City cutting ties with Hylant Group - Executive who sent anti-Obama e-mails has resigned

[kpete]

Source: Herald Times

City cutting ties with Hylant Group Executive who sent anti-Obama e-mails has resigned

Bloomington will suspend its work with Hylant Group of Bloomington after a vice president sent an insensitive and racially charged e-mail on his company account, Mayor Mark Kruzan said Saturday.

Also, a Hylant Group executive said Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of Denton "Denny" Flahualt, the Hylant vice president who sent the racially charged e-mail.

Hylant does not have a contract with the city, but acts as a middleman between the city and insurance carriers. Hylant reviews and analyzes insurances plans from carriers and then provides the city with input as to which plan the city should choose. The insurance carriers, and not the city, pay Hylant.

Kruzan said it was a combination of the inappropriateness of the e-mail and the company’s response to it that led to his decision.



Read more: http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2009/09/27/news.qp-8875498.sto?1254070979

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alternate link:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/27/786966/-Racist-Email-Costs-Bloomington-IN-Exec-His-Job
more:
http://hisvorpal.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/health-ins-vp-sends-obama-hate-mail-on-company-account/

[No Elephants]

1. Flauhault is a steaming pile, and so is his company.

"Hylant reviews and analyzes insurances plans from carriers and then provides the city with input as to which plan the city should choose. The insurance carriers, and not the city, pay Hylant."

I'm sure there's no conflict of interest inherent in that arrangement. I trust Hylant to give the city the best advice for the city, no matter which insurer pays Hylant what. I also trust the insurers not to build Hylant's fees into their contract with the city, so that the city does not end up paying Hylant to give the city advice based on the best interests of the insurers.

:sarcasm:



What on earth is wrong with people anymore?

[tabatha]

2. Unbelievable.

[Tansy_Gold]

3. Allow me to play devil's advocate a bit

I did not see anything overtly and particularly racist in any of the cartoons included in Mr. Flahualt's email. They were not, as far as I could see, a whole lot different from many of the similar cartoons circulated about boooosh. We had our Hitler/booosh comparisons. We had our booosh as a monkey (a play on "Incurious George"). We had booosh haloed and boooosh playing with toy soldiers. We had boooosh as the oil junkie. To a boooosh supporter all those images were probably every bit as offensive as these of Obama are to us.

That said, however, it is -- or should be -- grossly inappropriate for anyone to use their company-paid email account to distribute politically-charged material. For that reason, Mr. Flahualt should be let go. Presumably his employer is paying him to do a specific job, not send out political cartoons.


Tansy Gold, who really hates that she's defending this worthless piece of crap but nonetheless. . . . .

[Anakin Skywalker]

6. "We" Are Not

in this @$$clown's powerful and influential position. We are working class people whose lives Boosh ruined with his shit ideas! What has Obama ever done to Flahualt?

[Downwinder]

4. How can you trust the judgment of someone who sends an email like that?

He and his company should issue a public apology to all Americans and not through a pay per view or subscription service.

[johnfunk]

5. A few anagrans for Denton Flahualt

Fathead Null Not
Ad Flatulent Hon
Taunted Fall Hon
Had Flatulent No
Handout Tan Fell