DHHS hires Teabagger McCrookie donor at $95,000/yr

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The state Department of Health and Human Services has filled a newly created $95,000 senior planner position with a Greenville woman who was a medical school lecturer for three years but who has been absent from the health care labor force since 2002.

Margaret “Mardy” Peal, 42, has been hired as part of the “Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina,” Gov. Pat McCrory’s initiative to allow private insurance companies to run the government’s health care program for the poor in North Carolina.

Peal gave $1,250 to the McCrory campaign in 2012. She helped organize the Eastern North Carolina Tea Party in 2010.

The job was not posted, which prevented others from applying. Department officials declined to provide a job description or list Peal’s duties.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/17/3204175/dhhs-hires-mccrory-donor-for-95000.html

They're out of control.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. GOPee Goal: Send NC back to the 1800's. Literally.

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2. WRAL jumps in re: Tea Party/anti-abortion/private school activist...

McCrory donor, former ECU lecturer to advise DHHS leader

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Peal was also listed in 2010 under her married name, Grubb, as a member of the board of directors for the anti-abortion Carolina Pregnancy Center, which provides "abortion alternatives, post abortion support and abstinence education with the hope of transforming lives through Jesus Christ," according to its Facebook page.

The hire comes as the agency prepares to rewrite state rules governing access to abortion and grapple with massive Medicaid shortfalls. It also follows weeks of headlines about highly-paid staffers and contractors at the top of DHHS.

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"The first [mission] is to recruit a community of informed, involved and inspired citizens," Peal told radio hosts Tom Lamprecht and Sadie Klaus on April 29, 2010. "Then, we want to rebuild the free-market system through the tenets of limited government, and we want to restore the United States to the principles of its founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."

Although she was briefly listed as a member of the group's "leadership team" on its website, Eastern N.C. Tea Party founder and director Karen Kozel said Peal attended only a few early "brainstorming" meetings and appeared as a visiting speaker at a gathering in 2010.

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http://www.wral.com/former-tea-party-activist-mccrory-donor-to-advise-dhhs-leaders/12892346/

Yeah, "limited government" for everyone else, but gimme that $95K salary. I DETEST these hypocritical mutherfuckers!

[barbtries]

3. i can't believe they keep doing this

it's so corrupt, and so in-your-face! can we get the ACLU on board, or is there some way to fight back on this shit?!

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4. I think they're busy with the voter suppression issue.

What a state!

[supernova]

5. Is DHHS the new jobs program for

incompetent GOP campaign workers?

It sure seems like it.

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6. $1,250 donation parlayed into $95K job.

That's quite a return on investment.

2016 cannot come fast enough...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

7. sure seems it.

got #motorcyclevagina?