"Lurita Doan bitch smacks Henry Waxman"

"Please Show you're support for Lurita Doan"

Henry Waxman you are messing with the wrong
women, Lurita Doan was brilliant in her testimony
before his committee yesterday. The Democrats were
gunning for her but she threw back punches never
seen on capital hill.




“I find that when an African-American is a Republican, somehow, she is treated differently by Congress.”

Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT)

Bush elected Miss Doan to became the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration on May 31, 2006, the first woman to hold that position, within a few short months the liberal Washington Post on January 2007, reported two controversies one saying Doan intervened in an effort to determine whether five major contractors should be suspended from doing business with the federal government after they had been accused
of making fraudulent claims."[5]



On March 26, 2007 the liberal Washington Post reported, in a front page story yet another controversy:


Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove's political affairs office at the White House joined in a video conference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees, who discussed ways to help Republican candidates. With GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan and up to 40 regional administrators on hand, J. Scott Jennings, the White House's deputy director of political affairs, gave a PowerPoint presentation on Jan. 26 [2007] of polling data about the 2006 elections.



When Jennings concluded his presentation to the GSA political appointees, Doan allegedly asked them how they could "help 'our candidates' in the next elections," according to a March 6 letter to Doan from Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.





Waxman said in the letter that one method suggested was using 'targeted public events, such as the opening of federal facilities around the country.'....The committee is also expected to question Doan about her attempt to give a no-bid job to a friend and professional associate last summer. In addition, the committee plans to look at Waxman's charge that Doan "intervened" in a troubled technology contract with Sun Microsystems that could cost taxpayers millions more than necessary. In the Senate, Doan is facing a similar line of questioning in letters from Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).



On May 24, 2007, the liberal Washington Post reported, "The United States Office of Special Counsel has found that General Services Administration chief Lurita Alexis Doan violated the federal Hatch Act when she allegedly asked GSA political appointees during a January briefing how they could 'help our candidates' win the next election, according to a report by the office." In their 19 page report, Special Counsel investigators wrote, "[Doan's] actions, to be certain, constitute an obvious misuse of her official authority and were made for the purpose of affecting the result of an election." The report went on, "One can imagine no greater violation of the Hatch Act than to invoke the machinery of an agency, with all its contracts and buildings, in the service of a partisan campaign to retake Congress and the Governors' mansions." Doan said she fundamentally disagrees with the findings.





My View

I watched the hearings yesterday and she is one tough cookie.
This may be another reason why they hate her she punched back
and hard. The democrats were firingshots and they were bouncing
off her like rubber bullets.I think that she is will stay the president
needs a fighter on his staff and she is one. She has been great for the
agency which she was appointed and I doubt this will be the end.
If Bush lets her go and can not see that this is a targeted attack
on this women he has reall lost it.This is a perfect case of Democrats
targeting someone using the Washington Post as its sheild.
I wonder how this supposes investigation got off foot.

How did the Post overhear such a conversation?

Who told the Post?

Maybe a Post employer a turn coat Republican (and there are a few)
overheard something while stuffing there fat face with cheese and crackers.
For a group that opposses the Patriot Act zoomingin on terrioist conversation
they have no problem with zooming in on a Republican asking a two second question.
I have no idea if she said this or not but this smells like a setup.



It does not appear that Bush is going to ask for her to resign. We shall see.


Blog support for "Lurita Doan"



Hatip from RedState blog .."General Services Administrator Lurita Doan testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday morning, finally getting her chance to face Chairman Henry Waxman (D.-Calif.) about the "allegations of misconduct" he's ginned up in the press.Doan has put together a comprehensive defense -- her opening statement totals more than 6,000 words -- and has said for weeks she welcomes the opportunity to set the record straight. Having met Doan earlier this month, I think Waxman will have his hands full this morning. This woman means business.



From Townhall

Rep. Henry Waxman’s first order of business as the new chairman of the Government Reform Committee was to add the word “oversight” to the committee’s moniker. It was his subtle way of telling the Bush Administration it could expect a steady stream of investigations into just about every imaginable aspect of its operations.







From the American Spectator blog



It is now clear that GSA Administrator Lurita Doan, about whom I have blogged several times previously, will not surrender her good name without a fight. Democratic hit-man Rep. Henry Waxman and the Washington Post news pages have teamed up with the GSA Inspector General and controversial U.S. Special Counsel Scott Bloch to trash Ms. Doan on a number of fronts, several of which have been shown to be unfair attacks already. The big one at issue now is the charge that Ms. Doan violated the Hatch Act by supposedly asking, at a White House-led, voluntary, brown-bag lunch meeting for administration political appointees in her agency, "how we can help our candidates." In a preliminary report on his investigation that was unfairly (and seemingly maliciously) leaked (Doan apparently believes the leak was by Bloch and/or his designees) to four news organizations either simultaneously or even BEFORE the preliminary report was given to Doan for her response, Bloch concludes that Doan did indeed violate the Hatch Act. But Doan will reply later today or tomorrow in a way that forcefully rebuts that preliminary conclusion.


More on this later today, but for now, consider these elements of the controversy. First, even if Doan DID say such a thing (she says she does not remember doing so and that she does not believe she did), WHAT WAS THE SIN? There is no charge that she actually directed the GSA to award contracts based on electoral considerations -- and indeed, as this meeting took place in January of this year, a full 22 months before the next federal elections, there is little possibility that any candidates could even have been identified yet, much less arranged to be helped. If this was a meeting of political appointees and Ms. Doan asked the White House person a political question unrelated to any official action on her part, WHAT IS THE HARM? There is no evidence that she pressured any of the GSA employees to take part in ANY political activity.
Second, Ms. Doan has long claimed that she was not even paying much attention at the meeting because she was spending the time handling a backlog of e-mails on her Blackberry.





The Post reported that investigators concluded that this wasn't true, because her Blackberry records do not show heavy incoming or outgoing traffic. She now notes, though, that those same records show a backlog of more than 250 e-mails in her inbox at the time, caused in part by a documented problem with the GSA's email system that the GSA technicians had been working on. Futhermore, she says that she provided the Special Counsel GSA documentation that proves that an e-mail with an attachment was sent by her during the meeting. Moreover, it was just before that meeting that Waxman's fishing expedition (on an earlier matter) had produced a big document request from Doan, and two e-mails from her personal attorney relating to just that topic had arrived just before the meeting in question. Wouldn't YOU, Dear Reader, have been distracted at the meeting if you had just received such e-mails?


As I said, I'll have more on this later. Doan's official response has not yet been completed. But while the Post articles on Doan certainly SEEM to provide compelling evidence that she committed various acts of fairly minor wrongdoing, Doan promises that those articles are misleading and that she will show that she has nothing to be ashamed of.


Considering that a couple of the earlier charges against her were demonstrably bogus, Ms. Doan deserves the benefit of the doubt until and unless her responses to the allegations have themselves been shown to be untenable. For now, fair-minded people ought to withhold judgment -- and support Ms. Doan against the underhanded procedural (leaks, etc.) tactics being used against her.