Na, na, na , na.....Na, na, na, na. Hey, hey, hey. Goodbye!
Maybe Boss Hogg will rehire him as a gun salesman at the Drug Store/Armory.

I disagree.

There are two issues here. One is political, and I doubt Heim will stay. Gray will put in his own Chief to adjust the "culture" to his liking.

The other issue is performance and value from the Police Department to the citizens of Lancaster. Appointing a new Chief from within the ranks of the LPD would be good for the Police union, and their members, and probably morale ... but it most likely would not be good for the citizens as a Chief hired from within has friends, skeletons, and favors owed.

Regardless of who the new mayor chooses, it will be a qualified Police administrator who has come up through the ranks, just not the ranks of the LPD.

Heim needs to go. He was Charlie's boy and proved it over and over again. A new chief should not come from within the ranks, waaaay to much baggage will come along with any candidate on the force, no matter what their service record is. Let's just hope Rick finds a person of character with a good record who isn't looking for a new job because they were fired.

Chuck Maneval is an extremely nice and likeable guy. Unfortunately that's also his only qualification. He's been completely impotent under two administrations, and I suspect that Charlie kept him on after Stork for that very reason. Charlie always wanted the spotlight, especially in the area of development, and having an agressive and competant development director would have taken that spotlight away. Sorry Chuck, but you should have been gone long ago.

Perido = lap dog. Enough said there.

Darcy's canning is a mystery to me. She's been the mayor's secretary forever, serving democrats and republicans without (mostly) taking any sides. I dealt with her working under both Stork and Smithgall and always thought she did an amazing job directing traffic through the mayor's office, a job that can be quite a challenge on even an average day. I really hope Rick's team knows what they're doing on this one, because Darcy's been city hall's "Radar O'Reilly" for 12 years and just training someone to know everything she does could take 4 years. I for one am sorry to see her go.

What I haven't seen anyone write about is the greatest removal from city hall of all - NO MORE JESSE YESCALIS!!! No longer will we have an underhanded slimebag "consultant" pulling strings in city hall to manipulate the workings of government to promote his warped "republican" agenda. Jesse its time for you to find another weak community to prey on, hopefully one far far away from here. Arizona, Hawaii and Pennsylvania don't want you, so you only have 47 states to go. So long, sleazeball!

I only hope that Rick has paid enough attention to Jesse's antics to remember that political "consultants" and spin gurus have no place in day-to-day government. They operate in perpetual "campaign mode" and see hidden threats in every shadow, always preparing for the next election and manipulating whoever/whatever they have to to keep the spin they way they want it. Rick, your spin guru did a great job this campaign, but PLEASE advise "he or she" to go back to their day job until the next campaign.

Should be an interesting January

To the idea of Heim becoming a good chief under Gray, ever hear of trying to make silk purses out of sows ears? Or to put it another way, you can't polish a turd.

Not at all surprised that people want Jesse gone. He annoyed everyone in high school. He had few friends- except for the 20 or so he bought. He has been a know it all for his entire life. Thankfully, he got his comeuppance.