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Rick Larsen fires three staffers over revealing tweets(LOL)
The Seattle Times ^
| December 8, 2011
| Kyung M. Song
Posted on 12/08/2011 3:08:28 PM PST by mdittmar
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:08:35 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
There's only one thing worse than people believing a lie about you. And that's people learning the truth about you.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:11:15 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
To: mdittmar
so he can read , oh wait, maybe someone told him
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:14:30 PM PST
by
molson209
To: mdittmar
Rick Larsen gives autographs to students at Utsalady School.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:15:14 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: mdittmar
Favorite story of the week.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:16:23 PM PST
by
Deb
(Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
To: mdittmar
“Idiot boss.”
LOL! I would say it’s not just the boss.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:17:43 PM PST
by
Brilliant
To: Brilliant
Still, "Idiot Boss", he finally builds a staff that knows what he's about so he fires them.
Does he imagine that will improve constituent services?
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:20:31 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: mdittmar
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:26:43 PM PST
by
I see my hands
(The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
To: mdittmar
Regardless of what you think about the "boss", these former aides learned a valuable lesson: you don't announce your indiscretions in the workplace to the world.
And you never, ever, criticize your boss in public unless you expect to be fired.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:27:55 PM PST
by
justlurking
(The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
To: Baynative
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:32:30 PM PST
by
The SISU kid
(I feel really homesick all the time & so do all the other aliens.....)
To: mdittmar
Larsen would have been ok with the three staffers screwing the pooch on the taxpayer’s dime, but telling the truth about his lack of intellect was the clincher.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:49:23 PM PST
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: mdittmar
Well, Rick Larsen is an idiot! I hope that Greg Anders, the son of Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, wins the seat next year. Anders would be an excellent choice for the 2nd District.
To: molson209
so he can read , oh wait, maybe someone told him
My mother worked on the Hill back in the late 1930s as a secretary to a committee. There was a congressman from Boston she knew who was completely illiterate. Ah, Rilla, he once said to her. It must be a marvelous thing to be able to read.
Seems that these are college kids that got their position through whom their parent knew. Instead of firing them, the congressman should fire his office manager and hire a competent one...better PR, any way.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:50:26 PM PST
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: mdittmar
They committed the ultimate Washington, DC gaffe: they told the truth.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:52:09 PM PST
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: sitetest
Kids say the darnedest things.
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posted on
12/08/2011 3:59:20 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
LOL. The young aides might have been stupid to Tweet such things, especially about their boss. However, now that they have been fired...imagine what they will be free to say about him. I am sure it will be more than just that he is an “idiot.” We might really hear some goodies from them. Can’t wait!
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posted on
12/08/2011 4:02:39 PM PST
by
CitizenM
(Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
To: Hiddigeigei
“Seems that these are college kids that got their position through whom their parent knew”
A survey of Capitol Hill staffers under 30 would likely reveal that 80-90% were hired as a result of family contacts. The pay is horrible, doesn’t even afford their living in DC, but it’s a resume piece that future employers will pay well for, regardless of how low level the job.
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posted on
12/08/2011 4:10:04 PM PST
by
EDINVA
To: mdittmar
There was a post titled “Don’t Be A Dick” further up the page. Too late for Rick. He is and he is.
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posted on
12/08/2011 4:10:29 PM PST
by
beelzepug
("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
To: mdittmar
In the years I was living in Shoreline, I got to know Rick Larsen in my work with passenger rail advocacy. Rick was a major liberal, but he was an honest liberal, and I came to respect him. I knew him on a first name basis and had lunch with him and Elizabeth Robbee in Everett -- it seems like a lifetime ago.
That Rick fired the slackers on his team doesn't surprise me. He struck me as that type. But I didn't expect Elizabeth to be one of them. She seemed to be really on the ball when I met her in Everett and the Mount Vernon Station dedication. But if she screwed up like that, she needed to go.
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posted on
12/08/2011 4:16:33 PM PST
by
Publius
To: Publius
"honest liberal"?
Guess those would be the ones who don't move to the right come reelection time;)
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posted on
12/08/2011 4:43:02 PM PST
by
mdittmar
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