Mark Espy, Democrat candidate in Mississippi, has a dark secret that could destroy his campaign. The Free Beacon reports:
As secretary of agriculture, Mike Espy fought to block the promotion of a department employee because his young daughter’s preexisting heart condition was believed to be a potential financial burden on the government, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.
Espy, now running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, was confirmed to head the Department of Agriculture in January 1993 during the Clinton administration. It was after Espy took office that James Patterson, an agricultural economist for the department, says he learned that his promotion to the Foreign Agriculture Service, a department within USDA, was being stalled even though he had passed all the required tests with flying colors.
The reason for the USDA’s decision was Patterson’s daughter, who was born in 1989 and immediately went into surgery for congenital heart disease.
“My problems began at the Agriculture Department when Mike Espy came in January 1993,” Patterson, now retired from the department, explained in an interview. “I was in the Foreign Service there at the time, and he decided he would demote me based on my daughter’s disability.”
Coming from a Democrat who touts his “pro people” credentials, this is a devastating truth.
You mean he’s a hypocritical Demoncrap that says one thing and then does another? I’m shocked.
‘Xacly – as if anyone should trust a bureaucrat with healthcare responsibility or judgement. Unfortunately the Statute of limitations is out on that one. perhaps we should eliminate the statute of limitations for actions committed by government employees since it’s clear that it takes forever for the people who got screwed over to come forward or for the abuses to see the light of day.
Hopefully people are getting less afraid to speak up when things actually happen.
Federal government employees should be constrained by the same consequences as military personnel – if you committed a serious enough crime while in the military and get discharged before the crime was discovered or you became a suspect, you CAN be recalled to active duty for trial and punishment. More relevant, they can can lose their pay, benefits and retirement for crimes committed while in actual service — government employee’s have no skin in the game.