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Posted on Apr 30, 2008
Doan Resigns
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Lurita Alexis Doan, outgoing head of the General Services Administration, leaves behind a legacy of corruption and other abuses of political power ...  just like the rest of the Bush administration.

It’s the end of an era for the friends of General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan, who resigned from her post Tuesday following years of allegations of corruption and other inappropriate uses of power. Doan’s reign over the government’s chief contracting agency was riddled with contract handouts and examples of using her appointed position for political (read Republican) purposes.


The Washington Post:

At the request of the White House, General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan resigned last night as head of the government’s premier contracting agency, ending a tumultuous tenure in which she was accused of trying to award work to a friend and misusing her authority for political ends.

“It has been a great privilege to serve our nation and a great President,” Doan said in a statement released this morning by the agency.

Doan’s resignation came almost a year after Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he believed Doan could no longer be effective because of the allegations about her leadership.

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By cyrena, April 30 at 7:34 pm #

Humm,

It may be late, but if not for Henry Waxman, she’d probably still be heisting until the very last escape ship leaves the dock..

TDoff, excellent observation, and you’re right...we’ve seen that for nearly 8 years...most of ‘em come from Pat Robertson’s Liberty University, or some other repuglican institution. (Nearly the whole Justice Dept. is staffed with these women from Liberty Univ.)

Anyway, thanks again to our Henry Waxman and his team. They stick with it, even when the rest of us are completely unaware…

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By DennisD, April 30 at 2:05 pm #
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Only in America can you work for the government, lobbyists and corporations at the same time and be paid by all of them for the same job.

Unfortunately the “patronage gravy train” never stops running, it just changes names from time to time.

I’d be smiling too if I had her three pensions to look forward to.

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By don knutsen, April 30 at 1:56 pm #
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Another Bushie Bimbo, is it just me, or does it seem as though this administration has gone out of its way to appoint alot of “Young-Republican” women to head numerous agencies, usually without much if any experience. The qualifications seem to always begin and end with loyalty to the emporer above all else. If we had a functioning justice dept. she along with so many of her cohorts would undoubtledly be investigated and indicted...but sadly, there is no accountability in these times. And if anyone is to be held accountable its some underling far down the food chain from where the marching orders came from.

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By TDoff, April 30 at 1:52 pm #

Christ, what’s the republican party coming to?

Even their women are whores!

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By Margaret Currey, April 30 at 12:24 pm #
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What is new soon the entire Republician party will be going to the back door.

Even if McCain were elected president the congress would be Democractic.

How many rats will leave the sinking ship when Obama or Clinton win the nomination.

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By tyler, April 30 at 11:13 am #
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so many people ‘stepping down’.  the looting is done, its time for all the cronies to get the hell outa there!

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