Nevada Firefighter's Memorial Shame

One has to wonder what the Nevada Firefighters Memorial group was thinking about when they named John Oceguera as a distinguished service member of the fire services.
From Channel 3 Las Vegas: Plaques with the names of Clark County Capt. Paul Young and North Las Vegas Firefighter Dean Tajima will be added to those of other Nevada firefighters who have lost their lives in the line of duty on the Nevada Firefighters’ Memorial on Saturday. 
The 10 a.m. formal ceremony, which is open to the public, will be held at the Nevada Firefighters’ Memorial in Carson City’s Mills Park....
After the memorial ceremony, a plaque bearing the names of North Las Vegas Firefighter John W. Oceguera, Clark County Firefighter Mark L. Balen, and Reno Firefighter Charles T. Laking will be dedicated on the distinguished service section of the memorial.
Distinguished service recognition nominations are made by fire departments throughout the state or by the Board of Directors of the Nevada Firefighters Memorial. Up to five individuals can be recognized each year, with selection based on strict criteria.
http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/story/Nevada-Firefighters-Memorial-additions/-jgIhlyE8k2wDC4f_KbFVA.cspx
Oceguera is nothing but a political hack, a thief and a total scum bag.
From the LV Badger: Responding to a Nevada Journal news story, the North Las Vegas Fire Department on Wednesday released copies of previously undisclosed employment agreements with Nevada Assembly Speaker John Oceguera, who also is the department’s assistant fire chief.
The documents describe schedules outlining the assemblyman’s fire department work obligations during the 2009 and 2011 legislative sessions, when he was also acting as a top officer of the Nevada Assembly — in 2009 as Democratic majority leader and in 2011 as speaker.
According to the documents, Oceguera and the department agreed that during the 2legislative session he would work 18 hours a week for the department, half of his normal fire department work week. For the 2011 session, the agreement specified he would work for the department at least nine hours a week. For the balance of the legislative sessions’ work weeks, he would take annual and holiday leave and unpaid furlough days.
http://lasvegasbadger.blogspot.com/2011/07/double-dipper-who-steals-from.html
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Worse yet is that Oceguera abused his fellow firefighters and payroll by promising to work another firefighter's shift after they had worked for him. From another Nevada Journal article: During the 2001 session — his first session in the Legislature — Oceguera had arranged with other firemen to trade shifts to cover over 92 percent of the time he was in Carson City. At the end of the session, having paid his co-workers back 48 hours working Sundays, he still owed them 912 hours. During the rest of the year, he paid back 222.
In 2002, say departmental records, he paid back another 352 hours but used another 190 in additional shift trades. He thus ended the year with a 528-hour shift-trade deficit.
So, you have a firefighter who has stolen from other firefighters and he is being awarded with a distinguished service award? 
How pathetic is that?
It really does a great disservice and dishonors the other people on the wall for either being a LODD or have a distinguished service career by having Oceguera;s name on the wall.