Head of local Better Business Bureau rescinds resignation

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By Sharon Bernstein, Los Angeles Times
February 8, 2011, 8:25 p.m.
The beleaguered head of the local Better Business Bureau, who resigned in December amid controversy over the group's letter-grade rating system and his high salary, has rescinded his resignation and vowed to fight to restore his reputation. William Mitchell, who made more than $400,000 in 2008 running the Southern California chapter, had resigned in the middle of an audit of the chapter by the National Council of Better Business Bureaus. But on Monday, he circulated an e-mail to his staff in which he criticized the Washington-based national council, saying executives were trying to take over the Southern California chapter and pack its board of directors with their own people ... http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bbb-president-20110209,0,2836402.story


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1. Wow! Some people just don't get it.

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2. It's fascinating: the national organization is worried that the LA area franchise

will damage the BBB brandname, and the staff of LA area franchise really don't want the national organization poking around in the local records