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Jason Little (69)
Pulver was weak in my opinion when he rushed out the Beale text story. There are a whole bunch of reasons why it might have been a good idea. Unless there is a real good story to be told in the end I think he should have sucked up the pressure and kept some control over events. As opposed to no control.
Ok, so after some preliminary investigations, Pulver became aware of the inglorious text messages and images. It seems that he, and his advisers, then concluded that there was an issue much worse than the argument on the plane to be dealt with. Apparently, the appropriate manner for dealing with that larger issue was through a Code of Conduct investigation, a process that I understand was agreed with RUPA following previous discipline issues.
What was he meant to do then. Not tell the public, us, that the matter of the plane argument had been deferred and not tell us about the further investigation? That would have led to very loud protests from those of us who might then have seen it as a means of getting Beale off the hook. There probably wouldn't have been any other logical explanation. And for those journos who might have had an inkling of the further matters, wouldn't that have been ripe pickings for further scandal mongering. Things would only have been worse imo.