Excessive Absenteeism Costs Oregon Mayor His Job  Brady
Harrington, who last November was elected to his second term as
mayor of Sodaville, Oregon, isn't mayor anymore, because his
city council peers were tired of him never showing up for
meetings and replaced him. Available job alert!  Apparently
Harrington, 34, was too busy fighting fires and hitting the
books to deal with official council and committee business; in
June, he began missing meetings, and continued skipping them
through July. As you probably know, Sodaville bylaws allow the
city council to replace a council member after they miss 64 days
of work—so council members fired Harrington and gave his special
mayoral chair and bejeweled scepter to council president Nick
Heineck, who's now the top executive of their 300-person town.
Nobody in Sodaville should be surprised by this outcome, really.
Last June, their local paper reported the following:   A
wildland firefighter who has trained to serve on a natural
disaster response team, Harrington said t