Worker says 'Joe the Plumber' cover-up was forced upon her

Dispatch Politics ^ | 12/05/2008 | Catherine Candisky

[Big_Monkey]

Hopefully, Joe the Plumber will soon be bringing a civil case in this matter. It's time to get these Ohio dems under oath and on the record.

[xcamel]

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[Opinionated Blowhard]

This should be a big story—a state agency engineers a political hit job on an average citizen who embarrassed a candidate and then tried to cover it up. That should by dynamite. But we all know this will end up going nowhere.

[ComputerGuy]

Joe just might be able to buy that plumbing business after all.

[griswold3]

I wish I could be on that jury!

Uncle Teddy better watch his back.

[Dallas59]

Deputy Director Doug Thompson...thief and criminal. Get rid of him.

[BigBobber]

This is much bigger than a civil suit. Did someone in the Obama campaign or DNC ask for these record checks? They’re trying to screw the underlings without asking where the direction came from.

If Obama’s people were behind this they need to be uncovered.

[VOA]

guvmint worker victimology...bump

[Freee-dame]

someone who can be fired without cause."

How about fired with cause? That should have happened for at least two of them. I think it's called conspiracy, on top of illegal tampering of personal records.

[machogirl]

good for this lady, it takes guts in this day of msm worship of the messiah to stand up and do the right thing.

[WHBates]

"He then told me that we needed to make sure that we answer questions about what happened the same way, so that our versions were not different from each other. Before he said that, he reminded me that I was an unclassified employee -- which, as you may know, is someone who can be fired without cause."

For no other reason than this he should be fired, but possibly spend some time in jail.

[bray]

Merry Fitzmas, this goes all the way to the top! The Old Media will be on this just like Karl Rove.

Pray for W, America and Our Troops

[KarlInOhio]

"Within an hour, I took the rest of the day off -- again using my vacation time -- and went directly to the office of the inspector general. I told them everything I knew about what happened."

Good for her. What the boss did is obstruction of justice. He should not have been suspended without pay. He should have been fired, had his pension stripped from him and then prosecuted and jailed.

I'd be willing to bet that his instructions came from higher up and he was promised protection. I wouldn't be surprised to see that his missing pay is covered by an envelope full of cash dropped off at his house.

[Admin Moderator]

In the future, note the Activism sidebar is reserved for News/Activism of the FR chapters and not this.

[Big_Monkey]

Not that the Feds spend a lot of time publicizing these things, but I’m very surprised I haven’t read anywhere about a Federal civil rights investigation with respect to this matter.

I agree that jail time seems to be in order for at least two of the known conspirators - and by the testimony already given to the Ohio House committee, there does seem to have been a conspiracy, at least after-the-fact.

[Cicero]

Foodfight in the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services’ Office of Child Support. Go to it! Let it all hang out! I don’t expect the Justice Department or the FBI or the media to investigate this corruption any time soon.

[CindyDawg]

Too bad she is having to use her vacation time for this.

[Enchante]

Fire these ‘Rat scumbags and prosecute!!

OH, wait, they are Democrats, so the MSM will not press too far for prosecution and the OH Governor, prosecutors, etc. will ignore.....

[savedbygrace]

So who passed his private info to the news media?

[MrB]

These wannabe fascists need to have some PERSONAL consequences. Loss of job, loss of money, loss of freedom (jail time).