Political Screening for all Park Service Managers

phantom power

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Fri Oct-14-05 06:51 PM
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Political Screening for all Park Service Managers

POLITICAL SCREENING FOR ALL PARK SERVICE MANAGERS — Mid-Level Managers Picked for Fealty to “the President’s Management Agenda”

Washington, DC — The National Park Service has started using a political loyalty test for picking all its top civil service positions, according to an agency directive released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Under the new order, all mid-level managers and above must also be approved by a Bush administration political appointee.

http://www.peer.org/news/print_detail.php?row_id=598

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nashville_brook

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Fri Oct-14-05 06:54 PM
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1. here's more of the OUTRAGE!

The October 11, 2005 order issued by NPS Director Fran Mainella requires that the selection criteria for all civil service management slots (Government Service grades or GS-13, 14 and 15) include the “ability to lead employees in achieving the …Secretary’s 4Cs and the President’s Management Agenda.” In addition, candidates must be screened by Park Service headquarters and “the Assistant Secretary for Fish, and Wildlife, and Parks,” the number three political appointee in the agency.

The order represents a complete centralization of Park Service promotion and hiring in what has traditionally been a decentralized agency. More strikingly, the order is an unprecedented political intrusion into what are supposed to be non-partisan, merit system personnel decisions.

The President’s Management Agenda includes controversial policies and proposals such as aggressive use of outsourcing to replace civil servants, reliance on “faith-based initiatives” and rollbacks of civil service rights. Interior Secretary Gale Norton’s “4Cs” is a slogan she uses to express her management approach: “4 Cs: communication, consultation, cooperation, all in the service of conservation.”

“It is outrageous that park superintendents must swear political loyalty to the Bush agenda and parrot hokey mottos in order to earn a promotion,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch. “The merit system is supposed to be about ability, not apple polishing.”

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rzemanfl

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Fri Oct-14-05 06:54 PM
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2. Great. Now I have to boycott National Parks too? n/t

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phantom power

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Fri Oct-14-05 06:56 PM
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3. I would enjoy them while you still can.

Go visit them one last time, before these new politically vetted "managers" get their partisan little paws on them.

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tk2kewl

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Fri Oct-14-05 07:02 PM
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4. Indeed

Privatize!

It's part of the plan. Run up the debt to the point that the government can't support the parks and then sell them off to Disney, Hilton and Marriott as well as oil, logging and mining companies.

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Fri Oct-14-05 07:39 PM
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5. Sure, why not?

It's unused land anyway. What do the animals care? Put high end hotels and theme parks on them and make some money before this country collapses into a low end third world country with Chinese as the first language. :sarcasm:

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tk2kewl

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Fri Oct-14-05 07:41 PM
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6. Congress is considering a plan now to sell 15 parks

Edited on Fri Oct-14-05 07:42 PM by tk2kewl

i'll look for linkk

edited to add ==> http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=53953

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Bernardo de La Paz

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Fri Oct-14-05 07:49 PM
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7. Public servants MUST be beyond politics because the overlap administration

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Fri Oct-14-05 07:51 PM
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8. Just when Communism goes into history's dustbin ...

... the Poliburo rises from the dead and registers Republican.

--p!

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