Coordinates resources from the U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs. The Department monitors resources flowing from the U. S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs to Ohio and consults with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on program development and implementation.So you're in charge of making sure Ohio's veterans obtain the funding they are due from the federal government, eh?
Well, perhaps the Governor should have paid closer attention to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Maybe then he could explain this front page article in the Columbus Dispatch:
I quote:Amazing. Yet another example of the Governor's ineptitude costing Ohioans. And not just any Ohioans, veterans who served proudly in our military.A state program intended to help disabled veterans re-enter the work force saw its funding slashed by more than $500,000 this year because state officials fell short of a federal requirement to hire and retain vocational counselors.
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The reduction means that Ohio - which has the nation's sixth-largest population of veterans - will continue to shortchange veterans with disabilities who are trying to transition back into civilian life, according to Terry L. Janke, a state official who had administered the program.
And yet, the malfeasance doesn't end there.
When Janke tried to repeatedly warn his superiors of the risk of losing the funding for veterans, the Governor found it necessary to demote him, despite a glowing record of performance.
Janke was demoted and saw his pay cut from $40 an hour to $26 on March 26, three days after he sent a "report of wrongdoing" to his superiors and three weeks after the U.S. Department of Labor informed his bosses that they were cutting the state's grant. Up to that point, Janke had been receiving favorable performance reviews, documents in his personnel file show.This is abuse of office, plain and simple. Can't Strickland's team accept criticism and consider recommendations without punishing the messenger?
Strickland has gone too far.
Again.
You're pathetic. John Kasich will have to totally eliminate programs like this under his tax plan.
ReplyDeleteAnd you personalize this as if Strickland personally made all these decisions which the article doesn't note.
Also, the article notes that Ohio should get the funding fully restored next year... that is unless John Kasich becomes Governor and starts slashing programs like this to pay for his income tax plan.
Seriously, Ted Strickland has always gotten stellar ratings from veterans groups while Kasich has not.
The story also notes that not a single veterans groups has complained or noted a lack of service as a result of this temporary loss of federal funding.
You're just a pathetic attack hack whose whistling past the graveyard that is that John Kasich has a poor record in Congress on veterans issues and will likely have to cut programs like this entirely to pay for his reckless tax plan.
Yeah! And John Kasich clubs baby seals with dead puppies!!!!
ReplyDeleteJohn Kasich doesn't do manual labor... unless you count playing golf.
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