White House (Finally) Cans Lurita Doan

Photo from source, The Washington Independent

Here's an unusual story that may portend, as Rachel Maddow said today on her radio show, that another shoe is going to drop. Lurita Doan, General Services Administration Administrator, was in hot water with Congress nearly a year ago, for possibly violating The Hatch Act of 1939.

So why, one must wonder, was she told yesterday to immediately resign today? What is happening today? Or tomorrow? I'll keep my eyes and ears peeled--metaphorically of course--for the answer to that question.

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Why Is Doan Out?

The White House had any number of reasons to demand that General Services Administration Administrator Lurita Doan resign, which she did yesterday evening. Top of the list was probably when the independent Office of Special Counsel found last May that she was in violation of the Hatch Act, the law that's supposed to keep partisan politics out of the federal bureaucracy.

But it would appear that Doan is finished not merely because of political maneuvering that backfired. . .

Read more at: The Washington Independent