Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according to an e-mail she sent out this evening.
Doan was appointed in late May, 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as GSA Administrator. With 12,000 empioyees and a $20 billion annual budget, GSA has responsibilty for overseeing the thousands of building and properties owned by the federal government.
Doan became the subject of congressional scrutiny last year for allegedly using GSA to help Republican lawmakers win re-election. Doan denied the allegation, but her appearance before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was disastrous. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the panel, called on Doan to resign over the allegations, but Doan refused to do so. Read on…
Thanks to Doan, the past 22 months have been filled with more scandal than “accomplishments.” Doan first gained notoriety for using a January 2007 teleconference to “ask senior GSA officials to help ‘our candidates’ in the next elections.”
A blast from the past. Here is the video of Rep. Henry Waxman asking Doan to resign. And the video was Doan's trainwreck testimony to the committee.
2 comments:
She is no better than the rest of this administration that is why we need a good house cleaning next term.....and if McCain gets in a lot of this trash will stay on.
She was so funny when she was lying under oath. I guess the White House waited until see could find a job before their let her go. To bad they didn't do that for Gonzo.
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