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It's Official: Bodnar Stepping Down.

argh! said:
it seems to me that they must already have somebody in mind for the job, and the favored person knows it, but they still have to follow the usual protocol and pretend to consider other candidates.
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I know nothing of university president searches but in 40 years of corporate America, every senior manager hire I ever was privy to was chosen before any supposed search happened. The worst were the recycled managers who had been unremarkable in their previous job but who had the credentials on paper.
 
Probably covered previously in this thread, but the recruiting firm BOR chooses likely does constant scouting, has an active list of potential applicants that were contacted the day Bodnar resigned. No different from coaches: any good AD keeps a list of who they're going to call as soon as the current coach moves on.
They'll get other applicants that aren't in the normal University President category. Corporate/government leaders who want to move to Montana and make an impact, like Bodnar, and what a find he was.
BOR/UM must already have the hiring committee with some Regents, academics, staff, a VP or two, local business, state leaders, etc.. As above, some academics might go ballistic if/when someone 'beneath them' is even considered, other academics will be happy and hope for the scyth to be swung on people and programs that need cutting. A new, confident president can do wonders by slaughtering sacred cows, making a statement and taking charge early on. Waded did that to great effect.
BOR/UM will come up with preferred and required qualifications, the hiring committee will rack and stack the submitted applications, then choose who to meet in person, rate again and down select. They might choose one, two or three to come to campus for an intensive, day long interview.
Same as when they hire Deans, Provosts, some department heads, VPs, etc. in the MUS.

If they do have someone in mind, they'll still have to go through the motions, but can do it quicker.

I think Waded resigned late fall/early winter and stayed until the end of the academic year so there was a decent amount of time. If Bodnar stays through end of June, um has plenty of time as well.
 
AZDoc said:
Unfortunately, when I was 18, I was at a function with him there...and had to assist him with said function. To call him an arrogant prick is doing a disservice. It was so bad, that others were consoling me. One of those others...Cliff Hysell.
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You laugh brother, but that’s a damn true story! Hahaha
 
mthoopsfan said:
Why are you scratching your head on the story?
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Which story? It seems there are several. I just recently heard about it on here. I admittedly did rather brief research on it. As far as I could tell, first, he shot himself in Glacier and went to the hospital for it. Then he said the gunshot was actually from active duty. Then a ranger said no, he actually shot himself in Glacier. Then he said he lied to that ranger and it was actually from active duty. Is everyone talking about the same gunshot wound? It just seems weird. Then again, the articles I read weren’t exactly examples of technical writing, so maybe I’m mixing things up.
 
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CDAGRIZ said:
Which story? It seems there are several. I just recently heard about it on here. I admittedly did rather brief research on it. As far as I could tell, first, he shot himself in Glacier and went to the hospital for it. Then he said the gunshot was from actually from active duty. Then a ranger said no, he actually shot himself in Glacier. Then he said he lied to that ranger and it was actually from active duty. Is everyone talking about the same gunshot wound? It just seems weird. Then again, the articles I read weren’t exactly examples of technical writing, so maybe I’m mixing things up.
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I thought the main question was where a lodged bullet had come from. Yes, the articles were weak and some showed apparent bias.

dailymontanan.com

Sheehy said gunshot records don't exist, as conservative talk show host calls incident 'confusing' • Daily Montanan

Tim Sheehy was interviewed by conservative radio host Megyn Kelly about a gunshot and Glacier National Park, and left the host feeling confused.
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mthoopsfan said:
I thought the main question was where a lodged bullet had come from. Yes, the articles were weak and some showed apparent bias.

dailymontanan.com

Sheehy said gunshot records don't exist, as conservative talk show host calls incident 'confusing' • Daily Montanan

Tim Sheehy was interviewed by conservative radio host Megyn Kelly about a gunshot and Glacier National Park, and left the host feeling confused.
dailymontanan.com dailymontanan.com
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The main question is why does Sheehy lie and constantly change his story?
 
