Mayor Broome blames failed CAO hire on "being honest"...

The spin on this is pretty awesome I guess. Where y'at Will Cover? She got bamboozled NOT because they failed to do even the most basic due diligence but because she is honest and has integrity.

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Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said she wanted to address "the elephant in the room" Monday and opened up about her hiring of short-lived former Chief Administrative Officer Troy Bell while she addressed a group women about leadership and work-life balance.

Truthfulness was one of the attributes Broome said she wants, saying one of her decisions was "what we call a bad hire." She was referencing Troy Bell, who she hired as her top deputy in April. He resigned five days later after The Advocate revealed he lied on his resume about a master's degree in public administration he not hold, while he was fired from multiple previous government jobs in other states. "If you're an honest person, you believe everybody else is going to be an honest person," Broome said. "I'm learning more and more that you have to vet people very intensely these days because everybody is not like you. You deal in integrity and maybe not everybody else deals in integrity."

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BTW, it is true that EVERYTHING is about race with her. This is the first and only time I have ever heard that the YWCA/YMCA is about eliminating racism.

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Broome spoke to a room full of women at a YWCA luncheon related to the nonprofit's mission to eliminate racism and empower women. She sat in an armchair next to moderator Gerri Hobdy in a Woman's Hospital conference room, and Hobdy asked the mayor-president what qualities she looks for in team members.

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And the HORROR of her schedule:

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Learning how to care for herself while running the city-parish has also been one of Broome's biggest challenges, she said. She has not taken a vacation since she took office in January, she said.

But she said she is learning that she cannot properly take care of her community if she is not taking care of herself, so she is trying to place more emphasis on self-care and turned down a speaking engagement on Mother's Day to give herself a break.

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