Posted on 11/20/2008 10:25:52 AM PST by buccaneer81
A state agency director had no legitimate reasons to check state computer systems for confidential information on “Joe the Plumber,” according to a report released this afternoon by Ohio’s inspector general.
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Just a very ugly view of government oppression, intimidation and abuse of authority -— things to come.
Ohio ping!
Welcome to East Germany or what?
Shades of the Stazi..
This is a big story for us. This needs to be kept in the news and in the courts and pursued relentlessly by our side. Otherwise the Obama Admin will be working this as their regular M.O. without any fear of legal action.
Helen Jones-Kelley......HYPHENATED NAME ALERT!!..........
And the “discipline” the clerk faces is exactly what? A note in her HR file that will expire if she attends a Diversity class?
Thrown under the bus for following the orders of her supe. Next.
Dontcha hate it when THAT happens!
VI. REFERRAL A copy of this report will be provided to the Franklin County Prosecutors Office for review and consideration.
Alinsky says to combat an enemy, identify it, freeze it, personalize it, demonize it, give it a person's name- (It's Bush's Fault for example).
If someone today says on Free Republic, “Barack Hussain Obama is a murtad fitri”, they can't do to the poster what they did to Joe the Plumber.
As soon as “Joe” was identified they were all over him. The “volunteers” in media and government dug up stuff in two days that the man himself did not know.
The report reached no conclusion on whether Jones-Kelley's approval of the checks were politically motivated.
This statement is BEYOND even "Willful Disbelief"!
Even Helen Keller could see the political connection here.
This incredulous statement to the public the office of the Inspector General reminds me of that story of how the blind man went to the show and then came home and told the deaf man what he saw.
“Helen Jones-Kelley, the suspended director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services,”
SUSPENDED, WITH PAY!!!!!!!! At this point, she’s just on a paid vacation!
What would happen if this were done to Hispanics or Muslims or gays (insert other victim status here) thrust into the spotlight?
During the course of this investigation, we also received information that Director Jones-Kelley may have used state resources to engage in political activity. Jones-Kelley had asked Charles Huston, ODJFS network service technician, to synchronize her personal Blackberry with the ODJFS email system. As a result, all emails sent from her Blackberry went through the ODJFS email system. Among the emails that went through the ODJFS system were four in which Jones- Kelley provided lists of names of potential contributors to the Obama campaign. One of those emails included Jones-Kelleys offer of a $2,500 contribution to the campaign. On all four occasions the emails were either sent from, or received at, Jones-Kelleys state email address. This use of the ODJFS system violates the Governors policy on political activity and constitutes an inappropriate use of state resources. Consequently, we also find reasonable cause to believe that Jones-Kelley committed a wrongful act in this instance.
Remember how doggedly they worked to identify Buckhead and try to demonize him for being the first one to recognize the proportional fonts used in the Dan Rather memos National Guard memos.
Joe the Plumber needs to sue the pants off of Helen Jones-Kelley and the State of Ohio.
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