mthoopsfan said:
I thought the main question was where a lodged bullet had come from. Yes, the articles were weak and some showed apparent bias.

dailymontanan.com

Sheehy said gunshot records don't exist, as conservative talk show host calls incident 'confusing' • Daily Montanan

Tim Sheehy was interviewed by conservative radio host Megyn Kelly about a gunshot and Glacier National Park, and left the host feeling confused.
dailymontanan.com dailymontanan.com
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Yeah, I think that’s the main question. The answer seems to have changed a few times, so people seem to wonder which answer is the truth. It doesn’t really matter because “What a stupid thing to lie about!” can be both an accusation and a defense with this one.

Edit: I watched. What makes this situation interesting is the fact that it isn’t going to leave him, and he’s currently anything but straight-talking when asked about it. Good enough to carry a Montana general, but yikes 😬. So if the party wants to raise his profile in the senate, they are going to have to coach him to be a LOT more polished than this in answering questions about the multiple gunshot stories. It should be item number one for them, because he floundered in that one.
 
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CDAGRIZ said:
Yeah, I think that’s the main question. The answer seems to have changed a few times, so people seem to wonder which answer is the truth. It doesn’t really matter because “What a stupid thing to lie about!” can be both an accusation and a defense with this one.

Edit: I watched. What makes this situation interesting is the fact that it isn’t going to leave him, and he’s currently anything but straight-talking when asked about it. Good enough to carry a Montana general, but yikes 😬. So if the party wants to raise his profile in the senate, they are going to have to coach him to be a LOT more polished than this in answering questions about the multiple gunshot stories. It should be item number one for them, because he floundered in that one.
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so he shot himself in the military while on the way to being a navy seal, and didn't want to admit it. friendly fire. then, years later, his bathing habits had been such that the old wound site became infected/inflamed while he was in glacier with a loaded gun. that's how he went to the glacier hospital with a gun shot wound from afghanistan. sort of.
 
CDAGRIZ said:
Yeah, I think that’s the main question. The answer seems to have changed a few times, so people seem to wonder which answer is the truth. It doesn’t really matter because “What a stupid thing to lie about!” can be both an accusation and a defense with this one.

Edit: I watched. What makes this situation interesting is the fact that it isn’t going to leave him, and he’s currently anything but straight-talking when asked about it. Good enough to carry a Montana general, but yikes 😬. So if the party wants to raise his profile in the senate, they are going to have to coach him to be a LOT more polished than this in answering questions about the multiple gunshot stories. It should be item number one for them, because he floundered in that one.
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My take is that he took a bullet in friendly fire in Afghanistan, or wherever he was, and it lodged in his arm. He didn't report it. My army Ranger son told me this non-reporting happens and is not that unusual with Special Ops soldiers. Years later in the Park, he fell while hiking and hurt his harm, realizing that he dislodged the bullet. He went to a hospital. They worked on it, fixed the injury and bandaged him. The healthcare people were aware or made of aware of the now dislodged bullet. I suppose Sheehy may have told them the old bullet was dislodged. They told him the bullet had to be reported anyway, even though he had explained where it came from. I wonder if the hospital reported it to authorities, or if someone at hospital knew who Sheehy was and reported it to authorities.

After he was bandaged and checking out, a park police guy showed up and started asking questions. Even tho Sheehy had mentioned the prior injury in a book, he made a mistake, telling the cop that he had dropped his gun and it went off, hitting him in his arm. And Sheehy signed a statement to that effect, I believe a police statement.

Eventually, the Park cop was asked how he had come to the hospital to talk to Sheehy. I read this somewhere: the cop then lied and said a call had come to Park police saying a shot had been fired in the Park. Okay, if true, how did he find Sheehy at the hospital? I also read that on that day, there are no Park records of anyone reporting a gunshot or anything similar in the Park. How does a call to the Park to report a gunshot not get reported somewhere in the records? Suspicious to me.

