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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #540 on: January 17, 2017, 08:17:53 AM »
Expect the announcement of a new Chief "soon"....
Bigtex:  "Soon" has come and gone, so if you know something; share it, because I will die of old age waiting for Unsworth to do something.
The rumor mill is saying that Phil Johnson has been tapped. The actual job announcement has been removed...So it appears they have someone...

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #541 on: January 18, 2017, 10:45:19 AM »
Expect the announcement of a new Chief "soon"....
Bigtex:  "Soon" has come and gone, so if you know something; share it, because I will die of old age waiting for Unsworth to do something.
The rumor mill is saying that Phil Johnson has been tapped. The actual job announcement has been removed...So it appears they have someone...

I don't know Phil Johnson at all, and am not sure I would recognize him if I saw him, but I have always heard he is a fair and honest man, which would make for a drastic improvement over the WDFW administrators of the past decade.  I am more than a little confused as to what is taking so long for Unsworth to do anything. 

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #542 on: January 18, 2017, 11:09:17 AM »
Expect the announcement of a new Chief "soon"....
Bigtex:  "Soon" has come and gone, so if you know something; share it, because I will die of old age waiting for Unsworth to do something.
The rumor mill is saying that Phil Johnson has been tapped. The actual job announcement has been removed...So it appears they have someone...

I don't know Phil Johnson at all, and am not sure I would recognize him if I saw him, but I have always heard he is a fair and honest man, which would make for a drastic improvement over the WDFW administrators of the past decade.  I am more than a little confused as to what is taking so long for Unsworth to do anything.
I'll say all I know about Phil. About 15 years of law enforcement experience, all with WDFW. Prior to that a pretty long stint in the military. His promotions have all been in HQ positions, never supervised a commissioned employee that I've heard of. So with that it feels awkwardly similar to Crown's WDFW experience. Obviously different people bring different traits. That being said, I've never heard anything bad about him.

And like I said, that's just the rumor mill pick. But it appears they do have someone since the job announcement has been pulled.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #543 on: January 18, 2017, 11:14:18 AM »
Expect the announcement of a new Chief "soon"....
Bigtex:  "Soon" has come and gone, so if you know something; share it, because I will die of old age waiting for Unsworth to do something.
The rumor mill is saying that Phil Johnson has been tapped. The actual job announcement has been removed...So it appears they have someone...

I don't know Phil Johnson at all, and am not sure I would recognize him if I saw him, but I have always heard he is a fair and honest man, which would make for a drastic improvement over the WDFW administrators of the past decade.  I am more than a little confused as to what is taking so long for Unsworth to do anything.
I'll say all I know about Phil. About 15 years of law enforcement experience, all with WDFW. Prior to that a pretty long stint in the military. His promotions have all been in HQ positions, never supervised a commissioned employee that I've heard of. So with that it feels awkwardly similar to Crown's WDFW experience. Obviously different people bring different traits. That being said, I've never heard anything bad about him.

And like I said, that's just the rumor mill pick. But it appears they do have someone since the job announcement has been pulled.

I agree with two points of clarification; I don't think you will find anyone who would say Crown was a dedicated hard-working employee, while I have heard such about Phil.  And Phil at least appears to be capable of making decisions on his own, rather than just being a lapdog for Cenci.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #544 on: January 30, 2017, 05:11:21 PM »
The Chief's job announcement is back open. The first review of applications will occur February 28th, final interviews will be in April. It looks like the job will have been vacant for probably close to, or over a year before a new Chief officially starts. The agency has contracted with an outside firm to recruit for the position.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #545 on: January 30, 2017, 05:29:53 PM »
Interesting?

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #546 on: January 30, 2017, 05:46:45 PM »
The Chief's job announcement is back open. The first review of applications will occur February 28th, final interviews will be in April. It looks like the job will have been vacant for probably close to, or over a year before a new Chief officially starts. The agency has contracted with an outside firm to recruit for the position.
No takers? A job like that, with no political trappings and a highly enthused staff with morale at an all time high - it's a dream come true!
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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #547 on: January 31, 2017, 06:15:45 AM »
Wow, the last time WDFW did a "Nation-wide" search, they magically came up with the guy right there in the Olympia office; Steve Crown.  Let's hope they expand this search beyond the walls of the Natural Resource building.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #548 on: January 31, 2017, 11:26:10 AM »
Go to www.wdfwinvestigation.com and click on "The Twin Pillars of WDFW integrity; Hobbs and Cenci"
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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #549 on: February 11, 2017, 06:04:56 AM »
Take a look at Director Unsworth's presentation to the Senate Ways and Means Committee:
www.tvw.org/watch/?clientID=9375922947&eventID=2017011402&eventID=2017011402&autoStartStream=true

You will want to start the video at 01:01:00, then make sure and watch it through 01:11:45

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #550 on: February 11, 2017, 07:19:26 AM »
Wow.
Looks like that guy has near zero credibility, and perhaps completely out of touch.
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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #551 on: February 11, 2017, 08:05:02 AM »
Wow.
Looks like that guy has near zero credibility, and perhaps completely out of touch.

He has basically done nothing at all to fix the internal problems in WDFW, and I guess people are finally starting to notice.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #552 on: February 11, 2017, 08:26:02 AM »
It is really a shame they cannot focus on the publics thoughts and desires and officers safety and ability to do their job without politics or funding impeding that.  Instead its about $$ and what power/status?
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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #553 on: February 11, 2017, 08:36:22 AM »
Listening to him read his spiel makes me wonder who wrote it and if they have a job today.  The committee chair basically called him out twice and then told him to stop. Maybe just maybe someone is actually reading and comprehending what the people are actually saying. Unsworth's description of the comments also makes we wonder how many times in the past the comment forms were misrepresented.

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Re: OPERATION CODY- An undercover investigation into WA's commercial poaching
« Reply #554 on: February 11, 2017, 09:08:28 AM »
Listening to him read his spiel makes me wonder who wrote it and if they have a job today.  The committee chair basically called him out twice and then told him to stop. Maybe just maybe someone is actually reading and comprehending what the people are actually saying. Unsworth's description of the comments also makes we wonder how many times in the past the comment forms were misrepresented.
You don't really expect honesty and transparency from this current WDFW administration do you?

 


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