[AndrewC]

I want to see the emails. Until then all I see is someone who clearly did not do the work necessary to get tenure and then pulled the ID card when denied it.

Here,Public document requests under Iowa’s Open Records Act obtained correspondence of key faculty members within ISU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.

And here is the work aspect.

If you want to do your own research for the raw numbers go here http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

and put in the names of the individuals. Here are the results for a search from that site covering the period that Gonzalez was at ISU

Selected and retrieved 44 abstracts. Total normalized citations: 42
Stephen D. Kawaler Full Professor (Current Program Coordinator), Tenured Astronomer in ISU Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.

Selected and retrieved 78 abstracts. Total normalized citations: 210
Guillermo Gonzalez.

[antiRepublicrat]

Look at the trends that can show what kind of performance to expect from the tenure applicant:

The trend says "Don't expect much more from this guy, he did his best work before he got here." And notice how few he was first author for during his stay at ISU.