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Tt post - sep 23, 2015

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Maybe Toledo City Councilwoman Lindsey Webb will provide a quote.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015, a gaggle of Hickey supporters appeared at a school board gathering. From the Sep 12 Blade story :

Scores of people turned out for a board of education work session early today to be heard on the matter, with many of them speaking in defense of Superintendent of Schools Patrick Hickey.
Also speaking today was Lindsay Webb, a Toledo city councilman who is the mother of a kindergartner in the Washington district. She said the district would decline quickly if it dismisses Mr. Hickey, because excellent leaders are hard to replace.

“I love politics. I know how to play politics,” Ms. Webb said. “Up to this point, I haven’t come close to Washington Local Schools races. That will change starting today.”

Was that some kind of a goon threat by Webb?

Why were so many Hickey fanatics angry at the school board, which appeared simply to be doing its job of investigating a serious matter?

Since Webb is a politician, it's understandable why she would be opposed to truth and transparency.

I'm guessing that the Hickey supporters will glum onto this part of Nolan's story, published in the Sep 23, 2015 issue of the Blade:

... the district or its attorneys say the investigation concluded that the staff member was not subjected to harassment ...

Now it's about the definition of harassment.

harassment: aggressive pressure or intimidation.

After reading the Sep 23 Blade story, it appears that Hickey harassed more than one person.

She claimed that the coworker had told Mr. Hickey to leave the woman alone in a conversation that “stemmed from a conversation that took place after [the coworker’s] family discovered a series of inappropriate sexual messages that he sent to her.”
The husband says that soon after his wife asked Mr. Hickey to stop contact, Mr. Hickey then “started sending explicit messages to another [redacted] colleague, how did that work out for you? Have you explained that to [redacted] yet?”

She details efforts she took to end communication [with Hickey]. She says she blocked his personal cell phone, his Twitter account, she blocked his work phone, and got a new phone number. She sent him an email telling him to only contact her for work-related reasons. She claims he tried to get her new number from a coworker, a claim Mr. Hickey denied in an email to her husband.

The husband wrote that he objected to Mr. Hickey carbon copying their emails to his wife, and said that “I am sure you would think I was trying to intimidate you if I copied your wife. Again, Please just leave my family alone and find a way to focus on your own.”

“Do not threaten my family,” the husband wrote. “I am not threatening you with any public embarrassment, I am simply trying to protect my family and my professional career. I have not looked to punish you; living with yourself is probably punishment enough.”

Again, from the reprimand directed at Hickey:

The Board has found that your behavior toward district staff members, including the extent and volume of your communications, were perceived as overly personal, as well as inappropriate and intentionally intimidating.

"Dudes, I'm golden."