The Gravy Train Stops Here

Posted on Apr 30, 2008

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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.

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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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