Well, that’s what I thought seeing the headlines on the Sunday paper. After all, isn’t it customary in Lawrence to fire the whistleblower? I can think of several cases that got the boot for telling the truth.
As I read along, Sweeney, being a lawyer, took precautions filing for protection under the whistleblower law. That was probably unnecessary because, if it is a law, it should protect whistleblowers at all times, whether they knew there’s a law protecting them and not just if they took that step first.
Anyway, we must question who the real whistleblower is in this case. Sweeney got his information from someone else and if that is an employee, will that employee be then fired? Would Sweeney protect or let him or her fry? Did Sweeney find the perfect bullet to make Frank McCann seem incompetent? In that case, he could get fired, too.
All I know is that at this pace, taxpayers will be in debt for generations because they manage to sue the city and earn thousands of dollars. It boils down to having an absentee mayor. For a long time Mike Sullivan has been ignoring problems even when he was told. This proves that he was not following up on anything.
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