Martin said USA Track and Field had failed "to competently manage this matter".
Autry added: "The closing of the blinds, resulting in Mr Lockett dying in secrecy among state officials who had failed to competently fulfil their duties, exemplifies the lack of transparency that marked the entire process".
The coroner, Sir John Goldring, intervened after Duckenfield had repeatedly declined to answer directly whether he had failed to act competently.
But Mr. Dinkins met a racial debacle of his own when he failed to deal competently with the Crown Heights riot.
That means to a large degree proving they can govern competently a test that the shaky, debate-canceling John McCain failed badly and paid a heavy price for in 2008.
With Katrina indelibly stamped on people's memories, the historian Michael Beschloss said, "the obvious downside is that if the executive branch fails to respond competently, the president will receive large blame".
Nor does Frank's analysis adequately explore the possibility that Republicans pay a political price when they fail to govern competently, even though that seems to explain the way elections have been going since 2006.
