John Rowland - Washington Post Article

A Look Back, And Up - washingtonpost.com

FROM THE ARTICLE:

"Gratuities were accepted as if they were his due," U.S. District Judge Peter Dorsey noted at Rowland's sentencing in March 2005. He went off to federal prison as inmate 15623-014, in Loretto, Pa.

In his job, he denied himself virtually nothing. "I did some stupid things," [Rowland] says now. "It started with my sense of entitlement, the belief that I deserved whatever came to me, that everything was about me."

"From the time you arrive, the job of everybody in the office is about making you look good and feel good, and after a while you believe that is the way your life is supposed to be -- people doing things for you. The sun is rising with you -- that's what everybody believes. You end up believing it, too. The people in your office and the lobbyists, they're all saying the same thing: how great you are, and how hard you work for the state, and how much everybody appreciates you, and how you deserve to be rewarded. It starts there."


ONE COMMENT:

Truth is no one is entitled to gratuities even when they are given by loved ones. They are to be appreciated in moderation like fine brandy but to expect they are entitlements lead to ruin.

Many said they were tired of reading about this man in The Washington Post.

Some question whether he's really learned anything at all.

Whatever it is, it is a sad story. Among other things, his impulsivity, if the anecdote is true that he ran into a old sweetheart at a dance and immediately suggested they both divorce and marry.
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