It is in his best interest to take the heat off of his boss, before he finds himself removed from command over a seemingly trifling matter after the uproar dies down."
Bing-Go on all counts!
Maj. General Joseph E. TINKHAM II is indeed the AG of the ME NG., and reports to Gov. John BALDACCI, "D".
This report originally came from LtCol. J. MOSHER and Chaplain Maj. A. GIBSON, who seemed to be rather, shall we say, "concerned" about this and were speculating that the 30 some cases they were looking into might represent a fraction of actual incidents due to limited access of all NG Families to the Family Support Centers and speculation that many cases had not been reported.
The story hit WABI Bangor on Friday; shortly thereafter a couple of Bloggers landed on it, and it hit the FR forthwith.
I rather think that any such cases reported to School Administration were unlikely to get beyond the Office door, and would be officially forgotten about rather quickly.
By about the following Monday, LTC MOSHER and Chaplain GIBSON were conspicuous by their absence; Gen. TINKHAM and Education Kommizar J. Duke ALBANES were doing all the talking, and they did not seem to think that this was any big deal.
Surprise.
Has anyone seen or heard from MOSHER or GIBSON since? Hmmmm....
The Kommizar sent a Memo to all of the Schools, urging "Sensitivity"; this bureaucratic oblation was for the purging of all Public School sins, apparently, and we were all supposed to just go away, forgive, and forget that it ever happened.
We didn't.
Then it really rattled their cage when Rush and O'REILLY landed on it... heeheehee.
I have heard of the MEA's reputation here mentioned; very few Labor Unions these days can, with one phone call, have cold sweat running and knees a-knocking together all the way from Augusta to Washington DC, but I have little doubt that the MEA weilds that kind of power.
Much to our delight, it seems that neither Bill O'Reilly nor President BUSH are terribly intimidated by them; Bill let them have it pretty well at least once, and we hear that our CIC has had a little "Heart-To-Heart" chat with the Uppity-Ups of the ME Education Dept, in which it seems the Federal "Soldiers and Sailor's Act" was mentioned, along with a few really good reasons why rabid Komrade "teachers" don't EVER want to pull this bilge again.
I somehow doubt that the issue of "Sensitivity" was discussed at any length, but of course I have no way of knowing for sure.
The harder they try to suck this under their rug, the more it slithers out to bite them "aft".
I don't think that they made the most intelligent decision in attempting a cover-up, but only time will tell.
In the mean time check the "Maine Legislator Irked" thread; this is not over by a long shot.