Posted on 11/24/2009 5:54:55 PM PST by Kaslin
Oversight: After an unjust firing and campaign of character assassination, the former AmeriCorps inspector general has been cleared of acting improperly. Now where does he go to get his job and reputation back?
On June 10, Gerald Walpin was fired with one hour's notice as the watchdog of AmeriCorps in violation of a federal law requiring Congress to be given a heads-up 30 days in advance. He then fell victim to a campaign of character assassination.
When pressed for a reason for the sudden and improper dismissal of a federal watchdog, the White House responded with a letter to Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins, respectively the chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, from Norm Eisen, special counsel to President Obama.
The letter said Walpin's firing was at the unanimous request of the AmeriCorps board of directors. It described a May 20, 2009, board meeting where the 77-year-old Walpin "was confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions and exhibited behavior that led the board to question his capacity to serve."
Had this occurred in private industry, no doubt the administration's EEOC would have filed an age discrimination suit. Walpin was fully competent and a congressional hearing with Walpin testifying would have shown that. He wasn't guilty of exceeding his authority either. Something else was afoot.
It seems that Walpin did a very bad thing — his job. He followed the money and discovered that part of hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal AmeriCorps funds given to St. Hope Academy in Sacramento, Calif., had been misspent on questionable activities.
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I sure thought he was...
So, what is your point?
Now where does he go to get his reputation back?
Certainly doesn’t. I can’t imagine why I thought he was...
Ethics? We don’t need not steeenking ethics.
It’s all about ethics here. The democrats don’t have any, and don’t want to be held to account for any either.
After an unjust firing and campaign of character assassination, the former AmeriCorps inspector general has been cleared of acting improperly. Now where does he go to get his job and reputation back? On June 10, Gerald Walpin was fired with one hour's notice as the watchdog of AmeriCorps in violation of a federal law requiring Congress to be given a heads-up 30 days in advance. He then fell victim to a campaign of character assassination.
There was an article out on this this week already. Hidden within the article was this news about Walpin being in the clear. The MSM never headlined this fact.
“Walpin is an African-American, career government employee and a Democrat. “
don’t know about his being a democrat or career employee....but I thought he was an elderly white man
Looks like a white guy to me.
Thanks for that.
Worthy of note.
Walpin On August 3, 2006, President George W. Bush nominated Walpin as Inspector General (IG) of Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), an office in the CNCS charged with conducting independent and object audits, investigations and inspections of the CNCS and its service programs, which include AmeriCorps, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and Senior Corps.[3] After he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 9, 2006, Walpin was sworn in on January 8, 2007.
I saw him on Fox, I think it was....he is white, career gov’t service, and a democrat.
Guess he went the Michael Jackson route...
IIRC Beck had him on. He looked like an older white guy to me.
Between acorn and fort hood I forgot about this poor guy. :(
I did, too. There’s too darn much garbage happening and some of it involves good people like Gerald Walpin.
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