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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
On Friday a report was issued by two Republican Senators contending that the Obama White House was politically motivated when it fired inspector general Gerald Walpin after his 2008 investigation of Kevin Johnson, now Sacramento's mayor. The report by Senators Issa and Grassley criticizes the White House ethics counsel, for not examining what Walpin had been investigating at the time of his dismissal,...
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taxmanblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
This should have congressional investigation written all over it. Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday...
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politickybitch (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
every time I open a medical bill at how much the insurance companies are screwing people with no insurance. The only thing I heard Darrell Issa say at that town hall meeting that made sense to me was that people who do not have insurance should pay the same amount that people who DO have insurance pay. When I took the 8 hour drive that opened up an already slowly healing incision site and ended up...
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DCist (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Photo by David Clow - Maryland A congressional report issued yesterday by two ranking Republicans suggests that schools chancellor Michelle Rhee performed "damage control" for her now-fiance Kevin Johnson during investigations into Johnson's alleged sexual misconduct and misuse of Americorps funds at the St. Hope charter school he founded in Sacramento. Johnson, an ex-NBA player, is currently...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Mayor Kevin Johnson is back in the spotlight with the release of a GOP report investigating the firing of the man who conducted the St. HOPE probe. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson allegedly offered to pay a young woman $1,000 a month after she accused him of touching her inappropriately two years ago, according to a congressional report released Friday. The accusation is contained in a 62-page report...
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The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
How's this for ethics? Obama seems to know how to take care of his friends : A GOP congressional report accuses the White House of doing favors for Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, a former NBA star and prominent ally of President Barack Obama. The report was spearheaded by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking...
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Yesterday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-12 to pass the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal government workers. Next step: the full House, where it is expected to pass, then the Senate and then the President's desk. All of the "yes" votes were from Democrats and all of the "no"...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Guest post from Mattie Duppler with the Center for Fiscal AccountabilityIn response to Rep. Darrell Issa's request for information on recovery.gov, Earl Devaney, head of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency...
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PardonMyFrench (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney was responding to a request for information by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In a letter to Issa dated Nov. 17, Devaney wrote, “Your...
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The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Over the last couple of weeks, the media and the blogosphere has dissected the numbers coming from Recovery.gov and found them laughably phony. The pièce de resistance came when Watchdog.org noticed that the government-run accountability website appeared not to know that the US has only 435 Congressional districts, instead of the 875 listed on the website — but listed almost $6.4 billion...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Bad day for Recovery.gov. First, Earl Devaney, the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, had to inform Rep. Darrell Issa that "the board can’t vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding." Now, Ed Pound, director of communications for Recovery.gov, has stepped in it too. When asked to explain the phenomenon of stimulus-related job creation...
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Jonathan Karl from ABC News reports, "Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state...
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Hyscience (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This is laughably rich. Earl Devaney, the man in charge at Recovery.org, says he can't back up the numbers coming from Recovery.gov. In a response to Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Devaney says that he cannot certify any of the jobs data published by the government. Can't blame Devaney though. After all, how does one go about certifying numbers from the fake formulation of jobs "created or saved"...
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P/Oed Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A ccording to an Article on ABCNEWS, the President's Job claim numbers created by the 'Stimulus' have just ran into another roadblock. The Chairman of the recovery.Gov Website, the Website that is Tracking the Jobs created by the Stimulus, has admitted that he can not certify the accuracy of the Job Claims posted on his own site. A Republican Representative from California posed some questions that...
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A moment with (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Shocker! The White House cannot certify the numbers of jobs in the data posted on the recovery.gov website. Earl Devaney, the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, responded to questions posed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., late yesterday...
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