aigu and an accent grave.

Specifically, when Renée graffitied her name upon the Arizona State monument that she was entrusted to protect, she got the accent backwards; that is, she etched an accent grave over the first "e" in Renée for all posterity to know her ignorance, instead of the appropriate accent aigu. For non-Frenchies: an accent aigu or "acute accent" is exactly that as depicted in Renée, slanting thick to thin from top to bottom from 2 o'clock to 8 o'clock; an accent grave, such as that with which Ms Bahl vandalized the Arizona monument with her name, is oriented from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock.
Ms Bahl's actual vandalism may be seen at:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepub...

How abjectly ignorant, dumb, stupid, vapid and evil does one have to be to not know how to spell her own first name, especially when she decides to violate the core trust she holds to chisel her name upon the very monument she guards?

Renée Bahl shall continue the tradition of ignorance and vileness that has populated the Santa Barbara County Human Resources Department for two decades, at least.

The reckoning inherent in now as then, nunc pro tunc, may hold an anagramatic clue to the essential baseness of Renée, her forbears, colleagues and them who chose her.

Michael Ganschow

To:
steve.lavagnino@countyofsb.org,
dfarr@countyofsb.org,
jwolf@sbcbos2.org,
SupervisorCarbajal@sbcbos1.org,
jgray@co.santa-barbara.ca.us

All y'all Supervisors:

As you can plainly see, Ms Bahl cannot even spell her own first name when vandalizing the very Arizona State monument she was entrusted to guard. A less-kind interpretation is that she thought she could hide her identity by reversing the accent aigu to an accent grave, a truly blonde thunk.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/vall...

We, the citizens of Santa Barbara, are left with the question as to her hire: What were you thunking?

Michael Ganschow

You have got to be kidding me, Ganschow. All of that because she "doesn't know the difference between an accent aigu and an accent grave." Riiiiight. How many people do? I mean besides you and some French instructors out at UCSB.

Much more important would be the proper use of the English language, wouldn't you think. Such as knowing the phrase, "... and them who chose her." is crappy writing. Also important would be proper spelling of the word "forebearers".

Brings to mind the phrase, "Hung by his own petard." We now know who is "... abjectly ignorant, dumb, stupid, vapid and evil..."

In 2009, or by Chandra Wallar's math, "years and years ago," the Arizona newspaper cited by zwoirie opined: "Bahl is no dummy -- her recent work as director of parks and recreation for San Diego County was touted by the man who led the selection committee. But her ethical judgment stinks -- not to mention the fact that she should have known she'd get caught. If you see Bahl touring any of our treasured state parks, do a favor for Arizona history -- keep an eye on her."

After too many years of an ethically challenged CEO, der Herr Brown (now supplementing his handsome SB County retirement package by working for COLAB, fer crissakes!), SB County needs a leader who wouldn't choose a friend and former colleague for her assistant, another outsider who is as unfamiliar with SB County as she is. Surely, there were qualified locals available. What Wallar's decision indicates is that her personal comfort in familiarity was more important than getting the absolute best person. Not a reassuring early move by Ms. Wallar...

Ms. Bahl under any conditions is an improvement over current Deputy CEO Maus-Nisich. She will only remain such as long as she doesnt' hire personal friends to run county departments. More accurately, run departments into the ground. As did former interim Parks Director Brian Roney. I hope Mr. Carter watches his back knowing that Mr. Roney would end run him in a heartbeat.

Here is a good resolution. Since Ms. Bahl has way more parks experience...why isn't she overseeing the Parks HUD Animal Control Dept? Seems logic once again is nowhere to been seen at the County Building.

My Bad. I guess she will oversee community services. Maybe Ms. Bahl you should get a good briefing on Mr. Roney. Good time to clean house of corruption

Umm, to me, that IS an accent aigu in the photo: lower on the left, rising to the right...but maybe we all see things differently! I love the direction comments go in sometimes ;-).

Oh, wait, Mr. Ganschow. I just read the rest of your comment and see that you appear to have reversed the descriptions of accent aigu: é (rising from what I would call 10 o'clock to 1 o'clock) and accent grave: è (descending from what I would call 11 o'clock to 2 o'clock)...although it's also possible that you were describing these accent marks working from right to left in the fashion of written Asian languages, instead of from left to right, as we normally do in the West? Or perhaps you are a leftie?

Regardless, people can judge for themselves in the photo whether she correctly wrote É or incorrectly wrote È and whether how she writes her name and what happened ten years ago has any bearing on her competency whatsoever.

Well said, Paguras. And is Waller the same employee who has allowed top oil execs to buy her time and ear, while serving them dinner? Wow... sounds like some serious judgement issues from Waller and Bahl...

Well, someone has his knickers in a twist, for sure.

And as Pimms says, the accent in the photo is aigu. An accent grave looks like this `. Leaning backward, you might say.

But seriously, I don't feel so good about having anyone who would scratch her/his name into a historic monument (with or without appropriate accent marks) working in county government. Even if it was ten years ago, as if that's ancient history.

Why not someone local?? Many talented administrative types exist in SB.

Yes, Waller is the same person who had the great idea of serving dinner to the highest bidders... (oil execs won), and now she is bringing her buddies to the party. Really, can't we find better (local) candidates to fill these jobs, including Wallers!?!