<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 12, 2017 1:52 PM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When you work in a government bureaucracy long enough, you come to expect inefficiency, ignorance, incompetence, and corruption. When you get anything else, it is just a pleasant surprise. This message written by a government employee in a state that has had the head of all three branches of state government removed in the past year (Alabama).<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yeah. Ouch!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Allen Beddingfield<br>
Systems Engineer<br>
Office of Information Technology<br>
The University of Alabama<br>
Office <a href="tel:205-348-2251" value="+12053482251">205-348-2251</a><br>
<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu">allen@ua.edu</a><br>
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On 4/12/17, 12:13 PM, "<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> on behalf of Kyle Brieden" <<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:kyle@txmoose.com">kyle@txmoose.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I don't pretend to understand how government *actually* works, but this<br>
just seems like pure, bald-faced corruption. How does something like<br>
this actually happen? Seriously.<br>
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Very respectfully,<br>
Kyle Brieden<br>
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On 12-04-2017 12:49, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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