A federal employee union president is wracked with regret because veterans likely died at a time when she knew about gross misconduct within her Department of Veterans Affairs facility but didn’t tell congressional leaders because they were Republicans. http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/10/u...veterans-die-rather-than-talk-to-republicans/ "Dozens of veterans have died in recent years while waiting for appointments with doctors at multiple VA hospitals and care centers around the nation. But VA staffers systematically manipulated records to make it seem like they didn’t have long waits. The problems became so severe by 2013, that as many as 40 patients died at just the Phoenix facility. The same practices took place at Hines, with the knowledge of its director. Additional problems also plagued Hines, like heart scans getting discarded without being read. Sen. [crscore]Mark Kirk[/crscore] was the ranking Republican on the Senate VA Appropriations subcommittee when Clarno finally talked to him in 2013, and wielding the power of the purse, he immediately launched a crusade to expose wrong-doing at Hines. But in the previous years, Clarno went instead to Democrats who were ill-positioned to do anything, and who indeed, did nothing.Clarno and Lisa Nee, a VA doctor she worked with, described their actions during the interview Monday with Illinois’ WLS-AM radio host John Howell. Clarno’s tale of haunting regret is at least the second case of people connected with VA unions admitting they did not speak up about life-and-death issues because the idea of talking to a Republican was too distasteful." The article makes the case that the Dems since they were new or not on the right committee could do nothing. Do we really think Tammy Duckworth a disabled veteran who had worked at the VA could have done nothing?? BS and shameful and this "A similar situation unfolded in Wisconsin, the site of VA’s Tomah hospital — known as “Candy Land” because its doctors doped up veterans with dangerous combinations of sedatives rather than treating their underlying conditions. The Tomah VA employees union didn’t take complaints to Sen. [crscore]Ron Johnson[/crscore], a Republican, even though he is not only from Wisconsin, but is chairman of the Senate Oversight Committee with jurisdiction over management issues in government agencies. “We didn’t even talk to Republicans then,” Lin Ellinghuysen, union president and past vice president, told the Wisconsin Watchdog. But there is no remorse in Wisconsin. The union is now running ads against Johnson, faulting him for not acting on information he was never given. The public employees union is campaigning for Russ Feingold, a Democrat who preceded Johnson in office and is now running to retake the seat. The union initially said it told Feingold of problems at the facility via a hand-delivered letter in 2009, when he still occupied the Senate seat. But after the absence of any corrective action by Feingold became a campaign issue, the union retracted its claim, and said it never told him. Democrat [crscore]Tammy Baldwin[/crscore], the state’s other senator, received an investigation report detailing problems at the Tomah facility, but nothing came of it. Baldwin admitted that it was a major failing, and fired the staffer she said was responsible. Ellinghuysen said the union talked with Democrats about the problems, but she didn’t follow up when they didn’t get results because she is no “courageous Wonder Woman” and “needed a paycheck.” Ryan Honl, a lifelong Democrat who worked at Tomah, reluctantly went to Johnson’s office, and got a response the next day after being frustrated with a lack of response from Baldwin and another Democrat, Rep. [crscore]Ron Kind[/crscore]. Then, after Republicans did the work of proving undeniable mistreatment, the Democratic members belatedly chimed in with expressions of outrage at the mistreatment of vets — just as Durbin and Duckworth did in Illinois — Honl told The Daily Caller News Foundation." WTF kind of people are Dems?
Dem politicians are greedy, power hungry, incompetent sacks of **** for the most part. You'll find an occasional one that has a shred of decency deep inside them.
Too bad there weren't any "decent" ones who might have been willing to go to a Republican politician to get this exposed sooner. That ***** will have that on her conscience for the rest of her life. I hope she never has a good night's sleep. She and so many others put politics ahead of Veteran's lives. Brave people who did not ask political affiliation when they volunteered to defend our country.She and others betrayed them all for politics. Who is that evil?
