Kimbrough Fired From Texas A&M System, Revealed Knife
Updated 4:15 p.m.: The report from the Texas A&M University Police Department regarding the termination of A&M System Deputy Chancellor Jay Kimbrough has been added to the bottom of this post.
In it, officer Craig Dudley reports: "[System General Counsel Ray] Bonilla stated that Kimbrough refused to hand over his keys and pass card and that Kimbrough brandished a knife in a non-threatening manner. According to Bonilla, Kimbrough stated 'If anyone is man enough to take them (referring to the keys and pass card) bring it on.'"
Dudley makes clear in his report that the security ...
Comments (48)
Lee Dunkelberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"I got no heads up from anybody," Kimbrough said.
That coming from someone heading up higher education. Perry is even sabotaging his beloved A&M, although English may not be one of his long suits either.
Mark Kelly via Texas Tribune on Facebook
All hands on deck! Jettison the boy....he's done nothing for the campaign in the last 22.5 minutes!
Lourdes Bugarín via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeah.... just good ole boys having some clean fun.
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Will he have to return the coloring books he got from the Bush library? Did he have to turn in the secret aggie handbook? Poor aggies..........
Leonard N. Chan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Dang... didn't see this coming...
Ed Covington via Texas Tribune on Facebook
i'm as liberal as they come, what does a man carrying a pocketknife have to do with the price of beans in China? in the Texas I was brought up in, if you didn't have a pocketknife by the time you were 6 years old, you weren't allowed to use the urinals, you had to squat...just sayin...
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I was always told "a man with a knife is worth five dollars a day more." I have contributed many a knife to the TSA.
Mary Bess Whidden via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Always ready for the watermelon: $300,000 yr.
jpt51
"Sure I displayed it, yes," he said. "But I do that 20 times a week. I do it when someone needs to cut a watermelon." Jay must eat a lot of watermelon or the guy has a problem!
Randall Craig
Tribune needs to find out if there was any watermelon in the office where he was fired. This fellow collapsed in the Texas Senate gallery recently. Based on his recent comments and behavior, I wonder if he has health problems.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I will hold comment until alleged knife is pictured. Jim Bowie carried pocket knife too.
Jack Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeah, I pull out my pocket knife almost every day when I'm having a disagreement with people. Just because I pull it out during an argument, why would anyone think I would...you know...use it for anything (insert eyeballs rolling here).
Jerry L Doyle Sr. via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A man without a pocket knife is like a man without a pocket knife,, what's the importance.??
Ronnie Odom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry would have pulled his Glock.
Ray Chappelle via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texans...gotta love 'em.
Joel Irby via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I don't know this Kimbrough guy from Adam, but I think there must've been some history of poor judgement before this. Either that, or his Deputy Chancellor position was low-hanging fruit in the orchard of higher education funding; every U probably has one or two rotten apples.
Martha Dunkelberger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So...a lot of Texans carry pocket knives. I don't think that's the problem. But the guy said: "I was just saying I was not going to be intimidated." THAT's the problem.
Wilkins Micawber
Beware the man whose neck is as thick as his head.
Ian Mercer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
My last boss used to pull out his pocket knife in jest with me. This was usually followed by me producing the poets from my Swiss army knife and offering him a purple nurple and him laughing as we put our "weapons" away ... Some people need to stop making mountains out of molehills.
Ian Mercer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pliers not poets. Darn you steve jobs.
James Chapman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It would've been alright if it had been a concealed handgun, preferably one adorned with a laser. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4
majrtin arocena
Mr. Reduction In Force, finally got a taste of his own medicine. I am sure he understands that his immediate expulsion from the workplace was necessary to ensure effectiveness and efficacy of the system and safety for the rest of the employees. The pocketknife side of the story serves well as an example of his modus operandi in state affairs.
martin nash
Give me a break, Sharp is a loon.
mike murray
"Kimbrough said he's been a public servant from the time he left high school until today, and he doesn't plan to stop now. "I plan to try to do something constructive," he said. "
"Public Servants" aren't highly paid political operatives, which is what this guy is. In addition, "productive" isn't a term I'd associate with bloated and overly expensive government.
