Boonville Superintendent to Keep His Job

[pstokely]

Source: KOMU

BOONVILLE - The Boonville R-1 School District Board of Education announced a unanimous vote Wednesday to keep Dr. Mark Ficken as its Superintendent of Schools. The vote came after a closed personnel meeting Tuesday night.

Ficken was under investigation for his role in the August 10 Missouri State Fair rodeo incident, where a rodeo clown dressed up as President Obama.

The video of the incident went viral and drew widespread criticism toward Ficken, who was the announcer for the event. The clown allegedly made comments that many people called offensive and racist.

Former Columbia Public Schools superintendent, Dr. Jim Ritter and former Missouri Assistant Attorney General Rick Williams led the Boonville board's investigation and determined Ficken, "Had no advance knowledge of Mr. Gessling's [the clown's] plan to have someone impersonate President Obama."

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[rdharma]

1. Do you know what "Ficken" means in German?

[Ken Burch]

2. Ja.

[rdharma]

3. Eff Herr Ficken..... and the rodeo clown he rode in with!

[Ken Burch]

4. For a moment, I read that as "and the rodeo clown he rode in ON!"

Which would be even better, considering his last name.

[scooter rider]

5. Well I guess he's lucky this isn't Russia and the rodeo clown wasn't wearing a Putin mask

St. Petersburg Police Seize Painting of Putin in Women's Underwear

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/painting-of-putin-seized-artist-flees-to-france/485194.html

Police seized a painting of Russia's president and prime minister in women's underwear from a gallery in St. Petersburg, saying the satirical display had broken unspecified laws. The officers also removed a picture of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, his torso covered in tattoos, and two others poking fun at lawmakers who have backed legislation banning so-called gay propaganda, gallery staff said.

The officers also removed a picture of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, his torso covered in tattoos, and two others poking fun at lawmakers who have backed legislation banning so-called gay propaganda, gallery staff said.



Apparently the artist has split for France. No sense of humor in Russia.

[another_liberal]

6. Cover-up.

I've heard the whole thing was thought up by some local millionaires who style themselves as "Cowboy Rebels." Their leader lives on a "ranch" encompassing some of the most valuable land in Columbia, Missouri. He most likely paid the clown an extra hundred dollars to say it was all his idea.