Sen. Tammy Baldwin ousts aide over VA controversy--but Sen Johnson office contacted also

[riversedge]

This is sad. But I think this is another witchhunt by Republicans.

**I did not know till now that Sen. Ron Johnson's office had been contacted also. Has anyone seen anything form Johnson staff?




Sen. Tammy Baldwin ousts aide over VA controversy


Members of Congress have called for an investigation into allegations of rampant overmedication, retaliatory management practices and preventable overdose deaths at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah.


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Members of Congress have called for an investigation into allegations of rampant overmedication, retaliatory management practices and preventable overdose deaths at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah.


Jan. 26, 2015




Under fire for her office's inaction over alleged overmedication at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah, U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin abruptly ousted one of her top state staffers late last week.

Marquette Baylor — deputy state director for Baldwin and chief of her Milwaukee office — was let go on Thursday without explanation. Baylor has been offered a cash payout as part of a severance package if the former aide agrees to keep her lips zipped.

"It looks like they're trying to pin the blame on her," a source said of Baylor's dismissal by Baldwin...............


Honl noted that he also reached out to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican, and U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, a Democrat, but got little response until the media picked up on the issue in early January.

Since then, he said, federal lawmakers have been very responsive to his concerns.

"They were caught with their pants down," Honl said.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Aw, Jeez--I use Tomah.

Interesting.

I wonder what Tammi's aide is being bought off on.

[dembotoz]

2. over medication is bad but i think i would prefer it to under medication

mom died last sept in hospice setting.
last couple of days she was unresponsive.
if she seemed restless we requested medication

so i think she was pretty snowed towards the end.
remember the scene from tears of endearment where the mother
had to beg for pain medication for her dying daughter.

when my wife was dying years ago--kinda around the movie time..... i kept
a watchful eye on things so that her suffering was kept to a minimum.

i think i would rather be snowed if the other option was pain.