Welcome to day 5 of the Second Annual Golden Poo Awards in honor of our third anniversary. Ten lucky winners will receive a fancy pile of golden poo. And you, our terrific readers, are going to help give the awards.
See how great the poo is? Everybody wants it, just because, amen.
Which elected/public officials, candidates, reporters, public figures and so forth are absolutely full of it? Your input is needed!
Each day for the next however (it’s tough to count) many days, we’ll announce a new award category and you’ll submit an unlimited number of nominees.
Previous Categories:
- Day 1: Person Responsible For Legislation (or Legislation-Related Mess) Requiring the Most Lubricant
- Day 2: Reporter Most Likely To Make You Kick Your Television, Burn Your Newspaper, Smash Your Radio Or Toss Your Computer
- Day 3: Most Pee-Worthy Abuse Of Twitter By A Political Figure Acting Like A 12-Year-Old Girl
- Day 4: Politician Most Likely To Be Investigated Or Indicted In The Next 12 Months
Be sure to nominate someone for those categories.
After all nominations are received for all announced categories, we’ll announce the winners and send the golden piles of magic along to eagerly awaiting recipients. Please remember to make your nomination as scandalous and inappropriate as possible.
Today’s category is:
Submit your nomination – along with your reasoning (this is required) – in the comments. Keep it hilarious.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Strangeite // Jul 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Doug Martin.
The incident with Joe Sonka proved that not only is he incompetent as a council member, but that he also fails at being a decent human.
I stand and applaud his efforts at taking self-destructive behavior to the next level.
2 OwensboroR // Jul 30, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Helen Mountjoy. When she was appointed it was touted as the Holy Grail of Education was finally going to straighten things out. Now, a few years later, school days have been cut. The Senate has decided her KATS testing was worthless. Our educational attainment hasn’t advanced any, but yet it’s alleged that she was more interested in protecting her friends at a community college which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent in defending a lawsuit.
In the end, Education has become worse off during her term than better. And for Kentucky that’s saying a lot!
3 Steve Magruder // Jul 30, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Gilles Meloche, since he left his position at Metro Animal Services after the First Annual Golden Poo Awards. Here’s why.
4 Belknap Banquo // Jul 30, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Make it an inter-departmental exacta…Helen Mountjoy and Joe Myer, two of the most un-pleasant assholes in Frankfort history, and that’s saying a bunch.
5 James // Jul 31, 2010 at 8:23 am
Banquo is right on-Mountjoy is just incompetent with a mean spirit–Myer is evil through and through–they should have to share the award-with honorable mention to Beshear for bestowing those two on the citizens of the Commonwealth-no telling how many federal dollars Ky will have to refund to the feds when the Inspector General from Labor investigates-
6 freedom100 // Jul 31, 2010 at 12:56 pm
I agree with Steve Magruder. Gilles Meloche and his protege, Wayne Zilinsky, have continued through their practices and procedures to reek havoc on this community complete with warrantless searches, disease, overcrowding and all of the disgusting recounts in the cover story of this week’s LEO. I nominate Gilles Meloche and Wayne Zilinsky for a duel award.
7 Rico // Jul 31, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Brent Ackerson for his dumpster permit plan. Ackerson and Noble screwed up a problem dumpster case on Clarendon Ave so rather than admitting it he now wants 15,000 people a year to get dumpster permits.
8 Curt Morrison // Jul 31, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Jim Host, Louisville Arena Authority
I’m going to put aside his recent efforts to subjugate open records request to remind gentle readers of the near-calamity we narrowly escaped
Back in 2008, Host wanted to place the bond-issue for the arena with AIG with an adjustable interest rate tied to, get this: AIG’s credit-standing. When questioned by CJ on how much that would increase the project’s cost if the rate adjusted, he dismissed the question with “there’s simply no way to figure that.”
(Um, just because we’re from Kentucky, doesn’t mean we can’t do math.)
Finally, closing the sidewalk around the perimeter of the project was ridiculously unnecessary and circa-1975 practice. It’s disrespectful to people that live, work, and play in the heart of Louisville.
MR. HOST, OPEN THE SIDEWALK!
9 Steve Magruder // Aug 1, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Curt, I smell a new Louisville Courant post coming. I’d even link to that from LouHI and other places.
10 Blowin' in the wind // Aug 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Sheldon Berman for the busing plan that ignored everyone and everything except his perceptions of what was needed. Although how any one can beat Meloche I don’t know!
11 The Highlander // Aug 2, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I agree with Curt Morrison — Jim Host’s the donkey upon whom to pin the tail for this award. I addition to his adoring AIG (which has been conveniently forgotten by all arena enthusiasts) he has slickly slid a $349m bond issue past everyone’s nose by claiming the arena only cost $240m. THE DEBT to be retired is $349m. Interest = 6.5% ANNUALLY. The bond is 30 years. Do the math. 30 divided into 349m = 11.6m in principal ANNUALLY. 349m divided by 065% = 22.6m. TOTAL P&I = $34.2M. With operating costs at 500k per 1000 seats — add another $11m. So: before a dimes made, the arena has to EARN OVER $45M. Never do it in a million years. Most FHall ever grossed (standing along from rest of KFEC was $17m. THANKS JIM–the Community owes you a big debt.
12 wondering // Aug 2, 2010 at 6:45 pm
I’m ready to nominate. Mary Lassiter, the state budget director. She has poor-mouthed and sounded alarm after alarm about how broke the state is, but guess what? The state ended the fiscal year with a surplus. But that hasn’t been widely reported. I saw it on WKYT’s Web site or else I would have missed it. If the state had a surplus, so much for her budgetary expertise given all the dire predictions.
13 C. Herron // Aug 3, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Ben Richmond – he’s on the bridge authority and appointed by abramson as the token black man. he has done good things in the community, but i know there could have been a better appointee who could speak to minority business involvement who had more expertise in the project.
14 RJ // Aug 3, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I would say Meloche…but perhaps he’s worthy of his own category? Like maybe “biggest scum bag piece of french canadian dog poo to step foot in louisville”?
15 Bubbles LaRue // Aug 4, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Gilles Meloche, and there’s not enough space to cover it all, so let’s just hit the highlights:
1. Lying on his job application to Metro
2. Lying on his application for a KY veterinary license
3. Lying to a judge, claiming he was a US Citizen and never guilty of any crime of moral turpitude
4. Two counts of sexual harassment against co-workers
5. Running a brothel for Dismas workers at the pound, thereby giving an entirely new meaning to the term “doggie style”
6. Allowing more than a thousand animals to go “missing” from the shelter and not finding anything disturbing about that
7. Allowing tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to go “missing” from the shelter and not finding anything disturbing about that, either
8. Being a asshole of meteoric crater-like proportions
9. Currently sponging off unemployment when he resigned his job
10. Making the streets unsanitary by currently living out of his RV, making him the ‘Ville’s most notorious homeless person.
And those are just for starters…
16 Crutnacker // Aug 4, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Jim Host and Frenchie the Dog Pounder…. how did I miss those?
I think when I get stuck in the Fustercluck that will be Arena traffic downtown, I’ll be calling for Host to be tied to an abandoned Six Flags coaster.
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