The Mystery of the Missing Aides
Follow this. The governor orders the press spokesman (Debbie Crane) at the Department of Health and Human Resources fired. But tells his press office to say her boss, Dempsey Benton, was the one who made the decision to fire her. Because she’s dishonest.
Secretary Benton then tells the press the only reason he fired Crane was because he was ordered to by the governor’s office. And adds, that she’s honest.
The governor’s press office then says
Then the governor’s chief of staff, undercutting the press office, says
Things are out of hand. They get worse.
Ms. Crane tells the press that two of the governor’s aides, Sherri Johnson and Renee Hoffman, ordered her to destroy emails (apparently about the Mental Health Care Crisis) so the press wouldn’t see them.
The governor aides, Johnson and Hoffman, promptly vanish. Their assistant, poor Seth Effron, gets rolled out onto the end of the limb to deny it all.
The press makes short work of Seth.
Then the governor has his legal council conduct a five minute investigation into the missing emails. The legal council promptly announces there is “absolutely no evidence” Johnson and Hoffman ordered them destroyed. The press, incredulously, says: ‘So you’re telling us you asked Johnson and Hoffman if they destroyed emails and they deny it?’
Long pause. Followed by a stream of mumbo-jumbo. Finally, the lawyer says, ‘You’d have to ask Johnson and Hoffman.’
Who have vanished. So the press can’t ask them.
In the meantime the Governor says he ‘vigorously’ opposed the Health Care Plan all along. And his former Health and Human services chief – who said the plan was wonderful in 2001 – vanishes.
Finally, the governor tells the press he had no idea the state’s Health Care Plan had resulted in $400 million wasted tax dollars, a long list of abused patients and 82 avoidable deaths – until he read it in the News and Observer. But consider this: Surely, sometime, somehow, during the last seven years, someone with an abused child in a state mental healthcare ward wrote the governor to complain. So, how could he not even have had an inkling something was wrong?
The Easley Administration is in melt-down in front of our eyes.
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The Mystery of the Missing Aides
Follow this. The governor orders the press spokesman (Debbie Crane) at the Department of Health and Human Resources fired. But tells his press office to say her boss, Dempsey Benton, was the one who made the decision to fire her. Because she’s dishonest.
Secretary Benton then tells the press the only reason he fired Crane was because he was ordered to by the governor’s office. And adds, that she’s honest.
The governor’s press office then says
Then the governor’s chief of staff, undercutting the press office, says
Things are out of hand. They get worse.
Ms. Crane tells the press that two of the governor’s aides, Sherri Johnson and Renee Hoffman, ordered her to destroy emails (apparently about the Mental Health Care Crisis) so the press wouldn’t see them.
The governor aides, Johnson and Hoffman, promptly vanish. Their assistant, poor Seth Effron, gets rolled out onto the end of the limb to deny it all.
The press makes short work of Seth.
Then the governor has his legal council conduct a five minute investigation into the missing emails. The legal council promptly announces there is “absolutely no evidence” Johnson and Hoffman ordered them destroyed. The press, incredulously, says: ‘So you’re telling us you asked Johnson and Hoffman if they destroyed emails and they deny it?’
Long pause. Followed by a stream of mumbo-jumbo. Finally, the lawyer says, ‘You’d have to ask Johnson and Hoffman.’
Who have vanished. So the press can’t ask them.
In the meantime the Governor says he ‘vigorously’ opposed the Health Care Plan all along. And his former Health and Human services chief – who said the plan was wonderful in 2001 – vanishes.
Finally, the governor tells the press he had no idea the state’s Health Care Plan had resulted in $400 million wasted tax dollars, a long list of abused patients and 82 avoidable deaths – until he read it in the News and Observer. But consider this: Surely, sometime, somehow, during the last seven years, someone with an abused child in a state mental healthcare ward wrote the governor to complain. So, how could he not even have had an inkling something was wrong?
The Easley Administration is in melt-down in front of our eyes.
Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other articles.