If you’ve been reading The ‘Ville Voice for any length of them, you’re familiar with the Metro Parks whistleblower – the guy who caught Parks director Mike Heitz repeatedly driving drunk in a city-owned vehicle. You’re familiar with the fact that Heitz was barely reprimanded and the whistleblower, Joey Sears, was terminated and retaliated against [...]
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Local Union Now Going After Parks Whistleblower
May 3rd, 2012 · 23 Comments
Tags: Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Metro Government · Parks
Metro Officials Lying About Whistleblower Calls
April 23rd, 2012 · 12 Comments
More on the Metro Parks whistleblower shenanigans? Yes, of course. Lynn Fleming claims Joey Sears wasn’t speaking to his supervisor when he called in to work. Unfortunately, the guy most certainly was a supervisor: How the Assistant Director of Human Resources doesn’t know someone is a supervisor, we’ll never know. And, unfortunately for Fleming, telephone [...]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Metro Government · Parks · Scandal
Metro Parks And That Ironic “Liquid Courage”
April 18th, 2012 · 7 Comments
You know what’s weird/creepy? Marty Storch mentioning liquid courage on the teevee last year while discussing the Derby Festival’s Hole-in-One contest: Note: here’s the original segment from which we pulled the clip. It’s only fitting to mention selling alcohol when your boss is a notorious drunk driver. You’ll note that this interview took place around [...]
Tags: Alcohol · Derby Festival · Metro Government · Oops · Parks · WLKY
Fischer Advisor Told Him Of Heitz Months Earlier
April 10th, 2012 · 4 Comments
We all know that Greg Fischer patted Metro Parks Director Mike Heitz on the back and allowed him to keep his job. All that after he was caught drinking and driving in a city-owned vehicle. We all also know that the original whistleblower has been fired and Fischer’s office – through Chris Poynter, primarily – [...]
Tags: Alcohol · Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Metro Government · Parks · Scandal
Everything’s Puppies & Rainbows With Cordish!
March 30th, 2012 · 6 Comments
We’re not going to shut up about you giving to the Red Cross for tornado relief efforts. This will take a long time. [Click Here To Give] Greg Fischer can’t even get basketball quotes right. It’s like he wants everyone across the Commonwealth to think he’s as disconnected as he really is. [KSR] There’s a [...]
Tags: Charity · Cordish · Gays · Greg Fischer · JCPS · Lexington · LMPD · Metro Government · Music · Parks · Race · Scandal · Sex · Sports · WAVE · Weather
Little Parks Things Add Up To Big Parks Things
March 28th, 2012 · 24 Comments
We’ve obviously been poking around Metro Parks lately. And what have we discovered today? Some fancy Marty Storch stuff from a local sports blog. Seems the assistant parks director is… well… you’ll see. In an interview about a new first (golf) hole at Seneca, Storch claimed 12 large oak trees were moved to line the [...]
Tags: Metro Government · Oops · Parks
This Is Not 1950, Quit With The Racist Horseshit
March 27th, 2012 · 3 Comments
We’re not going to shut up about you giving to the Red Cross for tornado relief efforts. This will take a long time. [Click Here To Give] Twelve states have joined a lawsuit defending a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that will limit mercury and other toxic air emissions. But Kentucky is not [...]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Charity · Greg Fischer · Horse Industry · Indiana · Lexington · LMPD · MSD · Parks · Race · Scandal · University of Louisville · Weather
Metro Parks Retaliation Slowly Unraveling For Greg
March 26th, 2012 · 27 Comments
Yes, we’re still on this Joey Sears / whistleblower gets canned for outing the drunk driving Metro Parks director scandal. Let’s take a stroll down Greg Fischer Supports Whistleblower Retaliation Memory Lane/Supports Drunk Driving Memory Lane: Opportunity For Greg Fischer To REALLY Lead [October 25] Where’s The Leadership From Greg Fischer Today? [October 26] Shocking [...]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Greg Fischer · Metro Government · Parks · Scandal
There Are Big Lumps Under Greg Fischer’s Rug
March 26th, 2012 · 6 Comments
We’re not going to shut up about you giving to the Red Cross for tornado relief efforts. This will take a long time. [Click Here To Give] Wasn’t that awesome on Friday when tornadoes ripped through Southeastern Louisville and the local teevee folks were caught by surprise? Yeah, just wonderful. [FOX41] Local media is finally [...]
Tags: Bad Behavior · Charity · Greg Fischer · Health Care · John Yarmuth · Lexington · Ohio River Bridges · Oops · Parks · Republican Party · Scandal · Sports · State Government · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville · Weather
Greg Fischer Gets Confronted By Whistleblower
March 23rd, 2012 · 17 Comments
This happened on Greg Fischer’s favorite thing, Facebook: And then Metro Parks whistleblower Joey Sears did this: Greg still refuses to deal with the scandal. Next week is going to be a lot of fun, FYI. UPDATE: The Fischer crew have been hard at work deleting comments all day – including addition questions from Sears. [...]
Tags: Greg Fischer · Metro Government · Oops · Parks




