This is was a simple solution. Call and ask. Great work Dan and thank you Pike Campaign. And now everyone can relax. Or not.

Nice reporting Dan. It looks like it is also a drug rehab.

Now the natural follow up is when were those 10 years? I see that the hospital is being sued for wrongful deaths in Decemebr and later this year. I would presume Pike was no longer president in May, but I may be wrong.

Here’s a link to the Newsday story:

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/dad-files-suit-after-son-dies-in-amityville-drug-rehab-1.1417579

I never suspected that Doug Pike waslying about serving as president of some type of medical facility, but I think he didn’t state which facility becuase he was looking to hide something. There may be more cases like this one waiting to be dug up.

Also, I think must reasonable people would say that a psychiatric hospital and drug rehab facility are not the images that were conjured up when they read Pike’s resume and saying he was president of the board of a hospital.

I for one was thinking of a full scale facility with an ER, probably somewhere in Chesco or Montco. That may or may not have been the idea, but its misleading nonetheless.

What does “president of chairman of the board of directors” do exactly??
Sounds like Daddy got Junior a pretty sweet job when he was all “growed up”!

Dan- thanks for confirming- but I have to agree, who would possibly think they could lie about something like this?

On the Pike side: maybe they didn’t want to emphasize it specifically because it wasn’t a full scale facility and thus just wanted to mention it (as opposed to going into detail) to convey he was familiar with health care issues but not central to who he is.

Obviously that reads the best possible intentions into the campaigns actions but it is another possiblitily.

On another note- I’ve wanted to see a Dem elected to this seat since 2002 so I really hope the candidates take the same approach as Costello announced and stay positive in the primary- it would be a shame to lose the seat because we beat each other up.

A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. The body sometimes has a different name, such as board of trustees, board of governors, board of managers, or executive board. It is often simply referred to as “the board.”

A board’s activities are determined by the powers, duties, and responsibilities delegated to it or conferred on it by an authority outside itself. These matters are typically detailed in the organization’s bylaws. The bylaws commonly also specify the number of members of the board, how they are to be chosen, and when they are to meet.

In an organization with voting members, e.g., a professional society, the board acts on behalf of, and is subordinate to, the organization’s full assembly, which usually chooses the members of the board. In a stock corporation, the board is elected by the stockholders and is the highest authority in the management of the corporation. In a nonstock corporation with no general voting membership, e.g., a university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution.[1]

Typical duties of boards of directors include[2][3]

* governing the organization by establishing broad policies and objectives;
* selecting, appointing, supporting and reviewing the performance of the chief executive;
* ensuring the availability of adequate financial resources;
* approving annual budgets;
* accounting to the stakeholders for the organization’s performance.

The legal responsibilities of boards and board members vary with the nature of the organization, and with the jurisdiction within which it operates. For public corporations, these responsibilities are typically much more rigorous and complex than for those of other types.

Typically the board chooses one of its members to be the chairman.

There ya go Flynn. Enjoy. Seems as though they actually play a role in a company. Pike certainly knows what goes on behind the scenes in a hospital. The part that is messed up right now.

They didn’t mention the hospital because it indicates that he “isn’t from around here.”

Of course, he does live IN the district at least.

Is this the Amityville Asylum of Hollywood fame? It’s located in Amityville. Could that be the reason that they did not want to name the mental health facility that Mr. Pike led? It is a far cry from a Level 1 trauma center or any other acute care facility, but I presume it has some of the same problems with Medicare, Medicaid, etc.

First off, I never doubted he held that job, second, REALLY, listing the job description?

Stash, your description seems to describe publicly held companies or a board with voting members, such as a fraternal organization. Can anyone tell me what exactly Doug Pike’s qualifications for this would have been as an editorial writer aside from being the son of the owner? Yeah, I didn’t think so.

There are a ton of unemployed journalists now and I doubt many of them are landing gigs as head of the board of directors of meantla health and drug rehab wards.

But we are still left with the open question of when exactly his ten years as board chair would have been. Was he doing it while working as a journalist? Did he just leave and were some of these questionable deaths on his watch?

where did it say he is now the president? or that it was during his run as a journalist? stop reading into things.

Ohhhhhhhhh so Daddy gave him the job. Sweet he fits in with the D’s perfectly, expect handouts. What a joke. I think Trevedi has a chance.

Dan,

The bigger issue may be your approach to follow-up questions. I can respect that this blog is about the campaign insider view of the world, but that seems really short sighted. “Textbook campaigns” don’t leave out information by mistake, and I think you may have missed the point on why so many people still make comments on the hospital element of Pike’s bio.

These are simple questions like, where did you work, when did you work there, what did you achieve, what specific examples can you share about your experiences? I would have liked to see the results of a Q&A like that with Trivedi in your previous interview.

On another note, it’s pretty obvious that Pike would have gotten a few breaks because of his Dad (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that). I think it’s much more important to know what he achieved with those opportunities.

My perspective in this is that I want to see PA6 go blue, and the general election is likely to get pretty rough. The candidates should be answering probing questions now, not later.