TERMINATOR SALVATION II (The PAT HOOPER Version)

Pat Hooper 

Author of the Minority Report

What is the semantics between ‘Termination’ and ‘Resignation’ regarding the long awaited departure of former CEO, Ray Hooper, and who was the real terminator?

Pat Hooper seems to insist CEO Hooper had his employment cruelly terminated (meaning sacked) by Matthew Reid.

It could be said, Pat Hooper, has an obsession with his version of the standing down and termination of his best buddy, CEO Hooper, including an obvious dislike of, Matthew Reid, bordering on paranoia. 

The Minority Report 2.2.1(6)

Total Recall, according to Pat Hooper, is ‘the only knowledge I had of actions taken against CEO Hooper by President Cr. Reid were those I read by (in) a letter terminating CEO Hooper signed by Cr. Reid”.

Unfortunately, others public statements at that time suggest that Pat Hooper may be lax with the inconvenient truth. This includes the Deputy Shire President, and the man himself, Ray Hooper.

Firstly there is the public comment to the press by the, then, Deputy Shire President, Mark Duperouzel on the day that Ray Hooper resigned. “It was his (Ray Hooper’s) decision to hand in his notice”.

On April 15, 2015, Sunday Times journalist, Peter Law, wrote in the online publication ‘Perth Now’ that “Ray Hooper quits suddenly” and has tendered his resignation.

On the same day, Ray Hooper, wrote” Further to the orchestrated actions by you (Cr. Reid) and Council (then consisting of Crs. Hooper, Boyle, Duperouzel, Wallace and Smythe) prior to and at the Ordinary and Special Council Meetings held on the 14^th April, 2014, I consider that you have made my continuing employment untenable and I consequently tender my resignation effective as of Wednesday 4^th August, 2014

Besides being addressed to Matthew Reid, all Councillors (including Pat Hooper), the resignation was also to be distributed to Tyhshca (it’s actually spelled Tyhscha Ray), Dick, Dora, Nip, Fluff and Uncle Tom Cobley and all. (It is appropriate that a resignation such as this should have been directed to the Shire President and all Councillors only!)

This letter was Ray Hooper’s request for his employment to be ‘terminated’ by himself, on behalf of himself, not by anyone else, through tendering his own resignation.

So that is two resigned, one quit, one resignation, one demand to be personally terminated and no evidence of the actual termination of Ray Hooper’s employment, as CEO, by  Matthew Reid.

You may ask why someone, (CEO Hooper) who found his position so untenable, tendered his resignation and wished to have his employment terminated on 15^th April 2014, gave his date of departure to be 4^th August, 2014.  The answer is money, the payout of his contract!

Pat Hooper, in his Minority Report 2.2.1(6) also claims that he indicated to someone-or-other (named hearsay) that under no circumstances could the ‘Termination Letter’ from Cr. Reid contain the word ‘Council’ ‘as council had no part in the decision’.

So where is this alleged letter of Termination by Cr. Reid?

And being only one of six (6) Councillors, what gave, Pat Hooper, the right to demand that Councils name not be included on a council document even if it does not exist?  The answer may be a dose of extreme egomania? 

Unfortunately for Pat Hooper, Ray Hooper had already written that the orchestrated actions of Cr. Reid and ‘Council’ had caused him to tender his resignation.

So is Pat Hooper saying that Ray Hooper is lying and that Council (which included him) had no part in the causing the resignation- when Ray Hooper accuses it (and by association Cr. Hooper) of doing so? Or is it because, Pat Hooper, was left out of the process by some (or all) of his colleagues.

Mark Duperouzel said CEO Hooper decided to hand in his notice, journalist, Peter Law said Hooper quit and handed in his resignation and Ray Hooper himself, in another letter addressed to, then CEO, Michael Keeble and Councillors of 8^th October 2014 said ‘at no time since my resignation as Chief Executive Officer has Council communicated with me directly” (meaning Matthew Reid’s letter of termination to Ray Hooper is a figment of Pat Hooper’s imagination.)

This rather poisonous and threatening epistle, from Ray Hooper, states that’ there should be no improper use of information, eg my letter of resignation, personal records and the Fitzgerald Report (the Fitz Gerald Report) to cause harm and detriment to myself and others’. (Who the others are is everybody’s guess)

Ray Hooper’s demands of Council included that it stated, publically, that no credit card fraud had been found. That would mean that the current Major Fraud Squad investigation would not have proceeded.

And that Council released a public apology to Ray Hooper, and the others who were named in the Fitz Gerald Report.

This, according to Ray Hooper, would have finalized matters between himself and the York Shire Council as an entity. However he said ‘I reserve the right to take any necessary and relevant action against any individual Councillors proven to have acted maliciously or deliberately to harm my reputation, health and wellbeing and to have been directly involved in any defamatory action against me”.

This right has never been exercised, because Ray Hooper and the others adversely named in the Fitz Gerald Report, could have their claims of libel trashed (then turned against them) in the Supreme Court.  An extremely expensive- and potentially dangerous process for everyone concerned.

So what of York’s own ‘Icarus’ who flew too close to the sun, had his wing-wax melted, landed in a shit-pile of adverse public opinion and maybe regrets writing the Minority Report.

I think most wish that, from now on, he keeps a low public profile and never attempts to write his memoirs, called “Alzheimer’s of Convenience”.

David Taylor.

TONY SIMPSON TO BE BACKBENCHED

It is of some interest that political pundits predict Minister, Tony Simpson, will be dumped from his job in March 2016, one year out from the WA State Election on Saturday March 11, 2017.