What is Bill Kilquist's Real Agenda for the Logan Board?
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Today the Southern Illinoisan ran a story raising concerns about how Bill Kilquist was hired as College's director of emergency planning and risk management. It is about time that the Southern Illinoisan starts paying attention to the Logan Board's hiring behavior and not just a patsy for the powerful and status quo in this community.
But it is doubtful that the Southern would have run this story at all if Kilquist hadn't gone to the Southern's offices in Carbondale to make his case. Kilquist believes that he is being libeled because he has been questioned about how he got his job and how jobs are determined at Logan. Kilquist knows exactly how certain jobs are determined at Logan! He was part of the Board that has traded jobs for favors within the community.
And this is not the first time that Kilquist has gone to the Southern to push a story. Remember the story the Southern ran about Don Lowery (now SIU Board member and public enemy to Glenn Poshard) using his influence as a judge to get his wife Nita a job at John A. Logan College? Apparently that story was the product of Glenn Poshard urging Kilquist to question the credibility of Lowery. However, in the process of being a shill for Poshard, Kilquist revealed that jobs at Logan are often the product of nepotism, political patronage, and cronyism. In the case of Nita Lowry, she was hired through her husband using leverage with Logan Board members and the Human Resources officer, Larry Peterson.
What Kilquist didn't disclose and what the Southern didn't uncover in that story was that the reason Nita Lowry wanted a raise had to do with another Logan Board member's daughter getting a starting salary $5,000/year more than Nita Lowry was making at the time. Don Lowery decided to use his influence with Kilquist again, then a Logan board member, because Lowery had done so in the past. (Note that Peterson was a facilitator in each of these hires.)
Side note, the board member's daughter who was hired at $5,000/year more than Nita Lowery also happens to be the current Human Resource Officer's (Clay Brewer) wife and Don Brewer's daughter-in-law. Not the central point of this story, but it sort of paints a picture of what certain board members at Logan expect from Logan…."follow the money" becomes "shake the family tree" when looking at Logan hiring practices.
So, why does Kilquist so badly want to be on the Logan Board again?
And that board member's daughter also works for Hamilton--if you want more of this crap, vote for him. If you think that as a taxpayer you deserve better, vote for someone new.
ReplyDeleteSo, she's not a Board member's daughter, but is Don Brewer's daughter-in-law? Wait, the Human Resources director's WIFE is employed there? Don't they have a nepotism policy?
ReplyDeleteNo - she works with Hamilton...another Brewer crony. Word is that Brewer got Hamilton to run for the board to divide the Willimason County vote and bring his number 1 choice of Kilquist a clear win.
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify -- a former Board member's daughter is now the wife of Clay Brewer, Human Resources, thus Don Brewer's daughter-in-law. She used to be college employee and her salary at the time was the issue for Lowery wanting a raise for his wife who was employed at the college then. This is all history but more evidence of the patterns. Now this wife/daughter-in-law works with Hamilton, another Board candidate who also has a Brewer connection.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm missing something above, but what is the name of the former board member?
ReplyDeleteCecila Dunbar
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