Unethical Scumbag George Gollin Fined $5000 for Ethics Violations

[Yancy Derringer]

Here are some interesting statements from the Ethics Commission's Final Report, under the section "Stipulated Undisputed Material Facts":

"Gollin has annually completed UIUC's Ethics Training for University Employees [which includes] sections on the Ethics Act's prohibition on the misappropriation of state resources to conduct prohibited political activities."

Not just once, not twice, but every stinking year! Gollin started at UIUC in 1989, which means he may have sat through that training as many as 25 times! Did George Gollin not have 15 pals handy to explain it to him? Or did he just decide that it only applied to all the other guys and not to intellectual giants like him?

"Gollin spoke three times with UIUC Ethics Officer Donna McNeely regarding his run for political office. During the first call, Gollin informed McNeely that he intended to keep his UIUC and campaign activities separate, that he had a separate email account for campaign activities, and that he understood the Ethics Act's rules concerning prohibited political activities."

How is it that the mental colossus George Gollin talked to the ethics officer three times and still couldn't get it right? It's pretty simple: don't use your university email for campaign stuff! What part of that requires even one conversation with the university ethics officer, let alone three, especially after some 25 years of ethics training on the very same point?

Gollin and his bizarre activities continue to raise the question: If he is really the genius he would have us believe, how could he screw up something so simple? Of course the answers are that (a) he didn't screw it up, he intentionally violated the rules, and (b) consistent with the narcissistic sociopath he is, he arrogantly thought he was entitled to it, and that his "inferiors" couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it. Wrong again, scumbag.

"Gollin knowingly and intentionally used his state-provided e-mail account to engage in prohibited political activity by sending dozens of e-mails from or to his UIUC e-mail address for the benefit of his campaign for elected public office."

It's easy to see how somebody could have just hastily pushed the "send" button once before switching the little "From" box to his campaign email address. But Gollin did it "dozens" of times. He could have taken the two seconds to comply with the law each time, but it was just too much of a burden for Dr. Brainiac. This was no accident or anything close to it. He basically said "fuck you" to the university ethics officer every single time he pushed "send," time after time after time. Not just arrogance but utter contempt for the law, the university and the people who pay his salary.

"Gollin used the Gollin Campaign E-mails for the benefit of his campaign. By way of example and not limitation, Gollin used the Gollin Campaign E-mails to: (1) request and receive advice regarding his campaign; (2) solicit contributions for his campaign; and (3) coordinate campaign activity with campaign supporters and volunteers."

Advice, contributions, coordination--is there anything else you could use an email address for relative to a political campaign? Gollin essentially ran every significant aspect of his entire campaign (albeit incompetently) using his prohibited university email.

I can imagine the university ethics officer telling him, "Whatever you do, Gollin, you bald stupid prick, don't use your university email for anything to do with your political campaign. Especially, don't use it for advice, contributions, coordination, or any other god damn thing. Got it, numbnuts?" Gollin nods his hairless cranium solemnly in affirmation, then stumbles back to his office and immediately starts firing off campaign emails with his university email account, seeking advice, contributions and coordination. He's thinking, "Ha ha! I sure fooled that silly bitch! I just agreed with everything she said, but now I'll do whatever I feel like and what's she gonna do about it?" I guess now we know, eh Einstein?

"Gollin admits that he knew at the time he was sending the Gollin Campaign E-mails that the e-mails were sent or received in furtherance of his campaign for election to State office. Gollin likewise knew at the time he was sending the Gollin Campaign E-mails that the Ethics Act prohibited State employees such as himself from misappropriating state resources to engage in political activity."

He knew it was wrong and he said, "Fuck it, I'm gonna do it anyway!" Dozens of times. Despite three discussions with the university ethics officer and some 25 years of ethics training. Some three-year olds have trouble controlling their impulsive behavior, but they generally outgrow it by the time they reach 60. Not George Gollin.

Is George Gollin sniffing glue or is somebody putting lysergic acid in his pancakes? Whatever his motivation, the fact is that he's now publically and officially branded for the scumbag he always has been. We've been telling people this very thing for years and you still occasionally find one or two who weren't fully convinced. Even the gay truck driver called Gollin "a weirdo nobody likes," and it was equally apparent from the comments he made on the Stalker Gang board that Klempner thought Gollin was a dick as well. Let's hope that mental case George Gollin has finally convinced the rest of the world what a sick joke he really is.