Another FIrst Class Bush Appointee

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/27/AR2005112700609.html

Even Mediation Agency Has Boardroom Politics
Ex-Chief of Staff Says Appointee Targeted Her

By Amy Joyce
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, November 28, 2005; A19



...A former chief of staff of the board filed complaints against the agency last year, saying she was targeted by a Bush-appointed board member who she says was responsible for her eventual dismissal.


...Mansfield said in the complaints filed in April 2004 with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Special Counsel that she was harassed and ultimately removed as chief of staff by then-Chairman Edward J. Fitzmaurice Jr., who remains on the board.

...Mansfield says that as an elections monitor for the rerun of the 1996 International Brotherhood of Teamsters election, she supervised an investigation into the actions of James D. Potter, who was a Teamsters official for the Southern region. As a result of her investigation, he was charged with wrongdoing and barred from a seat on the Teamsters board. During that period, Fitzmaurice was a lawyer with James L. Hicks and Associates of Dallas, the firm that represented Potter. Mansfield said she believes it was the Teamsters issue that caused the problems between her and Fitzmaurice.

regardles of actual qualifications. They make out like bandits, don't they?

and a morning kick by me for me

unfortunately, GWB has run the kind of shop that makes it easy to believe that Mansfield was, in fact, targeted and disposed of. That is just how they operate.

www.nmb.gov

It does not look like he has many qualifications to be on a labor relations board.

Than be on a board that deals with labor managment relations and for the mediation part looks like he is causing all sorts of problens not helping to clear them up.




Edward J. Fitzmaurice, Jr., a Member of the National Mediation Board since August 2, 2002, also served as Chairman from July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004. He was nominated to the NMB by President Bush on November 9, 2001, and confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, 2002.

After graduating from Villanova University, Member Fitzmaurice served four and a half years as an Officer of Marines. He was designated a Naval Aviator, and served in the Dominican Republic and Vietnam as a Captain and Aircraft Commander, receiving several decorations including the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and 11 strike/flight Air Medals, the Presidential Unit Citation and Navy Unit Commendation.

Upon release from active duty, Member Fitzmaurice became a pilot for Braniff International and served as a domestic and international Captain, Co-Pilot, and Flight Engineer.

Simultaneously with piloting for Braniff, he attended the Southern Methodist University School of Law and was licensed by the State Bar of Texas in 1971. Member Fitzmaurice is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

He was an associate with the firm of Kern, Wooley and Maloney representing Underwriters at Lloyd's in aviation-related matters and was Of Counsel to the labor law firm of James L. Hicks and Associates, both in Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Fitzmaurice and his wife Marcia have two grown children; daughter Carey is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and son Evan is an associate with the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Dallas, Texas.