How many wrongs make it right Nate?

Why is it you call yourselves righteous but you hate everyone that has less then you? I hope you never have to experience anything like that, but if you do thank the person who helps you....please......

this woman is down right ugly as a clerk,,,bottomline...... if that would have happen the other way around you all would had a fit. I mean badly....crying badly

Please, Nickolaus may not have made the mistake but it is her department and the department needs to be accountable. Can anyone tell me why she still is in this position?

Exactly Jane!

If a cashier at McDonalds accidentally makes an error with his or her job how many chances do they get before they are written up, suspended, or fired?

Documented history of incompetence should be enough to have her removed from her position. As Stephanie pointed out, anyone who repeatedly makes mistakes in low end menial jobs is subject to immediate dismissal. Someone with the important responsibilities and duties of Ms Nickolaus should not be given a pass every time she fails.

i think she should be terminated because she costing too much money in errors and not doing her job effectively and efficiently.. if anyone made those two major mistakes they would be terminated. Why is she so entitled? I think we all deserve an answer to that.

People - she's elected...can't be terminated until the voters of Waukesha County stop electing any incompetent person with an R behind their name.

I would like to see an investigation into any phone calls Waste Management Inc. (WMI) might have made to Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' office concerning this issue, and visa versa over the last year. Did WMI call Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus to attempt to negotiate lower fees or inform her that the letter was in the mail? Did WMI attempted to contact Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus via email? It seems that something as important as managing a land fill expantion issue that would have added $1 million to the county coffers during these hard economic timees would have had a higher level of attention paid to it. I would also like to know who signed for the initial letter, and the chian-of-possession after that fact. I allege no wrong doing, but something doesn't seem right here, and an investigation into the handling of this issue would help the office impliment new procedures to make sure this doesn't happen again, or if there are other instances with other county contracters having their letters, emails, and calls overlooked, that would also come to an end.
Respectfully,

CG

"I can’t place blame because I can’t know for sure what happened because I wasn’t there," Haukohl said.
Translation: So you can't blame ME !

I wonder how much in campaign contributions Waste Management, Inc. makes to these people. All of their personal bank accounts should be subpeonaed by the State Auditor to check for kickbacks. And the Attorney General should file a lawsuit for misfeasance against all involved.

Wow. All politics aside, this is an insanely huge gaffe. Coming on the heels of several other blatant examples of what can be called incompetence at best, it is certainly worth "making a mountain out of a mole hill".
I cannot think of any reason why this woman is deserving of any benefit of a doubt given her history.
On a side note, it struck me reading the comments that anyone defending or excusing this nonsense refers to the Clerk as "Kathy". The informality is odd. Maybe it's just me...

What about the "solution" that now forces other county offices a significant cost in terms of efficiency when it was the CLERK's office that erred? That really infuiates me--red tape creation for others, rather than personal responsibility. To be clear, red tape can be needed, but employees---elected or otherwise are at the heart of responsible government, business, and so on by their own responsible actions.

I find it fascinating that the real story here is almost completely overlooked: landfill expansion! Why are we expanding landfills? We should be closing them down and instead building refuse processing facilities. Perhaps we remain convinced that dumping our garbage in the ground is still an acceptable method of dealing with our waste. We are incredibly short-sighted.

This has nothing to do with having an "R" or a "D" or an "I" after one's name. This is pure incompetence - something that Nicklaus has shown more than a couple of times. She needs to be voted out of this office, as she is clearly not able to handle the responsibilities.

...and remember...we don't vote to put great people into office - they're not all that great, any of 'em...we vote to throw the idiots OUT!

She sure has a habit of losing a lot of things, doesn't she? Maybe if it would help the Republicans, she would find it a lot easier! I just thank God that she doesn't handle our nuclear codes!

The People of Waukesha County deserved better. Those 7,000 votes that magically appeared off her personal laptop that gave her ex-boss Prosser the Election, is just one of many problems/inconsistencies that have come out of that office. There are plenty of people who can do her job, because it's obvious, She Can't.

Heh- If you think you're going to vote Kathy Nickolaus out, just remember: She counts the votes, and she has a way of "losing" and "finding" a lot of things. Until votes in Waukesha County are counted by hand in with witnesses in public at the ward level, forget about fair elections. That goes for all of Wisconsin, and the whole country. There have been far too many "irregularities" and voting machine "glitches," and far too many questionable hair thin victories by Republicans since 2000. It's all very, very suspicious.

Nate- the Teamsters don't own Waste Management.

Nate,
Here is a link to the Waste Management Website
http://investors.wm.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=119743&p=irol-financiallanding
It does not have union employees and teamsters is a union.
You just lost all credibility with all of your comments.
Either you are not well informed or you are willing to lie to further your anti union agenda.
Either way, you have no credibility.

the irony is that after attacking public employees for over a year they blame the lack of public employees as an excuse. they could have saved $1million if only they had hired a co0uple of more clerks for $30k a year. what a bunch of hypocrite dumb asses.

The bottom line is that you are getting the government that you deserve. The people of Waukesha County voted for this person, who has repeatedly shown her inability to organize her office, and you are now getting what you asked for. You have to wait until the next election before you can do anything and even then, I doubt you will.

To the Waukesha County residents who are so concerned about Kathy Nickolaus. Put some actions behind your blowhard posts. Go out and organize a recall of her(who knows I might even sign it as she does appear to not be up to the job) or vote her out in the next election.

To the residents of other counties (especially Milwaukee), go pound sand. You have plenty of issues that you should address (Chris Abele, Tom Barrett's $100 million-2 mile street car, slum landlord/county board president Lee Holloway, billions of gallons of poop dumped into the lake, crime,crime,crime, millions of dollars of pension back-drops, crime) before you poke around out here.

Political leaders have been told this lady is incompetent! When are you going to fire her!

Just when you thought the reputation of Waukesha & WI couldn't get any lower.....

@Jane. Agree, WHY does she still have her job? As a department head, her head needs to roll for sure because taxpayers cannot afford her department's multiple and costly mistakes. How many chances is she going to get to prove she isn't fit, competent or skilled enough? Her personnel file must surely be bulging enough to offer and insist she say goodbye.

This is what you get when one political party contols all the elected offices (partisan or not). They don't have to answer for their poor performance or bad decisions. The highest duty for these people is loyalty to the GOP, so why care about mistakes like Nichlaus has made?. We have the same (mis)rule in Madison, with legislative and executive (and mostly judicial, too) branches controlled by one party. People who disagree do turn out to vote- heck, even some of them run for office against these party hacks. But until the majority wakes up and smells the coffee (to quote Ann Landers), nothing will change. Nicholas's replacement will be some GOP hand-picked yes-man or yes-woman. With the "R" next to his/her name, that's who the majority will vote for.

She's always got an excuse, doesn't she? How much does this person make for doing such a sub-par job?

Something especially noteworthy is that she blames this mistake on the fact that she was busy cleaning up her other "mistake". I teach children and have taught every grade, pre-K through 12. Small children make the same kind of excuses. Usually, by senior high age, personal responsibility has developed. Key word - usually. It seems to be declining rapidly in many elected positions especially.

Blames it on a reduced staff due to recount. I thought they wanted smaller government????

She's too busy shredding all the documents related to her election fraud.

A skunk by any other name still stinks.

And the winner is Prosser?? Tell me something sha- is Prosser a winner? It will be interesting to see if indeed fraud was committed after the investigation. You know about the investigation - right?

Regressives will always defend their own even in the face of incompetence. Remember Bush, the reason why we have this resession and looming deficit.

kathy is my girl