Posts Tagged “Tina Taviano”

After being placed on administrative leave as Fort Wayne’s 911 Communications Director for alleged sexual harassment, 14 months later, Tina’s landed a new job. Read the rest of this entry »

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This just in from the mayor’s kingdom on the 9th floor.

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Vince Robinson’s brother Dean, provides his spin on the latest Fort Wayne city government soap opera episode.

Dean’s was nice enough to send us the file of his podcast, entitled, “The Black Robinsons: A Summit City Soap Opera.” Dean’s site is here.

City council is more interesting to me than any movie, any TV program, many social events. There is occasional drama, humor and pathos, not to mention combat. I am there defending my tax dollar and the character of my city. You should be, too.

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I can’t believe this. No, then again I guess I can.

The way WANE delivers this p.o.s. report, you would think they broke the story. They state, “it’s a story we first brought you as breaking news last night at 6:00.” Breaking? Actually is was 6:42 p.m. when they lifted the story off of this site and placed it on their web site. We broke the story originally at 3:49 pm.

It doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t use the oh so plagiaristic Emily Marini to do the story. Still feeling the “ouch” from that I suppose.

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Update: As predicated, WANE has killed all the comments on their article.

It looks like someone from WANE decided it wasn’t right for Emily Marini to essentially “lift” a story from this site for their use, (see here).

They decided to delete it and post a new story.

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Update: Finally, one MSM outlet has picked up on the story we posted at 3:49 p.m. Not long after WANE accessed our web site and read about it, they reported this at 6:42 pm.

911 Comm. Dir. on administrative leave
Tina Taviano

Updated: Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 6:42 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 12 Oct 2009, 6:42 PM EDT

Emily Marini
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)– – Fort Wayne’s 911 Communications Director has been placed on administrative leave.

Tina Taviano has held this position since January of last year. The position oversees the 911 call center, the radio shop and records division.

Taviano ran for sheriff against Ken Fries in 2006 on the democratic ticket and lost. The city is being very tight lipped as to why she’s been placed on leave, as well as for how long.

I guess we didn’t speak to anyone with “tight lips.” We were told she was fired, and we’re expecting her resignation tomorrow or Wednesday. Note the bold red portion of their story against the same below in our story. Hey WANE, you’re welcome!

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Tina Taviano, who ran an expensive, yet failed bid for sheriff in 2006 was suspended Friday from her position as Fort Wayne’s director of communication, which oversees the police 911 call center, radio shop and records division. She was appointed to the position in January, 2008.

While unofficial, we’re told by a source with the city she was terminated for sexual harassment as a result of a complaint filed with the City of Fort Wayne’s Metropolitan Human Relations Commission. Taviano is an admitted lesbian. Update: She was in fact terminated, but was given two days to turn in her resignation.

During Taviano’s campaign, she touted the fact she served over 7 years on the Mayor’s Commission against Domestic Violence, Sexual Harassment and Rape.

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