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(Obama's) GSA Chief Resigns Over Outlandish Spending
National Review Online ^ | 04/02/12 | Daniel Foster

Posted on 04/02/2012 1:50:52 PM PDT by TonyInOhio

General Services Administration head Martha Johnson has resigned along with two of her deputies, reportedly over an impending inspector general’s report detailing lavish spending on a Vegas conference for a handful of government employees:

Organizers spent $835,000 on the event, which was attended by 300 employees. The expenses included $147,000 in airfare and lodging at the hotel for six planning trips by a team of organizers. Among the other expenses were $3,200 for a mind reader; $6,300 on commemorative coin set displayed in velvet boxes and $75,000 on a training exercise to build a bicycle.

“When the White House was informed of the Inspector General’s findings we acted quickly to determine who was responsible for such a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars,” White House Chief of State Jack Lew said in a statement to The Washington Post. President Obama “was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors, and disregard for taxpayer dollars,” Lew said, “and called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable.”

The GSA is basically the federal government’s office managers, providing things like office space, desks, and cars to other agencies. One of its charges is to develop cost-saving administrative strategies. . . .


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; corruption; democrats; fraud; grifters; gsa; marthajohnson; obama; obamasminions
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To: Paratrooper

An idea what her husband does?

Gargle with antifreeze every morning and pray for death?


41 posted on 04/02/2012 4:37:15 PM PDT by txhurl (Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
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To: Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness

Excellent!!


42 posted on 04/02/2012 4:44:03 PM PDT by Paratrooper
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To: GlockThe Vote
Obama: don’t blow your cash in Vegas

He was following his own advice. He wasn't blowing his money he was blowing our money!

43 posted on 04/02/2012 4:52:17 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: TonyInOhio
...over an impending inspector general’s report detailing lavish spending on a Vegas conference for a handful of government employees...

The NEW YORK TIMES will NOT be interested in this story.

44 posted on 04/02/2012 5:16:53 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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To: TonyInOhio

$6300 on a commemorative coin set? And I’ll bet you it was pennies.


45 posted on 04/02/2012 5:30:53 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: TonyInOhio

$3200 for a mind reader? I didn’t realize Ann Coulter worked so cheap.


46 posted on 04/02/2012 5:32:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: NEMDF

I think your right, the articles will follow the segment about the untouched photos of 17 year old Trayvon that the MSM misplaced.


47 posted on 04/02/2012 5:54:45 PM PDT by BilLies (Ass.Press ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hate your Traditional American guts!)
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To: TonyInOhio

Libs haven’t a problem spending, spending, spending OPM to their hearts content as they will rationalize some of the most outrageous scenarios as to why they must.

As I’ve posted in the past on several occasions the Libs are the last ones we want hovering over the government counting house. They are nuts! It’s our money, and we had better be wise with it. Never vote Democrat.


48 posted on 04/02/2012 7:35:10 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: GreyFriar
Oh come on, resigning because of spending a measely $835,000! That is just “BUDGET DUST.”

Heh! Good quote.

49 posted on 04/02/2012 7:47:10 PM PDT by zot
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To: hattend

>> She’ll just be replaced by another career bureaucrat <<

She was a political appointee, not a career bureaucrat.

(Not sure, however, which is worse!)


50 posted on 04/02/2012 7:56:30 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: TonyInOhio

Trust me, he’s laughing...


51 posted on 04/02/2012 8:16:37 PM PDT by standingfirm (in God we trust)
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To: txhurl

LOLLLLLING! It’s gotta be Ethylene though to Really do the job!


52 posted on 04/02/2012 8:42:37 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: kcvl

I had no idea Edith Bunker would steal from the taxpayers like that.


53 posted on 04/02/2012 8:56:23 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (Islam...Imperialism in a turban.)
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To: TonyInOhio

President Obama “was outraged by the excessive spending, questionable dealings with contractors, and disregard for taxpayer dollars,” Lew said, “and called for all those responsible to be held fully accountable.”

Biggest bunch of crap I have ever read. There is no way he REALLY cares.


54 posted on 04/02/2012 10:01:42 PM PDT by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: freeangel

“BTW, she keeps her pension. “ This is theft and fraud. Why is she not in jail?

Not really. People do this all the time. The ONLY reason it is such a problem is because the press grabbed it and ran with it. These conventions go on all the time in every part of government. These costs are less than one day in Iraq by the way. Let’s keep things in perspective.


55 posted on 04/02/2012 10:04:07 PM PDT by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: TonyInOhio

She’s white too, I think.


56 posted on 04/02/2012 10:49:44 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama is afraid if he needs to start a fight with Catholics. He's losing the women vote!!!)
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To: napscoordinator
so tragic that Johnson will have to retire in exile to Marthas Vinyard and King Obama will get to appoint the embezzler of his choice

just tragic

57 posted on 04/02/2012 11:10:33 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Graewoulf
Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack continues to grow louder : -— regulate -— control -— destroy -— Regulate -— control -— destroy -— REgulate -— control -— destroy -— REGulate -— control -— destroy -— REGU

And I have resigned myself to the very real possibility Baby-Doc Baraq will be handed his second term after a tough slog against the best the GOP could come up with - mittens.

Never lose sight of the fact almost 50% of American residents pay no Fed income tax and are enjoying a nice ride in the Baraq wagon - they will not disappoint.
58 posted on 04/02/2012 11:23:34 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: TonyInOhio
If only she had flown to Spain with 40 of her closest friends, or gone on a "school field trip" to Mexico accompanied by 25 Secret Service agents, she'd have kept her job.

Or, my favorite, take separate jets to Martha's Vineyard.

59 posted on 04/02/2012 11:54:03 PM PDT by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: wiggen

“Will she have to pay some back? Like maybe the cost of the mind reader?”

You’d think somebody would have seen this coming.


60 posted on 04/02/2012 11:56:56 PM PDT by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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