Sheehy made a mistake lying about shooting himself in the arm in the Park. Later, admitted it. Probably just a split second decision mistake.

I read that multiple times about former Sheehy military friends having known or hearing about his wound in Afghanistan. And recall that almost all of the naysayers claiming negative things about Sheehy or his wounds or whatever, were partisans, probably out to get him in the election.

I followed this closely during the election and made multiple comments and posts in various publications.

I also followed the crap and lies about Sheehy's fire-fighting company. I knew this company. I know how to read public company reports. I know the basics of accounting. I know about public finance bond financings are done. Testers and his people totally lied about Sheehy's company. Nothing that they alleged during the election turned out to be true.
 
mthoopsfan said:
My take is that he took a bullet in friendly fire in Afghanistan, or wherever he was, and it lodged in his arm. He didn't report it. My army Ranger son told me this non-reporting happens and is not that unusual with Special Ops soldiers. Years later in the Park, he fell while hiking and hurt his harm, realizing that he dislodged the bullet. He went to a hospital. They worked on it, fixed the injury and bandaged him. The healthcare people were aware or made of aware of the now dislodged bullet. I suppose Sheehy may have told them the old bullet was dislodged. They told him the bullet had to be reported anyway, even though he had explained where it came from. I wonder if the hospital reported it to authorities, or if someone at hospital knew who Sheehy was and reported it to authorities.

After he was bandaged and checking out, a park police guy showed up and started asking questions. Even tho Sheehy had mentioned the prior injury in a book, he made a mistake, telling the cop that he had dropped his gun and it went off, hitting him in his arm. And Sheehy signed a statement to that effect, I believe a police statement.

Eventually, the Park cop was asked how he had come to the hospital to talk to Sheehy. I read this somewhere: the cop then lied and said a call had come to Park police saying a shot had been fired in the Park. Okay, if true, how did he find Sheehy at the hospital? I also read that on that day, there are no Park records of anyone reporting a gunshot or anything similar in the Park. How does a call to the Park to report a gunshot not get reported somewhere in the records? Suspicious to me.

Sheehy made a mistake lying about shooting himself in the arm in the Park. Later, admitted it. Probably just a split second decision mistake.

I read that multiple times about former Sheehy military friends having known or hearing about his wound in Afghanistan. And recall that almost all of the naysayers claiming negative things about Sheehy or his wounds or whatever, were partisans, probably out to get him in the election.

I followed this closely during the election and made multiple comments and posts in various publications.

I also followed the crap and lies about Sheehy's fire-fighting company. I knew this company. I know how to read public company reports. I know the basics of accounting. I know about public finance bond financings are done. Testers and his people totally lied about Sheehy's company. Nothing that they alleged during the election turned out to be true.
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Great, let’s assume you nailed it, and everything you wrote is 100% how it happened. My point is that he needs to get MUCH better at telling the story due to the fact it will follow him if the party wants to raise his profile. The truth is always the easiest thing to tell, so he should be able to learn to do it effectively very easily. He didn’t do a good job of it in the interview you linked.

And, you’re right that making up a lie that you shot yourself if the truth is that you fell is a very odd lie to tell.
 
If there is any time we could use a senator like Bodnar it would be right now. We are experiencing the collapse of the United States and it is going to keep getting drastically worse. Daines is nothing but a spineless puppet and is too much of a coward to stand up to these sick and twisted pedophiles running our country.
I'm not saying Bodnar would fix everything but we desperately need to start making changes asap for the future of our kids and grandkids.
 
argh! said:
so he shot himself in the military while on the way to being a navy seal, and didn't want to admit it. friendly fire. then, years later, his bathing habits had been such that the old wound site became infected/inflamed while he was in glacier with a loaded gun. that's how he went to the glacier hospital with a gun shot wound from afghanistan. sort of.
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Checks out 🤙
 
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