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State employee says she was ordered to check out Joe the Plumber
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | October 31, 2008 | Randy Ludlow

Posted on 10/31/2008 5:48:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81

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To: buccaneer81
It's NOT the crime.
It's THE cover up.

21 posted on 10/31/2008 6:00:07 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
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To: buccaneer81
Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are "thrust into the public spotlight," amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.

This is a lie.

22 posted on 10/31/2008 6:00:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandchildren in the eyes when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: buccaneer81

What is it with bureaucrats? Just check your brains and spines at the door?


23 posted on 10/31/2008 6:00:21 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: buccaneer81

They are already using the “just following orders” excuse used by nazis, Bolsheiviks, Pol Pot’s goons, ChiComs Cultural Revolution, and other thugs who tried to excuse their genocide. God help us if Obama wins - but he won’t.


24 posted on 10/31/2008 6:00:52 PM PDT by Frantzie
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To: caffe

sticklands dirty hands are all over this. I can smell it. Possible impeachable offense if enough people sing.


25 posted on 10/31/2008 6:01:16 PM PDT by mwl8787
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To: mwl8787
sticklands dirty hands are all over this.

At the very least, he's in on the cover-up.

26 posted on 10/31/2008 6:02:45 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: bigbob
I’m inclined to believe them. If it could be proven they were leaking confidential information to the press, that would be one thing. But this sounds plausible.

Most of the stuff in his confidential records was immediate leaked to the press, because the press immediately went public with it. One of the leakers has already been connected to a reporter.

Where else did the press get it?

It also fits the clear pattern of the Obama campaign. Anyone who criticizes Obama in any way, or makes him look bad, or doesn't bow down low enough, is immediately attacked.

27 posted on 10/31/2008 6:02:55 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Doctor Raoul
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Watergate.

Paging the 'Rats: Obama's making Tricky Dickie look like a piker.

28 posted on 10/31/2008 6:02:56 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: airborne
Either she did or didn't...Following orders is no excuse.


29 posted on 10/31/2008 6:03:08 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: mewzilla

Why isn’t there a paper trail for these requests? A written request when someone wants a check run<<

The agency probably has lots of legitimate checks to run, at the request of the parties, at the request of public welfare offices and courts in Ohio and elsewhere, at the request of employers. Current laws on child support require wage attachments, even before the payor has demonstrated irresponsibility.

There should definitely be a record at least as to the general reason for the request and who made it.


30 posted on 10/31/2008 6:03:41 PM PDT by I_Like_Spam
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To: buccaneer81
"she is unfamiliar with the practice of checking on the newly famous."

It's part of the coming "change", dearee.

31 posted on 10/31/2008 6:04:41 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Palin for President! (RINOs? PUMA))
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To: darkwing104
Either she did or didn't...Following orders is no excuse.

Yep. At my job, if following orders means violating procedure, then you are toast. Of course in state government...

32 posted on 10/31/2008 6:05:22 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

Right, why wasn’t this explained at the beginning?


33 posted on 10/31/2008 6:07:42 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Is ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a Bill Ayers Weather Underground Associate)
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To: buccaneer81
Director Helen Jones-Kelley said her agency checks people who are "thrust into the public spotlight," amid suggestions they may have come into money, to see if they owe support or are receiving undeserved public assistance.

Friend of mine once lost his wallet in Moscow, reported it to the police, and became the subject of an investigation.

34 posted on 10/31/2008 6:11:19 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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**Current laws on child support require wage attachments, even before the payor has demonstrated irresponsibility.**

NY Child support wanted $60/week from me for child support... “WHAT CHILD?” Who is the Mother of this Alleged CHILD? THEY WOULDN’T TELL ME!! They just wanted a check.. before I hung up, I stopped laughing, asked the guy on the phone “Has she narrowed it down to 8 Potentials yet?? then I hung up!
Child support program is Exactly what OBAMA REGIME going to be like.
PAY FIRST, ask questions later... so Niekamp may have done exactly what her job description and UNION RULES require her to do... so I’m giving her credit for coming forward at first smell of a coverup!


35 posted on 10/31/2008 6:12:22 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (HITLER offered Hope and Change!!)
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Uh, I would think one aspect of her job is to check up on deadbeats. She was just told Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher needed to be checked, and thought nothing of it, just do her job.

It’s only later that she realised who it was. Because it was only later that she found out who he was.

There is a time for following orders, and other times, no. She wasn’t asked to light up ovens and whatnots. She did her job as per normal. Albeit it was weird why her bosses were so enthusiastic about some randon Joseph guy.

So, can the idiotic comparisons.


36 posted on 10/31/2008 6:13:05 PM PDT by apollo861 (I am so gonna swallow your soul.)
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To: buccaneer81
Interesting, the Columbus Dispatch can figure out that Vanessa Niekamp, the designated patsy, is a Republican, but can't tell if those (Carrie Brown, Helen Jones-Kelley, and Doug Thompson) ordering her to lie to cover for them, are DemoRats.

I could take a guess.

37 posted on 10/31/2008 6:14:00 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (The beauty of conservatism, Sarah Palin.)
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To: buccaneer81

Ohio Dept of Jobs and Family Services mission and values:

* Mission: To help Ohioans improve the quality of their lives.

* Values: Accountability Compassion Integrity Respect Teamwork

http://odjfsperformancecenter.ohio.gov/pdf/strategicplan.pdf

What a joke!


38 posted on 10/31/2008 6:15:51 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie
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To: mewzilla

**Why isn’t there a paper trail for these requests?**

Not a stupid questsion, but we are talking about a government run by DEMOCRATS. From that you can expect just about ANYTHING!

If you’ve ever lived under SINGLE PARTY RULE, they do whatever they want, because they CAN! Question any govt agency you will get the JOE THE PLUMBER Treatment.


39 posted on 10/31/2008 6:16:00 PM PDT by gwilhelm56 (HITLER offered Hope and Change!!)
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To: buccaneer81
Democrat Gov. Ted Strickland and Jones-Kelley, both supporters of Democrat Barack Obama, have denied political motives in checking on Wurzelbacher.

Yet Strickland will not order any type of investigation, or say it should not have happened. Strickland is a co-conspirator.

40 posted on 10/31/2008 6:16:23 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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