Even more sickness from the sicko left
[h=2]Union Official Says She Let Veterans Die Because She Didn’t Want To Talk To Republicans[/h]
Miss CJ March 10, 2016 12:25pm
Where do you even BEGIN with this??
According to the Daily Caller, a former federal employee union president named Germaine Clarno has come forward admitting that she knew about misconduct happening within the Department of Veteran Affairs right around the time the VA scandal hit. But Clarno – a lifelong Democrat – says she never said anything to leaders in Congress because they were Republicans.
Yup. You read that right. Dealing with Republicans was more abhorrent to this woman than allowing veterans to die because they couldn’t get medical care at a VA hospital. What, does she think she’s going to get Republican cooties or something?
From the article –
“If I would’ve gone to him two years ago, who knows what kind of lives could’ve been saved,” Germaine Clarno told a radio interviewer Monday, referring to the Republican leader of a VA subcommittee. Clarno, a lifelong Democrat and social worker at the Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital in Hines, Ill., was president of the union representing doctors at the hospital as the deadly wait-time scandal unfolded.
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Clarno’s tale of haunting regret is at least the second case of people connected with VA unions admitting they did not speak up about life-and-death issues because the idea of talking to a Republican was too distasteful.
Sen. Mark Kirk was the ranking Republican on the Senate VA Appropriations subcommittee when Clarno finally talked to him in 2013, and wielding the power of the purse, he immediately launched a crusade to expose wrong-doing at Hines.
But in the previous years, Clarno went instead to Democrats who were ill-positioned to do anything, and who indeed, did nothing. Clarno and Lisa Nee, a VA doctor she worked with, described their actions during the interview Monday with Illinois’ WLS-AM radio host John Howell:
HOWELL: Both [Sen. Dick] Durbin and [Rep. Tammy] Duckworth put out a statement last week, as did our junior senator Mark Kirk, who I know has been helpful to you, right doctor?
NEE: Yes. And I didn’t think he would be. He was the last resort.
HOWELL: And usually when a union has to go to Republicans it’s a frosty reception, I suppose.
CLARNO: Exactly. And if I would’ve gone to him two years ago, who knows what kind of lives could’ve been saved.
HOWELL: That’s a really sad aspect of this.
CLARNO: It is.
The good news (if there can be any) is that Clarno regrets her action/inaction and she is admitting that she put political partisanship over the well-being of veterans. Which is the most patently ridiculous thing ever. If there’s ANYTHING that both Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on, it’s that our military veterans get the best medical care possible. So, when it turns out that a Democrat is so beholden to her own party that she won’t even speak to Republicans who can help her and these veterans – there is something INSANELY wrong.
The next time we get a lecture from liberals about how Republicans need to be bipartisan and “reach across the aisle” and work together and just roll over so Democrats can do whatever the heck they want, remember how well this particular Democrat reached over and asked Republicans for help.
It goes both ways, kids.