What is Doug facing?

[barbeetantrums]

Or the AZ judicial system could elect to make an example of him.....maybe he will be eating the green bologna Sherriff Joe serves...

He'll get the Glen Campbell treatment. Separation from other inmates in the county jail - not Tent City - and he'll be treated as a celebrity and befriended by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County's favorite little media whore.

 

[fanlube]

I thought the biggest media whore was this guy til he got busted for corruption!

 

[LD3]

View attachment 5617I thought the biggest media whore was this guy til he got busted for corruption!

Wasn't he the wacko w/ the black widow painted on his car?

 

[singh4us]

Didn't Frank Lorenzo get nabbed with a DUI?

Wondering minds and all....

From: Doug Parker's a Bit Too Human

By Ted Reed
TheStreet.com Staff Reporter
2/12/2007 1:29 PM EST

Fifteen years ago, another prominent airline industry executive was convicted of drunk driving. The executive, Frank Lorenzo, resembles Parker in that he started with a small airline and sought to create the world's biggest through mergers. In fact, Texas Air Group was, briefly, the world's biggest airline company.

In most other ways, Lorenzo, who chose to fight his employees rather than his competitors, was Parker's opposite.
Lorenzo, then 52, was stopped by police after turning the wrong way on a one-way street in the early morning hours of July 28, 1992, in the Montrose area of Houston. Arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, he subsequently pleaded no contest.

The incident was widely reported at the time, although press coverage ceased once Lorenzo was convicted. Yet the story became part of airline industry lore, just as the Parker case will.

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/newsanal...10338302_3.html

 

[ClueByFour]

In most other ways, Lorenzo, who chose to fight his employees rather than his competitors, was Parker's opposite.

How much did Tempe pay Ted Reed for this fluff piece?

Parker is conducting his labor relations in a manner which resembles Lorenzo more and more every day.

 

[delldude]

This Pa mayor did the right thing....will Doug?

Somerset County mayor resigns after DUI arrest
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The Associated Press

BOSWELL, Pa. -- The borough mayor resigned less than a week after police charged him with drunken driving.

State police filed the charge Wednesday against Matthew Ash, 25, who resigned unexpectedly at Monday night's borough council meeting. Mr. Ash said he was resigning to put an end to the unwanted media attention it has generated.

Mr. Ash's alcohol level was more than twice what the law allows when they pulled him over about 2:45 a.m. Jan. 20, police said.

As mayor, Mr. Ash supervised the borough's two part-time police officers.

 

[longing4piedmont]

In the mainstream Media this story is as dead as Jessica Simpsons brain.

Just the quite before the storm. My guess the photo on the front page of Mr. Parker in a orange jump suit will stir it up again as well any move by the BOD on his job. Mr. Parker will remain out of the press for a while....or at least attempt too.

 

[StuckHere]

Why not use PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION!

Doesn't exist in Arizona.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Doesn't exist in Arizona.

Either walk or buy a bicycle. He needs to lose some weight beides in the wallet.

 

[barbeetantrums]

Doesn't exist in Arizona.

Public transportation is alive and well with the Valley Metro. In fact it goes right past Dog Porker's house. He can sit right next to the schizophrenic who tells him his life story or the woman who sits in her own urine.

 

[flybynite]

My guess is Doug's not facing much more than a slap on the wrist. He may have to do some community service. Like 20 hrs. Big whoop. He's already done a little time in jail. Maybe a few hours which will go to time served.

What I'd like to know is...was he drinking so much that he was having " Visions of Grandeur" thinking he could just up and buy Delta?

Just a thought. <_<

 

[noname]

View attachment 5617I thought the biggest media whore was this guy til he got busted for corruption!

FWIW .. Gerald Hege

 

[phasersonstun2]

He(Parker)can sit right next to the schizophrenic who tells him his life story or the woman who sits in her own urine.

Those type of riders just don't exist in PHX. People are too dehydrated to sit in what little urine they produce. Also, schizos are usually golfing.

 

[BoeingBoy]

Also, schizos are usually golfing.

Didn't some of the media reports say that Parker "went golfing" the day after his arrest.....

Jim

 

[singh4us]

Didn't some of the media reports say that Parker "went golfing" the day after his arrest.....

Jim

Jim,

Dawn Gilbertson had made this statement on her newspaper's blog:


Business as usual

02/09/2007 08:53 AM

Parker showed no signs of his brewing legal troubles last Friday at the airline's hospitality tent at the FBR Open, where he stopped by briefly after a round of golf at the Boulders Resort.

And he stuck with his plans to go to the Super Bowl in Miami.

In an interview with the Republic Tuesday at the airline's Tempe headquarters, he didn't appear stressed and (obviously) didn't bring up the arrest when asked how he decompressed after the Delta deal died.

Parker unplugged

02/06/2007 01:45 PM

Had a chance to sit down with Doug Parker this morning for a postmortem on the Delta deal and a look ahead.

Despite speculation the airline will be scurrying for another airline, he sounds like he means it when he says US Airways isn't in the market and won't be unless it appears other mergers are in the works.

After a weekend of golf, a son's birthday party sleepover and the Super Bowl, it was back to business for him today. He was meeting with US Airways pilots in Phoenix today and is scheduled to meet with more employees in Charlotte tomorrow.

Check back later for a link to the full interview.

http://www.azcentral.com/blogs/index.php?b...ogtype=Bizblogs