Karen Spanger (Facebook photo)
Karen Spanger (Facebook photo)
Things have been anything but dull since Karen Spranger has taken office.
Christina Hall of the Detroit Free Press reports:
Fewer than three months into office, Macomb County Clerk/Register of Deeds Karen Spranger has lost her computer privileges, fired her two chief deputies and wanted the county to fund an independent counsel for her so she can "displace, reassign or demote" unionized employees.
Spranger, a Republican who never held public office before being elected in November, has drawn the ire of fellow county officials and her own employees after taking over a county department that had been widely regarded as well-run and innovative. "It's been a weird environment, very stressful," Paul Kardasz, who was her chief deputy clerk until he was fired Saturday, told the Free Press...
On Monday, Spranger asked county commissioners during a committee meeting to approve spending $15,000 for an independent counsel for her to allow her to "displace, reassign or demote" any of her employees — a move that is angering union officials who also have filed grievances against her. The request was rejected on a 12-1 vote.