BernieHund: The Political Watchdog

The email read:

“Dear Friends and Colleagues at GSA,

Early this evening I was asked to submit my resignation, and I have just done so. It has been a great privilege to serve with all of you and to serve our nation and a great President.

The past twenty-two months have been filled with accomplishments: together, we have regained our clean audit opinion, restored fiscal discipline, re-tooled our ability to respond to emergencies, rekindled entrepreneurial energies, reduced bureaucratic barriers to small companies to get a GSA Schedule, ignited a building boom at our nation’s ports of entries, boldly led the nation in an aggressive telework initiative, and improved employee morale so that we were selected as one of the best places to work in the Federal government.

These accomplishments are made even more enjoyable by the fact that there were lots of people who told us they could never be done.

Best of luck to all of you, it has been a true honor.”

Months have passed since Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) suggested to Ms. Doan that she resign during her Congressional testimony.  At last, she has been asked to resign… told to resign… by someone in the Republican administration.

Apparently, during her brief stint as head of GSA, the “I can’t remember”, “I don’t know if I was there” Ms. Doan spent time and taxpayer dollars supporting the Republican party candidates in various elections on the job and in required staff meetings.

During her Congressional testimony, it was brought out that staff meetings were held showing how the department staff should go about helping the election or re-election of Republican candidates.  One representative even held up meeting notes and print-outs outlining the ”how-to”.  Well, Waxman called upon Doan to offer her resignation during the hearings.  Months have passed and apparently amid growing criticism Ms. Doan has been asked to resign and did so last night.

Perhaps, it is time to add Lurita Doan to the list of Bush-Cheney embarrassments.  “Good job, Doanie!”