Number 9

Corpus Christi's City Council just this Wednesday voted for their interim City Manager, Angel Escobar, as City Manager. Though this shouldn't be a big shocker to anyone, it came as one to the City Council. The Council expected him to turn down the post if he was voted in by only a 5-4 margin, because of a secret meeting they'd held, according to the Caller Times . Of course, the 62-year old 38-year city government veteran did not turn it down. The 5-4 vote mirrored the same 5-4 vote the City Council made to allow the former City Engineer to apply for the position well after the deadline and well after the city spent thousands for a recruiting firm to find applicants, and well after other applicants had already been flown to Corpus for interviews, vetted and screened and eliminated. So, after the Council wasted the City's time and money and applicants' time and money, disregarded protocol and voted for a unqualified candidate who couldn't even submit his application on time, they were surprised he accepted the nomination.