{"id":421,"date":"2008-12-03T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T22:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=421"},"modified":"2018-05-09T08:14:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:14:11","slug":"beecher-denies-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2008\/12\/03\/beecher-denies-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beecher Denies Accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finalist for Hingham town administrator job denies accusations<\/a> <\/p>\n

Finalist for Hingham town administrator job denies accusations
\nDenies reports about his performance in two previous jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n

For city managers, politics can make for short stays (12\/03\/08)<\/p>\n

HINGHAM \u2014 Town administrator finalist Paul Beecher denied allegations concerning his last two positions when he and the other two finalists met with selectmen on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see that life for me would be exciting if you believe everything you read in the newspaper,\u201d Beecher said.<\/p>\n

When Beecher left his last two positions \u2013 city manager in Kingman, Ariz. and Dover, N.H. \u2013 he left controversial situations behind. After he left the Dover job in 2004, he was blasted for, at the last minute, giving the police chief a 10-year contract entitling him to annual 7 percent raises and, eventually, 34 weeks of paid vacation.<\/p>\n

Kingman Mayor Monica Gates accused him of working short days and ruling with \u201can iron fist.\u201d He was fired after the council learned that he had signed a $28,000 severance agreement with the city\u2019s economic director without consulting them.<\/p>\n

Beecher did not deny any specifics other than Gates\u2019 characterization of his work, which he said was completely inaccurate.<\/p>\n

Hingham Selectman Bruce Rabuffo brought up an article published in The Patriot Ledger on Tuesday. It detailed the circumstances Beecher left behind. Beecher was not available for comment before publication of that article, and Rabuffo offered the candidate an opportunity to speak out.<\/p>\n

Rabuffo said each candidate \u201chad issues\u201d they had \u201cfessed up to\u201d in interviews, and Beecher was \u201cvery forthright\u201d in his answering.<\/p>\n

Beecher said many problems in Kingman erupted after he was gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything I did was in my authority,\u201d he said. \u201cI can say that I\u2019ve never done anything illegal, immoral or unethical in any place I\u2019ve worked or in my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a factual standpoint, it\u2019s almost all inaccurate,\u201d he said of the articles written about him in each city.<\/p>\n

The other two finalists are Jill Myers, town manager in Uxbridge, and Kevin Paicos, town manager in Ashburnham. All were questioned by the board for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

The selectmen will discuss the finalists on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finalist for Hingham town administrator job denies accusations Finalist for Hingham town administrator job denies accusations Denies reports about his performance in two previous jobs For city managers, politics can make for short stays (12\/03\/08) HINGHAM \u2014 Town administrator finalist Paul Beecher denied allegations concerning his last two positions when he and the other two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-where-are-they-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7888,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/7888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}