Iowa trooper disciplined in Obama e-mail case

Source: wcf courier

DES MOINES, Iowa - An Iowa state trooper from Fort Dodge is being punished for forwarding an e-mail that included jail mug shots of people wearing Barack Obama T-shirts.

Sgt. Rodney Hicok received a 30-day suspension on his record, although he won't actually have to leave his job. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Courtney Greene says labor law means suspending Hicok without pay would jeopardize overtime rules for salaried employees like Hicok.

Hicok also must attend training on department policies.

Officials took action after finding Hicok forwarded the e-mail from a state-issued laptop computer while off duty to people inside and outside the agency. It made disparaging remarks about 15 people in the photos and referred to Obama as having "quite a fan base."

Read more: http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2009/01/28/ap-state-ia/d9608l101.txt

for winking at Obama, yet this guy only gets suspended for 30 days for borderline racist remarks?

:shrug:

You just know there are lots of guys with NRA hats arrested on gun charges, fundamentalists arrested on soliciting prostitutes, etc.

(i.e. the extra money slush fund) prevent the department from appropriately punishing misbehaving officers, then those rules need to be changed...