The Patrick administration will name Stacey Monahan Saturday as interim commissioner of the state Department of Transitional Assistance, after Daniel J. Curley resigned under pressure this week.
Monahan, 40, has been chief of staff at the Executive Office of Health and Human Services since 2011 and has worked for Governor Deval Patrick in a variety of roles since 2005. She is a former executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party and a graduate of Boston College, according to the Patrick administration.
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So Curley has been Commissioner for 14 months and he gets the ax for problems that go back years? Talk about the old CYA.
Another example of incompetence by Patrick. We know about the hundreds killed and harmed by meningitis and thousands of criminals released by laboratory gate at the DPH and now we have same incompetence at the State's Dept of Human Services. What else is happening unknown to taxpayers in the other Depts?
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Ok... we'll do it again. Yesterday we asked why the Boston Glob hadn't reported the state welfare system screwups... so the new Human Services honcho dumps the welfare commissioner. And we get details on Mr. Cunha's views on the situation. But once again the Glob fails to lift its collective foot to expose another bit of welfare system idiocy. . . The Boston Herald reports that Gov. Deval the Deville Patrick cavalierly says the ex welfare commissioner was a 'good guy', and that the state's welfare screwups are nothing more than around the national average. Wonder how many of those national average illicit welfare recipients are members of Deval's innermost entourage - maybe the ones that don't qualify for jobs?
This paper (News omitted intentionally) does not want the liberals who read it to know just how bad the Democrats screw their mindless voters year and after year. This article was sugar coated compared to how the Hearld reported THE FACTS and the absolute waste of millions of dollars on fraudulent welfare recipients.
$43 million is more than most people would earn if they worked 20 lifetimes which is 800 years. And this state and it's crooked Democrats throw it down a sewer like it means nothing.
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Wait, there are 20,000 hack employees to administer programs for 50,000 residents on welfare. Why don't we just fire the entire staff, put half of their pay in the bank and use the rest to pay welfare benefits?
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redglare, you believe that? Each of these employees spends 4 hours a day tracking 1 welfare recipient? What do they do, play cards with them? How complicated is it to determine ... Ok, today do you have a job ?
Talk about burying the story! The Herald has been all over this for two days and finally, the Globe catches up. Hello Globe: you are not serving the needs of your Paying Readership by turning the newspaper into the MSNBC of local newprint. I understand that newpapers have always held advocacy positions and that for years, there has been steady ideology creep from the Editorial pages to the reporting side of the house but it has now reached the point of lunacy. Do you honestly believe that by not reporting a story, or soft selling it - the core issues - in this case - massive fraud and abuse in the state welfare programs - simply go away?
right from Howie Carr's radio noise ... you take good notes on Howie, CarlontheCape. what, you also watch Fox and follow Beck's bread crumbs, too ?
I loved this part ... Brown claimed the welfare recipient voter registration was politically motivated. No mention that at Demos it was Warren's daughter pushing the settlement. No mention that the state settled faster than any other state, and for a much more expensive resolution than any other state. When I need a laugh, I read the political coverage of the Onion and the Globe!
Yet another qualified appointment from Gov. Patrick. Cough, cough, hack, hack.
yup, yup ... good old welfare bashing ... and none of the knuckle-draggers notice that the conclusions were reached by "sampling" not an actual audit.
next thing, they'll be demanding Patrick's long form birth certificate and saying he is tied to Vince Foster, black helicopters and the Donation of Constantine fraud. no wonder the Republican party is in a downward spiral ... the same old targets for the same old bullies. reminds one of the old LP records which would endlessly repeat if scratched just right. and these folks are. HEY, what about that Scott Brown lying to Republican officials to get his pal in Thursday night on the ground he needed her help for his special election Senate run then Friday, he is out because he just needs to be a rainmaker at a law firm. what a steaming heap ...
This behavior only serves to undermine government’s credibility and the governor’s lofty rhetoric in support of tax increases. His cavalier response is troubling as well. It shows a disregard and lack of respect for the taxpayers (of all political stripes) who are being called upon to fund processes for which fiscal mismanagement is an accepted norm. In my opinion, supportors of a strong, enaged government should be the ones most angry with this behavior.