My David Alvey Story

My Name is Ken Snyder. I am the one responsible for this page. I am also the one who was (for 168 days) a Traffic Signal Technician for BPU - "sent home" after those 168 days out of a six-month (which would have been a 183 day) probationary period.

There was no "record" of poor performance, the records (at the time, before they were altered) showed I was improving in my position, and I was told more than once that I was doing good work. The real reason? I was still serving in the Kansas Air National Guard and wanted to work at BPU as well.

While the Department of Labor did a pitifully-poor jobof investigating my claim, I secured their files and a lawyer at my own expense. We discovered that there were falsified documents, poorly-conducted "interviews" with associated parties, many instances were questions were asked and never answered, and other items that had us poised to expose the liars and cowards in charge at BPU.

However, my funds were exhausted by this time, and we needed thousands of dollars to take depositions and get a copy of the deposition that I would be making. At the same time BPU (through their unethical outside lawyers at McAnany, Van Cleave, and Phillips) proposed an Offer of Judgment that paid me a small amount, paid whatever fees my attorney submitted, and got me a judgment against the Unified Government, against Eric Clark (BPU supervisor), against William A. Johnson (who Alvey brags he "helped hire at BPU") and against BPU. This cannot be denied, despite how much they all would like to see this "go away" - Alvey signed the checks as the Board President.

At no time did Alvey want to know the whole story. He blindly accepted the story BPU management gave him.

Now Alvey likes to brag about his son's military career, but conveniently forgets how he turned his back on someone who only wanted to serve his country (this was my second military service period, I was in the Marine Corps from 1980 to 1987. I joined the ANG in 2003, sixteen years after my USMC service) and work at BPU. His hypocrisy on this is off the charts.

The question should also be asked: if this discrimination case was one that Alvey wanted to feebly attempt to "pay off" then how many others did he attempt this with? The others may have been lost to time, but my losses (and more importantly, my family's losses) will not "go away" so easily. He goes on to say in his latest mailing "It's time for new leadership" - he was part of the old leadership, so why would we expect anything to change this time?

For me, the choice is clear: NO TO ALVEY.