You always have to be wary about complaints from fired employees, but the accusations in the complaint are very specific and there is a lot of documentation.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former state director for U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has filed an ethics complaint against the Wisconsin Democrat saying Baldwin placed blame about problems at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center on her.
Marquette Baylor, who was fired in January, in the complaint filed Monday said Baldwin used her as a scapegoat in the office’s mishandling of reports of overprescribing of narcotics and retaliatory behavior at the hospital.
Baldwin in February said Baylor was terminated due to long term performance issues that weren’t exclusive to her dealing with concerns about the hospital. Baldwin later admitted responsibility for her staff’s mishandling of reports.
Typical liberal Marxist. No ethics. No morality. No decency.
Baldwin should resign and be charged with criminal complicity in the Tomah VA deaths.
Typical thoughtful and restrained response from Kevin.
Dave,
Still a much better response than the sufferng I endured at the hands of liberal radical students and radical liberal marxist academia at UW-Milwaukee.
Definitely a more restrained response than what Democrat John Chisolm does to those that dare to utter conservative free speech. Pre dawn gun raids is not part of the 1st amendment.
So thank you. I am much more restrained than typical liberal tyrants.
“Suffering” at UW-Milwaukee? Were you jailed? Were you threatened? Were you assaulted? What, exactly, did these radical students and professors do to you?
When I attended UW-Madison 30 years ago, I used to joke about leftists determined to eradicate racism in all its subtle and nonexistent forms. I lived to tell about it and the became amused to see conservatives copy the exact simpering woe-is-me victimology that would put 80s campus liberals to shame.
Anyone who expresses their viewpoints exposes himself or herself to ridicule, and I’ve been ridiculed for things I’ve written and said. It comes with the territory. If that’s the definition of “suffering,” then Kevin, you and I are living very charmed lives.
Pike’s Questions:
“Suffering” at UW-Milwaukee? Were you jailed?
IF BEING CALLED, SUMMONED AS MANDATORY, INTO RADICAL LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES, ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASSION, TO BE “DISCIPLINED” FOR CONSERVATIVE SPEECH….ABSOLUTELY YES! I WAS, LATER, OFFICIALLY PUNISHED AFTER A SERIOUS OF KANGAROO MARXIST FACULTY MEMBERS (THE APPEALS COURT FOR UW) WITH 2 SEMEMSTERS NON-ACADEMIC PROBATION FOR SIMPLE SPEECH PRINTED IN AN EDITORIAL. IT WAS NOT SO MUCH THE FUINAL SPEECH PUNISHMENT METERED OUT BY HATEFUL LIBERALS, IT WAS THE ABUSIVE PROCESS THAT IRKED ME THE MOST. IF CAMPUS LIBERALS WERE TRESTED TO SAME SPEECH STANDARD, WE WOULD BE EXPELING LIBERAL STUDENTS IN DROVES.
Were you threatened?
YES. I WAS THREATENED WITH RANGE OF DISCIPLINE FROM EXPULSION, TO SUSPENSION, TO NON-ACADEMIC PROBATION. I WAS THREATENED BY LIBERAL STUDENTS ON MANY OCCASSIONS TO BACK OFF WHEN IT CAME TO THE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL POSITION ON THE PRECIOUS LIBERAL ISSUE DU JOUR ON THE CAMPUS AT THE TIME.
Were you assaulted?
VERBALLY. BOTH BY STUDENTS AND ADMINISTRATION. TO THE POINT WHERE I HAD TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN FREE SPEECH LAWYERS FROM A WELL KNOWN NATIONAL CONSERVATIVE ORGANIZATION SPECIALIZING IN COUNTERING LIBERAL CAMPUS HATE.
What, exactly, did these radical students and professors do to you?
IT WAS ALMOST AKIN TO WHAT HAPPEN TO THOSE IN THE CHISOLM JOHN DOE INVESTIGATION, ONLY A UW CAMPUS VERSION. I LEARNED A VALUABLE LESSON THROUGH IT ALL: LIBERALS ARE NOT COMPASSION. LIBERALS HATE. THEY ESPECIALLY HATE FREE SPEECH AND WANT TO CRUSH IT AT ALL COSTS.
