Stockton mayor needs suspension
Oct 27, 2009 | 799 views | 1 1 comments | 17 17 recommendations | email to a friend | print
I just read, with great interest, the account of officer Josh Rowell giving a ticket to the son of Mayor Dan Rydalch of Stockton (“Stockton cop suspended after ticketing mayor’s son during checkpoint stop,” Oct. 22). Assuming the Transcript-Bulletin accurately portrayed the encounter — and I have no reason to believe otherwise — this should prove to be a major embarrassment for the mayor. It’s a big reach to consider that police officers should find it necessary to consult with the mayor as to whom and for what a ticket may be given. Officer Rowell was doing his job. No one is above the law. Given the nature of his assignment, how could he have fulfilled it any better? If clarification was needed for the manner in which the situation was handled, it should have been provided in a professional way. The mayor needs a dose of humility and at least two of maturity. Officer Rowell is not the one who should be suspended.

Scott Burris

Tooele

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« slick551951 wrote on Thursday, Nov 05 at 02:13 AM »
As a former resident of Tooele I fully agree with Scoot Burns assessment of the Mayors actions. It sounds like situations haven't changed in the Tooele area since I left there nearly 12 years ago. It comes down to the old additive of it not who you know etc. I feel that it should be the Mayor to be suspended. Maybe the people of Stockton will take care this in the electoral process. It's situations such as this that make not wanting to come back there to Tooele.
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