8/1/2013 update: That was back in April, for the Jan, Feb and March invoices. Now UO is stonewalling again. Almost 2 months since I asked Dave Hubin and Randy Geller for the April, May, and June invoices for Rudnick, and the other firms advising the admin bargaining team. The DOJ…
Posts tagged as “Dave Frohnmayer: UO President”
7/5/2013: Excuse me if I’ve got anything wrong here, it’s been a long strange trip. Back in 2010 or so Dave Frohnmayer and HLGR filed an ethics complaint on behalf of the county’s general counsel Mark Pilliod against newly elected DA Patrick Flaherty. After a year or so of digging…
7/1/2013 retraction, per ORS 31.120 The original headline on this post, on 6/10/2013, was “Bar investigates Rudnick, Geller and Gary for alleged bill padding.” On 6/20/2013 I received a retraction demand from Ms Rudnick and Mr. Gary per ORS 31.120, which gives news organizations 2 weeks to retract allegedly false and defamatory statements, before they can be sued…
5/16/2013: Presumably Randy Geller is getting competent legal advice somewhere. Frohnmayer wrote the original version. And if it’s HLGR it would help explain Rudnick’s bargaining table outbursts about keeping shared governance out of the contract. HLGR wrote the Nike tax relief bill that Kitzhaber pushed through in special session, so…
5/10/2013: I expected venality from Sharon Rudnick and her HLGR team, but like everyone else I’ve talked to I’ve been surprised by the incompetence. Maybe I shouldn’t have been though, given who wrote the foreword to “Negotiating for Dummies”: Yup, right at the bottom: David Frohnmayer, President of the University of…
Update: By popular request I’m adding a link to an audit and other shenanigans of Dave Frohnmayer’s two last provosts, John Moseley and Jim Bean. “Provost’s gone wild”. The RG editorializes, here. Read the commenters there, they are better informed than the editors about the lack of substance and the…
3/29/2013: OUS’s Oregon Administrative Rule 580 exempts a few things from the normal transparent competitive bidding process for state procurement: (k) Goods or services related to intercollegiate athletic programs.(L) Cadavers or cadaveric organs.…(u) Contracts for professional or expert witnesses or consultants to provide services or testimony relating to existing or potential litigation…
12/14/12: And what’s it costing us? Long story. The short version, with my opinion? The UO administration’s current lead negotiator, Sharon Rudnick, (from Dave Frohnmayer’s firm, HLGR) was originally hired by Interim UO President Bob Berdahl to fight faculty unionization.(That’s my opinion – under state law UO has to officially…
Long story. The complaint to the bar’s ethics committee against Frohnmayer, Gary, and Pilliod was initiated by the wife of the Deschutes county DA, after they made an ethics complaint about him over some weird public records case involving the county. Frohnmayer collected quite a few billable hours from the…
2/15/2013 Note: This post has a record number of comments, which have raised many issues in addition to those in the post. I want to apologize for the personal pain this post has caused for the instructors in the CNC program. As I’ve written in the comments, I think it…
Update: Prof. Barbara Altmann accuses faculty union of supporting child pornography. Update #4 on the Admin blog, for today 2/7/2013: In perhaps the most extreme section, the Union proposed that “[t]he content of faculty profiles in social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) shall not be considered during any evaluation of a…
9/30/2012. It’s a twisted story. The DOJ hired an expert who says Harrang Long et al. padded their bill with top-heavy lawyers: If Bill Gary gets his way with the court, his 32 page counter-plea will yield a rather remarkable $27,000 per page (double-spaced). Paid for by the 53% of us who…
First he and Bill Gary lost the one against DA Patrick Flaherty, for which his firm was paid $55,000 by Deschutes county taxpayers. Still no word on the counter complaint against them by Flaherty’s wife. Now Nigel Jaquiss reports the bar has also dismissed the Frohnmayer Gary complaint against John…
Dave gives a nice talk. It’s not yet clear if Randy Geller’s efforts to help Frohnmayer’s firm get paid an extra $432,000 from his suit against the Oregon DOJ will pay off. I should have more documents in a few days. Still nothing new on the counter-ethics complaint filed with the Oregon…
for pursuing an unsuccessful ethics complaint against DA Patrick Flaherty: Update: For a copy of the $35,000 summer contract Berdahl wrote Frohnmayer, see page 15 here. For info on Randy Geller’s efforts to get his firm $864,000 plus new UO contracts, see here. County Counsel Mark Pilliod supplied these contracts and…