Poor Judgment

The Des Moines Register reports that Iowa Central Community College President Robert Paxton will collect $400,000 from the school in return for his resignation.

The resignation was prompted by the Register's publishing of a July 4 photograph of Paxton aboard a boat with a group of young people, holding the spigot of a small beer keg suspended over a young woman’s open mouth.  Paxton said the beer keg was broken and wasn’t dispensing beer into the young woman’s mouth.  He said his 19-year-old son, who was arrested for second-offense drunken driving early the next morning, was in the boat but was not drinking.

And I'm certain he didn't inhale.

As Dean Dad points out, "if a $400,000 check and several years' worth of health insurance is a punishment, I'm sure I could dig up a skeleton of my own somewhere."

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