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OH bureaucrat and Obama supporter who plundered Joe the Plumber’s privacy records under false pretense quits

Karma can be a real female dog sometimes, can’t it?  Here’s a warning, though: the following is a bit of revisionist bovine feces.  Observe:

Helen Jones-Kelley, the state official placed on unpaid leave for improperly accessing confidential information from state databases on “Joe the Plumber,” has resigned.

Two senior managers at the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services who were involved in the incident also are being ousted, The Dispatch has learned.

Jones-Kelley, the agency’s director, had been scheduled to return to work Monday following a one-month suspension without pay.

In a four-paragraph statement, she said, “it is with sadness and clarity that I have decided to resign…This decision comes after having a time of pause, in which I realize that I continue to be used as a political postscript, providing a distraction from urgent state priorities.

“My professional career, and the legacy of service I have established, has been, and continues to be, far too important for me to allow my reputation and my commitment as a servant leader to be disparaged. I also remain concerned for the safety of my family and myself.”

Gov. Ted Strickland suspended Jones-Kelley last month after a report by Inspector General Thomas P. Charles found that checks into the background of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher that were approved by Jones-Kelley were not conducted for any legitimate governmental purpose.

Someone dial “9-wah-wahhhhhhhhhh! and get a Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhh-mbulence on the scene, pronto!

Just so I’m clear on the goings-on here:

Joe the Plumber asks a question that could have brought some discomfort to The One.  Jones-Kelly, who just so happened to have supported Uhhh-bama, just so happened to decide to snoop through JtP’s records because he had become an overnight celebrity and it was routine to snoop on overnight celebrities.  When it was revealed by pretty much everyone in OH government that such a “new celebrity” clause doesn’t exist as justification of a state employee to go dumpster diving on a citizen, it became clear that Jones-Kelly (did I mention that she just so happened to have supported the subject of JtP’s less-than-fawning question?) had abused her power and had tried to get others to lie about it in order to cover it up.  When that didn’t quite work out the way she envisioned it and was rightly criticized for her shameful (and possibly illegal) activity, she kicked off the Mother of All Pity Parties and resigned in a snit.

I guess it’s out fault that we made her snoop on someone’s records.  We must be racist.  Or something.

December 19, 2008 Posted by | corruption, Obama, privacy | 4 Comments

A Second Amendment feelgood story

Woman gets attacked by rapist.  Same rapist sleazeball returns days later for an encore.  Said rapist winds up taking the eternal celestial dirt nap.  Details from Mizzou:

An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to rape her a second time, police said.

The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he broke through her locked basement door.

The woman told police he was the same man who raped her several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek charges against her.

In the first incident, the woman heard glass breaking in her basement about midnight on Saturday. She went to leave the house, and the man attacked when she opened the front door. He punched her in the face and then forced her into a bedroom, where he raped her, said H. Morley Swingle, prosecuting attorney in Cape Girardeau County.

The victim reported the crime to police, and her landlord repaired the broken window.

She was home alone again Friday about 2:15 a.m. when Preyer broke the same basement window. The victim was awake watching television, when Preyer switched off the electricity to her house.

She tried to call 911, but couldn’t because the power was off. She got a shotgun and waited as the man began banging on the basement door. She fired when Preyer came crashing through the door. When Preyer collapsed, the woman escaped and went to a neighbor’s home, where she called police. Officers, who arrived within a minute, found a bleeding Preyer stumbling away from the house. He was taken to St. Francis Medical Center, where he died several hours later.

Swingle said the victim identified Preyer as the attacker in both incidents. Preyer, of Jackson, Mo., had wet caulking from the recently repaired basement window on his clothing when he was shot.

“I will not be filing any sort of charge against this 57-year-old woman, who was clearly justified under the law in shooting this intruder in her home,” Swingle said.

Try telling this lady that “having a gun won’t make you any safer”, m’kay?

Exit question (albeit somewhat rhetorical): Did you know that if Ted Kennedrunk had it his way, she would have been raped again (and possibly killed)?

December 19, 2008 Posted by | gun rights | 6 Comments

Want to boycott UAW-made products?

Here’s the list.  I, for one, will not be rewarding an organization that succeeded in destroying American companies and now has the unmitigated gall to ask for a multi-billion dollar subsidized bailout.

December 19, 2008 Posted by | economic ignorance, unions | 7 Comments

   

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