So anything I say is very, very, restrained, compared to liberals in operation that have power and abuse it.
Here’s that 1st answer again without the typos.
IF BEING CALLED, SUMMONED AS MANDATORY, INTO RADICAL LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES, ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASSION, TO BE “DISCIPLINED” FOR CONSERVATIVE SPEECH….ABSOLUTELY YES! I WAS, LATER, OFFICIALLY PUNISHED AFTER A SERIOUS OF KANGAROO MARXIST FACULTY MEMBERS (THE APPEALS COURT FOR UW) WITH 2 SEMESTERS NON-ACADEMIC PROBATION FOR SIMPLE SPEECH PRINTED IN AN EDITORIAL. IT WAS NOT SO MUCH THE FINAL SPEECH PUNISHMENT METERED OUT BY HATEFUL LIBERALS, IT WAS THE ABUSIVE PROCESS THAT IRKED ME THE MOST. IF CAMPUS LIBERALS WERE TREATED TO SAME SPEECH STANDARD, WE WOULD BE EXPELING LIBERAL STUDENTS IN DROVES.
Since it’s written in all caps, I’m sure it must be completely true.
And given your calm, rational and objective demeanor, I’m absolutely certain you brought none of this on yourself.
As to the main topic, Baldwin is an idiot for the way she handled this. Insisting on a confidentially clause in a separation agreement screams PLEASE INVESTIGATE ME.
Pike,
Actually, it was the opposite problem. (Only all cap’d to distinguish from your question.)
I took too calm and objective demeanor, at the time, taking on the evil of liberalism in action. Had I taken a more “passionate” approach, I think the oppressive liberals would have been beaten back sooner, without any free speech punishment. I may not have avoided the evil, liberal, free speech tribunals at UW-Milwaukee, where speech content is reviewed in violation of first amendment, but I certainly would have avoided any punishment had I lawyered up sooner. (Which is the shame…that one need lawyers to be protected from liberal speech censors.)
I don’t make that mistake twice.
Had Baldwin been subjected to the same speech scrutiny I suffered at UW-Milwaukee, the administration at UW would have had her expelled and canceled all her prior academic credits by comparison.
Its a good thing to expose the naked, ugliness, of liberalism in action, wherever it occurs. Baldwin has provided yet another fine example of how ugly liberalism can be, on multiple levels!
Dave was the one that got all contorted with my concise analysis of Baldwin’s actions….which you now seem to agree with.
No, I don’t agree with your analysis, which was a screed. I don’t believe Baldwin should face criminal prosecution. I think she should pay a political price for her panicky incompetence and throwing an employee under the bus. Three cheers to the liberal media for making Baldwin’s political life appropriately miserable.
By the way, Ron Johnson didn’t ace the Tomah VA exam either. If Baldwin gets an F, Johnson gets a D+.
Pike,
VA is government run Marxist health care.
Baldwin embraces government run health care no matter how destructive, how long the line, no matter what the aweful quality. Johnson does not.
That is the difference in morality here.
Health care is too important to rely on government to deliver .
For the most part the VA is a self governing branch of the military and for the most part run by military personnel. So am I hearing Kevin correctly when he calls our military health care system run by military men and women Marxist. Very un-republican of you Kevin and by the sound of it you have turned your back on our vets as much as Baldwin and Johnson. Either support the only system (VA) our vets have or give a viable solution that will work better. It must get exhausting jumping on every band wagon. Being constantly critical well offering no solutions makes you nothing more then a cry baby. I advocate for change and will never let myself become the victim of any political party.
“VA is government run Marxist health care.”
OK Kevin and Medicare is the same? And every other representative democracy that provides universal health care is a Marxist scam? And what do you, Kevin, propose to do for those veterans, elderly or millions of other citizens in need of health care? What’s your solution? Leave it in God’s hands?! You, sir, are a complaining piece of work with no practical suggestions to address real societal problems.
Dave,
I have a relative who is taken care of by VA. I use the “taken care of” term loosely.
We have pets in our society that get better care.
You might genuinely make me upset if you tell me VA is acceptable health care. That would make you part of the problem.
He would be better off in private system and government pays.