I'm guessing he was hired during the Bush administration...he sure sounds like Brownie and the rest of those Repubs who went to Washington to enrich themselves rather than working for the American people. Dems tend to look at their jobs as public servants, because they actually think government is there to help people. Repubs only know how to help themselves.

"She owned a database company in Arlington when she met Jeffrey. They married in 1999 and moved in 2004 to Northern California, where he was regional buildings commissioner for the GSA’s Public Buildings Service, based in San Francisco. In 2009 he also became acting administrator."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gsa-officials-wife-accompanied-him-on-trips-at-taxpayer-expense/2012/04/17/gIQAHdrEPT_singlePage.html

Regardless, looks like he got his first real management position under Bush in 2004 when he moved to SF to be regional buildings commissioner, and oriented under that administration as to how to run shop at GSA. Just like Sullivan was hired to run the Secret Service under Bush, seems like all the scandals are due to Bush holdovers.

Repubs love to blame Dems for Repub follies. Like Romney blaming Obama for all the loss of women's jobs, when it's the Repub governors' manic government worker layoffs (especially teachers) that caused most of those losses. The 11 states that went Republican in 2010 alone accounted for 40.5 percent of all state and local government job losses (according to BLS data, 57 percent of government workers are women).

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/10/mitt-romney/romney-campaign-says-women-were-hit-hard-job-losse/

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/apr/12/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-chart-claims-barack-obama-has-worst-re/

Most people who work for the federal government are career people and whoever the president is has nothing to do with their employment. Presidents don't have that many appointments. Neely got his first management position under Bush but that is not a presidential appointment. Obama appointed him the acting administrator in 2009. Does that mean it is Obama's fault? I don't think so. There is a culture of waste in the GSA which is at fault and needs to be rooted out no matter who appointed who.

Neely held two positions. One was the acting administrator. Usually a person that is appointed to a position does not assume the position until confirmed. Is it possible that Neely was a career bureaucrat that was preforming the duties in a vacant position.

I have been digging around with Google to find the answer. Whenever something becomes controversial the searches become so cluttered with the same story from many sources, things become hard to find.

I think he was a career employee. I have the same problem with Google.

and the traps are finally being flushed out and triggered. Many former civil-service positions became appointee during Shrub's administration and then after the 2008 election, were quickly converted back, effectively leaving these hidden putrid treasures behind.

I used to work for the government (less than a year out of college), and I can tell you they were the laziest bunch I have ever seen. We had some employees you actually slept during the day. It was not a good environment for someone trying to establish himself in a profession. I went to a job were I regularly put in 50-60 hours (OT not compensated). I admit I was being exploited, but I learned so much on that first "real" job that has helped me in my career going forward. When you are young and without children it is good to have a job that gives you responsibility.

I've also had ones who didn't pull their weight and had to be prodded and threatened with disciplinary action to get any amount of productivity out of them. I've also known those who simply did a day's work for a day's pay--they did what they needed to do, and that's fair enough. I have to say that I've known more good ones than bad ones.

It's not fair or accurate to say that all of them were lazy. You may have worked in a bad shop with poor leaders. There are parts of the Pentagon where the civilians work like stevedores.

he may have been with that department since 2006.

She also charged per diem to live in her own home. She refused to live in the Governor's mansion in the Capital city, so she lived at home and charged the state per diem...It is the Republican way. The stripping government of it's treasury is a Republican given and the main reason they hate the Democrats so much is Democrats try and put a stop to it...

She resigned from office to avoid wasting the taxpayers' time and money defending against the many frivolous lawsuits against her. Amazing how all the lawsuits were dropped or dismissed after her resignation.

with saving Alaska money trying to defend her ethic charges....She could give a shit about Alaska or anyone else if they don't help her get richer.. She is nothing but a scam artist.

Just showing more evidence of how Republicans try to tap the government well and get really pissed off at Democrats that try to stop them from doing so..

My dad worked for GSA in DC from the late '60s through the early '90s and because of some other scandal(s) -- not exactly sure when they happened there -- could have been before he joined the agency or in the '70s. I asked my dad one time in the '80s why he didn't sign up for an airline frequent flyer program as he travelled ocassionally for work. He said because of past scandals at the agency he and his colleagues were very careful not to do anything that could be misconstrued. I guess Neely (hired in the '70s, someone said) never got that memo or ignored it.