Randall Craig
Isn't the internet great? In the middle of the Tribune text popped up an ad for Tribune sponsor TAMU! At the top is a banner advertising an interview with Sharp! I don't know if this is positioning at its ultimate, or serendipity.
Tom Sweazea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I carry a Leatherman micro multi-tool. I too will not be intimidated ?
Peter Witt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The key part to the story is he is miffed he didn't get a call from Gov Good Hair himself. Shows that he really wasn't loyal to Sharp directly, but thought of himself as a Perry plant...and he was refusing to be a potted plant.
Becky Goetz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Can we get an answer to the obvious question, which is: "why is a deputy chancellor paid 300K per year?"
Lee Nichols via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cutting-edge journalism! :-)
Karen Hawkins via Texas Tribune on Facebook
In summary, students can carry guns on campus, but the chancellor can not have a pocket knife.
Richard Melaun via Texas Tribune on Facebook
is pretty sure that Kimbrough is a Certified Jackwagon...
A B
Great job, Mr. Sharp! Would you please check with Antonio Cepeda-Benito, the Dean of Faculties, about the ignored sexual harassment case (a faculty and a grad student)? Are Admission and Immigration offices involved in this case at Texas A&M? What's going on there? Take a look at this case! Maybe you can fire Benito next!
Russell Stone via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's John Sharp's decision to make and he made it.
James Henson
Nice use of "revealed".
Barbara Nalls Golson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
PERRY IS A LIAR AND A CROOK.
Thomas Prentice via Texas Tribune on Facebook
RIght. Perry "just doesn't know" anything about anything.
Alana Carpenter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Has anyone read the man's credentials? I think it's only fair to give someone who has worked in government kudos for working. He apparently has over 40 years of experience in public service, and as Chancellor, he was responsible for the A&M system's oversight of human resources, policy, real estate, special projects, etc. Sounds like a decent salary for quite a bit of responsibility.
Samantha Winn via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeehaw?
Danne Absher via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Maybe they can find someone to do the same job for less money. That was the theory behind the teacher layoffs in Texas.
Yana Bear
So, I must admit I was glad to see Mr. Kimbrough getting what he would of done to anyone else who would of displayed the same behavior. To read he brings a weapon everywhere with him while he went in a massacred some of the best employees in TYC makes me happy. It appears he has the "do as I say, not as I do" attitude. There were many good people who served just as much and as dedicated as him that were fired for nothing but to make a name for himself. How does it feel Mr. Kimbrough, what is sad and we shall see if the state practices what it preaches and does not hire him back, isn't a weapon at work no matter what it is a reason for not being rehired?
Cliff McSparran via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sounds like he's as nuts as Perry
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Did he have to return his secret aggie decoder ring? They sure paid him a bucket load of money there at a&m college.
mike murray
The idea that a pocket knife in the hands of an old man is a "weapon" is beyond foolish. What's next letter openers? The pussification of America continues.
Jason Stoddard via Texas Tribune on Facebook
file under "don't bring a knife to a political fight and other "dissolutions of the good ol' boy network"
Chris Sigala via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I guess this was his last gig 'em
Robert Griffice via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I got a pocketknife...I'm jes sayin
William Leavenworth
I'm no admirer or supporter of Perry, but this looks like a pretty sleazy way to dismiss an upper-level employee. And the pocket knife thing is absurd. When I was a kid in grade school in Minnesota in the late forties and early fifties, we used to play mumblety-peg on the school grounds; all the boys had pocket knives and nobody ever was threatened.
Sherry Hardoin
Jay Kimbrough is a wonderful man who has done a lot in his life time.. Everything was totally blown out of proportion .. John Sharp is worthless!!