Helen Jones-Kelley, the state agency director who authorized the infamous background search on Joe the Plumber, has resigned.
Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, made the decision within the past hour and has sent a letter of resignation to the governor, her attorney H. Ritchey Hollenbaugh confirmed.
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland had suspended Jones-Kelley after a state inspector general’s report concluded that the search on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, was not done for legitimate reasons. Republicans, however, complained that the punishment was too light and that Jones-Kelley should be fired.
Jones-Kelley was expected to return Sunday from the 30-day unpaid suspension for allowing child support and other unnecessary personal checks into Wurzelbacher, who became an overnight sensation in October during the presidential campaign.
Since then, both Strickland and Jones-Kelley have become the target of harsh criticism by Republicans, who said the searches were a political witch hunt
SOURCE: OPENNERS
LINKS:
(1) Ohio snooper who targeted Joe the Plumber resignsby Michelle Malkin
(2) Whistleblower exposes the Joe the Plumber snoopers’ cover-up
(3) Ohio governor downplays snooper’s blatant misuse of office
She’s got something else lined up, I’ll wager. She did the Obama campaign a big favor, so she’ll be on a number of Xmas lists.
ooooooooooh I won’t say what was on my mind. I be good!
LOL Just now reading the AP story on J-K’s resignation. J-K “said in a statement accompanying her resignation that she won’t allow her reputation to be disparaged …” So, after breaking agency rules and possibly entering the zone of criminality in order to wreck Wurzelbacher’s reputation (He asked The One a question!!!), she’s now worried that people will think badly of her.
Our Enemy The State
She did the crime she needs to pay!