Wow: Ohio agency head who snooped on Joe the Plumber resigns
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Wow: Ohio agency head who snooped on Joe the Plumber resigns posted at 8:16 pm on December 17, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | Share on Facebook | printer-friendly Huh. Remember, she was given what we thought was a wrist-slap suspension for one month following the election. Not such a wrist slap after all, as it turns out: Not only is she out, two other managers involved in accessing Wurzelbacher’s records are gone, too. Ah well. Jobs come and go, but there’s only one One . Jones-Kelley was scheduled to return to work Monday ...
Helen Jones-Kelley “resigns” over Joe the Plumber attack.
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Scare quotes because I, like Allahpundit, don’t even remotely think that she had a choice in the matter.
Helen Jones-Kelley, the state official placed on unpaid leave for improperly accessing confidential information from state databases on “Joe the Plumber,” has resigned.
Two senior managers involved in the incident also are leaving, The Dispatch has learned..
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The administration last night fired Doug Thompson, the deputy director of child support who was scheduled to return to work ...
A Housecleaning in Ohio: Jones-Kelley and Two Underlings are Out.
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... behavior is reprehensible and I hope she never finds herself in another position where she can put her partisan politics over the privacy rights of any other human being. There are conflicting stories about the professional fates of the other two involved in improperly accessing Wurzelbacher’s records. The story I linked above says that Deputy Director of Child Support Doug Thompson got a four-week suspension on Friday and Assistant Director Fred Williams drew a two-week suspension. This story, however, says that Thompson was fired and Williams turned in his resignation ...


