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Originally Posted by RangerDick
I would just like to take this opporunity to say "POTUS" and "SCOTUS". They're just so much fun. It's a cool thing. Oh, one more....... "JOTSCOTUS." Dude, I feel awesome now.
Ten points for anyone who can guess what this one means, "HIACJWDNKWTFHITA".
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I find it ironic that the TLC director, Lewitt, was hired by the Miers' led Commission, from a field of 700 applicants. Miers was charged by Bush with finding the best candidate for a SCOTUS appointment, just as Cheney was in 2000, to find the best candidate for VP to run on the Bush slate. in both cases, the best candidate turned out to be the person in charge of the search. Do you think that they selected themselves in a competition of 700?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story...425737,00.html
The Texas lottery was opened up for bids, and a Gtech competitor was designated as having the best offer. Transfer from Gtech was subject only to review and negotiations. Then - surprise! - Bush's lottery commission dumped its new director, dropped the apparent winning bidder, and the head of the state Lottery Commission, Harriett Miers, announced it was best simply to stick with Gtech. Linda Cloud, executive director, said it offered the best deal.
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http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/7...t/HC00153I.HTM
<b>(12)</b> in June 1997, Mr. Littwin was hired from approximately 700 applicants to replace Ms. Linares as executive director;
<b>(13)</b> Harriet Miers, chair of the Texas Lottery Commission, said of Mr. Littwin, "his extensive business, technical and lottery experience, his knowledge of lottery products offered by vendors, and his knowledge of the procurement process will be of great benefit . . . . He is a man of integrity who will further develop and maintain strict controls at the commission and insure operations that are above reproach";....................
........<b>(15)</b> when Mr. Littwin first began his new position, the state auditor provided Mr. Littwin with a highly critical review of the Texas Lottery Commission, GTech Corporation, and the relationship between the two;
<b>(16)</b> the state auditor warned Mr. Littwin that GTech Corporation had not provided complete and timely responses to the state auditor's request for information and denied the state auditor access to information concerning its contracting practices;.............
......<b>(18)</b> Mr. Littwin also instructed staff members to review the GTech Corporation contract to determine whether GTech Corporation had complied with all of the contract obligations;
<b>(19)</b> from the staff members' preliminary investigation, it appeared that GTech Corporation had seriously violated the contract and that the violations gave rise to millions of dollars in liquidated damages;
<b>(20)</b> Mr. Littwin made the Texas Lottery Commission aware of these issues;
<b>(21)</b> Mr. Littwin continued a previously initiated investigation into, among other things, alleged unlawful campaign contributions made by GTech Corporation, through various subterfuges, in violation of the contract;
<b>(22)</b> ultimately, Mr. Littwin was instructed by Harriet Miers, John Hill, and Anthony Sadberry, members of the Texas
Lottery Commission, to stop the investigation;
<b>(23)</b> the investigation was never completed;
<b>(24)</b> the Texas Lottery Commission did not take any action and to the best of Mr. Littwin's information and belief, GTech Corporation has never been forced to cure these breaches or pay these penalties;
<b>(25)</b> Mr. Littwin was terminated on October 29, 1997, only five months after Mr. Littwin had been hired; the commission members did not provide a reason for his dismissal other than to say they had "lost confidence" in him;
<b>(27)</b> Mr. Littwin's personnel files list the reason for his termination as "reasons unknown" and none of the commission members would explain what that actually meant;
<b>(27)</b> Mr. Littwin's personnel files list the reason for his termination as "reasons unknown" and none of the commission members would explain what that actually meant;
<b>(28)</b> following Mr. Littwin's dismissal, Linda Cloud was named executive director of the commission;
<b>(29)</b> Ms. Cloud quietly canceled the request for proposal, leaving the contract with GTech Corporation despite the fact that GTech Corporation was not the successful bidder;
<b>(30)</b> the audit of GTech Corporation that Mr. Littwin contracted for was never performed;
<b>(31)</b> the Texas Lottery Commission never forced GTech Corporation to pay the liquidated damages under the contract;
<b>(32)</b> the investigation of illegal contributions to state officials has never been completed;
<b>(33)</b> a report prepared and completed by Mr. Littwin discussing material problems with the Texas Lottery commission was never disclosed to the public; and
<b>(34)</b> Mr. Littwin's termination did not come as a
result of poor job performance, but rather, his attempts to uphold the laws of the state and eradicate inappropriate activities by the Texas Lottery Commission and GTech Corporation; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That Lawrence Littwin is granted permission to sue the State of Texas and Texas Lottery Commission subject to Chapter 107, Civil Practice and Remedies Code; and, be it further.......
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http://www.newsherald.com/business/fc122997.htm
Monday, December 29, 1997
Citing the added bonus of providing continuity important to the agency and the state of Texas, Panama City native Linda Avirett Cloud was promoted by the Texas Lottery Commission to fill the vacant executive director's chair.
"Linda Cloud has been with this agency since 1992," said Commission Chair Harriet Miers. "And the conclusion was she was the best, with the support of the staff, to move the agency forward." Cloud, who lives in Austin, will be paid an annual salary of $100,000.
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http://www.txlottery.org/info/milestones.cfm
May 4 [1995]
Governor George W. Bush appoints Dallas attorney Harriet Miers to the Texas Lottery Commission. Ms. Miers is a former President of the Texas Bar Association and Dallas City Council member.
December 16 [1997]
In a unanimous vote, the three-member Lottery Commission officially names
Acting Executive Director Linda Cloud as the Lottery's Executive Director.
March 21 [2000]
After nearly five years at the helm of the three-member Lottery Commission, Chairwoman Harriet Miers resigns. Governor George W. Bush names C. Tom Clowe originally appointed in November of 1998, to head the Commission.
Bush also appoints Dallas attorney Betsy Whitaker to assume Miers'unexpired term.
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http://www.lottoreport.com/GreerResigns.htm
Littman's successor, Linda Cloud, resigned in 2002 after acknowledging that she had lied to a Star-Telegram reporter about the circumstances surrounding the investigation of a
sexual harassment complaint made against one of the lottery commissioners.
A former politician who saw his lack of lottery experience as an asset, Mr. Greer had been in the post for just less than two and a half years. He was tapped for the$110,000-a-year job after the commission changed the qualifications, allowing someone without a college degree to assume the position.
At the time, Mr. Greer, a Bexar County GOP operative, had lost a re-election campaign for county clerk, and Gov. Rick Perry reportedly championed him for the lottery job.
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In the "real" world, Miers would not be nominated for a SCOTUS seat, and Bush would not be POTUS, and RangerDick would not be allowed to post contentless taunts. Miers appointed Lewitt to direct TLC, apparently fired him when he promoted the interest of the people of Texas, after lauding him just 5 months earlier, then buried his investigation and audit of the TLC's prime vendor, Gtech, which the TLC paid $137 million per year, and had neverf auditted. She appointed a successor to Lewitt, who later lied about a sexual harassment complaint against a TLC commissioner, and was forced to resign. The word "judge" is in the word "judgment".
With Miers' track record of 5 years as TLC chief, and then agreeing to follow Bush to the white house, and playing her part as Al Gonzalez's assisant, as he drafter the "torture memos" (Miers introduced Gonzalez to Bush....), Miers has demonstrated incompetence, a penchant for acting against the public interest, ignorance or contempt for the Bill of Rights, and poor judgment. She shows herself to be a crony and a hack. |