Help Wanted–Contact Glenn Youngkin
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27 responses to “Help Wanted–Contact Glenn Youngkin”
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Needs to turn his attention to the Dept of Elections.
My agency, everyone of us IT folks, all hands on deck, got our several thousand employees and the thousands of customers up and running remotely in a week.
So much for being called lazy employees. We have had turnover because of the budget/lack of pay raises, so people with decades of experience are leaving left and right for higher paying jobs. That means those of us left are pulling our weight plus …
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Pretty terrible job of vetting candidates IMHO, especially when the prospective head of VITA believes he will do that job remotely in Kansas. Was there no interview and conversation about the essential nature of the job?
The “problems” with the other agencies – is that they are all like vehicles rolling down the road while you’re trying to change a tire or a transmission, etc. Hard to do and huge potential for failure and when newly appointed folks bail – something not good is going on the process, IMHO.
Virginia is fortunate to have an agency like JLARC which has a reputation of being able to render a hard and objective “look” at agencies, and incorporates agency responses in their reports.
I would think those analyses would be required reading for prospective replacements of those agencies and a statement from each of the candidates about how they would approach the job and implement JLARC recommendations , etc.
The question in my mind is WHO on Younkin’s is doing this work and should a change be made there also? These abrupt departures of selected agency heads shows significant differing expectations between the Youngkin folks and the folks they “selected”.
I do wonder how much of the replacement stuff is PR to demonstrate change, done without the rigor such change requires. Not a good sign from a guy who came from the private sector to ‘fix” government.
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‘”Half a dozen people who worked under Lacy…said it was part of a pattern of inappropriate behavior that included crude sexual remarks to women and angry outbursts in which he would berate employees and throw things.”
Who is doing Youngkin’s vetting?’
…a good question…
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Vetting? Wazzzat?
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To my yealings: you’re looking at RMDs in the next two or three years. You might want to set your managed mutual funds to sweep dividends and gains to your settlement account. This will reduce/eliminate your need to sell current shares to meet the required distribution. As a couch potato investor, this is just my way of having to pick when to sell and avoids seller’s remorse.
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so your point is about what happens to your tax-advantaged retirement account when the stock market tanks and you still have to do an RMD?
Most folks don’t have direct access to trade in those accounts, no? Yours you do?
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Your RMD will drop accordingly, so indeed you’ll have to remove less, but ideally, you’d like to have a cash reserve to cover, 2 or 3 years of RMD (or at least the tax) so you can pick your sell points. You can transfer in-kind, but you still may have to sell some to pay taxes.
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Northam demoted the Secretary of Technology off the cabinet. As a classic bureaucrat, Northam believed that only executives with large personnel empires belonged on the cabinet (except diversity, equity and inclusion, of course). It will take Younkin quite a while to scrub out the filthy incompetence of the Northam administration.
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but you can’t be incompetent yourself in doing that task… either… There are a half dozen to a dozen agencies in Virginia that have their challenges. Did not suddenly happen on Northam’s tenure. Not sure what the comment on Biden is – thank God he’s there and not that fool who pretended to be POTUS.
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Yeah, the economy looks great right now. All hail the senile one. Trump’s mean tweets vs. Biden’s broad based mentally fading incompetence? I’ll take the mean tweets and a working economy every time.
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not his “mean” tweets -that’s blind ignorance to those who refuse to see what he actually does as POTUS. He’s your basic strongman dictator who has damaged our Democracy – with help for folks who seem to like it.
You seem to not understand that there are dozens/hundreds of advisors who make up the presidency. With Biden, not a single one of them wants to overthrow the govt.
I’m agog at the folks who seem to think tearing down the govt is a good thing. Says something about us.
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Strongman, dictator? Jesus. A bunch of loons dressed up like clowns walked into the Capitol on Jan 6. It was over in a couple of hours.
Meanwhile, Rick Scott correctly called out Biden as senile. Biden, true to form, declared that Rick Scott from Wisconsin has a problem.
Rick Scott is from Florida..
Your man is suffering from rapid cognitive decline.
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are you not paying attention to the people he was directing , firing, and demanding absolute loyalty and obedience from?
I don’t understand you guys.
He’s a clear danger to the country.
Ukraine would be in Russian hands by now with Trump in Moscow hugging Putin for his “brilliance” in taking over Ukraine and killing NATO.
I’ll totally admit that Biden is not what folks want but compared to where we’d be right now with Trump, it’s no contest.
I’ll take cognitive decline any day over the megalomania idiocy of Trump who makes personal attacks on individuals not even connected to govt and began the name-calling era which you seem to like yourself.
I clearly don’t understand why folks like you like him. He’d turn this country into something more like a strongman country like Russia if he could and you guys would be with him apparently.
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I do. They’re borderline fascists.
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Good one
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Oh you mean the Trump loons who injured over 100 police officers and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage while he watched gleefully on TV.
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Trump spoke at Greenwood, Neb., in support of Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster. When he mentioned the candidates he’s endorsed, Trump confused Vance with Josh Mandel, another candidate in Ohio’s Senate Republican primary.
“We’ve endorsed J.P. — right? J.D. Mandel, and he’s doing great. They’re all doing good,” the former president told thousands of rallygoers. “And let’s see what happens.”
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What does the elimination of the Secretary of Technology position, which was an unnecessary position because the VITA director was the key position all along, have to do with the churning in the top management positions in VITA?
By the way, the legislation eliminating the position of Secretary of Technology passed unanimously in both houses of the General Assembly. So, you could say that it was not Northam, but all the Democratic and Republican legislators who eliminated the position.
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Northam pushed it. You know that and so do I. Plenty of room on the cabinet for a diversity, equity and inclusion leader but no room for a technology leader. Regressive stupidity in Richmond. But what is new?
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VITA has had issues long before Northam. it’s just partisan to put all of it on Northam. The problems with VITA actually mirror similar issues with other govt agencies as well as the private sector in recognizing the importance of a unified IT function. Everyone wants their own unique setup and it leads to disaster.
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Yes, Northam proposed it. There was no opposition.
When there is a situation in which a Cabinet Secretary oversees just one major agency and all the major decisions are made by the agency director, the Cabinet position is redundant. The legislation eliminating the Secretariat of Technology included language directing the Secretary of Administration to develop the state’s policy regarding technology. One approach would be the one that Youngkin has taken: appoint as Secretary of Administration someone who has a good background in technology.
For what it’s worth, I think the inclusion the establishment of a diversity, equity, and inclusion director, especially as a Cabinet position, was unnecessary and primarily virture signalling. Youngkin should have left the position unfilled.
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Much like the State Superintendent of Public Education being governed by the Secretary of Education. Never heard of before? The Board of Education oversees public instruction by way of the Superintendent, not the Secretary of Education
… “he appeared intoxicated during an executive meeting, slurring his words, acting confused and making an off-color statement.”
Sounds like Joe Biden ever day.
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Good thing we can’t “hear” you, eh?
The availability of much better paying and career-building jobs virtually assures the eventual appointment will fulfill the Peter Principle from the git-go. No need to rise to ineffectuality.
As you work your way up, you will be afforded more and more margin for errors. Eventually, having made enough of them, you will have created your style.
You are not in Kansas anymore.
FWIW, the tulip garden is REALLY looking bad…
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