Posted on 02/23/2015 4:03:32 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate, may have landed herself in some trouble after it was reported her office did little to address the rather high rate of opiate prescriptions coming out of the Veterans Affairs center in Tomah, Wisconsin. As a result, Baldwin's office fired a top aide, offered her a severance package, and a confidentiality agreement. The aide, Marquette Baylor, rejected the deal and is filing a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Baldwin. At the same time, Baldwin's office had the Tomah VA report since last summer.
To make matters worse, three deaths are linked to the overmedication problem highlighted in the report on the facility. A congressional hearing is scheduled on the matter (via AP):
A congressional hearing prompted by three deaths and reports of overmedication at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tomah will be held locally, officials said Thursday.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who said last month she accepts responsibility for not acting sooner, is now being advised by a Democratic political lawyer, and the Republican Party of Wisconsin has filed an ethics complaint against her related to how her office handled the matter.
Several members of Congress had asked for a hearing into allegations of overprescribed medication at the medical center as well as retaliatory practices against employees who spoke about it. The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs, Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida, said the hearing will be in Tomah. But the date and details have not yet been set.
The center, which came under scrutiny last month when former employees and the families of former patients alleged that doctors overprescribed narcotics, is already under investigation by the VA’s Office of the Inspector General . . .
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I don’t think thats the issue here.
My read is that her office had a report that, in hindsight, she should have released. Instead she sat on it, and now that it looks like she engaged in a coverup (or at least a callous disregard for what happened) she tossed a sacrificial staffer under the bus.
The staffer isn’t just taking the hush money, the hit to reputation and quietly walking away, but standing and fighting.
So no exec vs legislative branch conflict.
But, but Johnny Boner made a “tough” speech, Witch McConnell is busy “crushing the Tea Party,” you know they will jump on this “tomorrow.” They won’t? Who knew? Oh, now I remember, Congress critters circle the wagons and protect their “graft!”
The homosexual “community” is like lowfat milk: less than 2%.
It is the height of arrogance and stupidity to think that the vast population should cringe and scrape to the hysterical demands of a statistically insignificant fringe.
Because they cannot be trusted to conduct their own investigation honestly.
There is an IG that is supposed to ensure impartial and fair investigations but they are corrupt and in cover-up mode. I experienced gawd-awful ‘care’ from a VA hospital and tried to take it up with the hospital (too include the director). She would not acknowledge the formal complaint nor would she accept the hand-delivered letter describing in detail the abuses and life-threatening treatment.
The VA IG was contacted and they, imagine this, send the IG complaint to the hospital administrator to investigate herself.
Odd. . .she found the charges of mis-management, improper and abusive ‘care,’ and systemic leadership failures to be groundless. (Full story here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2685965/posts?page=11#11)
“and what authority does a Senator have to take any kind of action?”
The Senate is empowered by the Constitution to exercise over-sight of Executive Branch agencies. This is done to ensure the monies spent are being spent properly and in accordance with law. Power of the purse is where Congress can hold the Executive Branch agencies accountable.
“Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate,”
“Marquette Baylor, rejected the deal and is filing a sexual discrimination lawsuit against Baldwin.”
“U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who said last month she accepts responsibility”
“Republican Party of Wisconsin has filed an ethics complaint against her”
Three people are dead because the people of Wus-con-sin elected
a perverted moron (democrat) with a mental disorder (homo) to the
senate. It is as much their fault as it is hers.
Oh this ought to be a GOOD one to watch, then!
In this corner, wearing the rainbow Spandex, the lesbian sitting Senator-For-Life!
In the other corner, wearing the Obama stickers and her $300 high-tops she got from the Ferguson riots, the black-female-Obamabot-who-just-got-played!
Let’s get ready to RRRRRRUMMMMBBBLLLLLLEEE!!
Great Americans died on foreign soil for this?
R.I.P.
Homophobia will be her defense.
Let’s see here...
Leftist;
Homosexual;
Female;
Senator-For-Life;
She’ll walk.
See her photo below:
http://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2012/312/adf199e2-3138-4c79-a2f2-41fb1ff463d6.jpg
Its not so much the 2-3% but its the 20-30% that think their behavior is normal and cool.
Maybe not. You see, Obama has this bus...
oh no not a dimorat....how could that be?
Yep. the VA Inspector General office is a joke. They don’t acknowledge receipt of a complaint. Their own website says that they’ll pick and choose what they will investigate. A complete waste of taxpayer money.
If they can prove that Sen. Baldwin over prescribed Oxycontin to Vets, she will go to prison.
Brad, I believe you’ve nailed it.
Rotflmao.Post of the day IMHO.
Hmmmm. She’s not half the man her mother was.
Rotflmao.Post of the day IMHO.
Brad, I believe you’ve nailed it.
LOL!!!
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