Issa Calls For Human Garbage Park Service Chief To Resign Over Low-Life War On Combat Vets
Excerpted from Politico: The head of the National Park Service should step down over his handling of the government shutdown, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa told POLITICO on Wednesday.
"Three strikes and you should be out," Issa (R-Calif.) said after a five-hour hearing in which he and other Republicans lambasted park service Director Jonathan Jarvis for closing monuments on the National Mall, as well as the agency's earlier handling of the sequester and its decision to let Occupy Wall Street protesters camp out on federal land. "He blew it on sequestration. He blew it on Occupy, and now he admits he doesn't even think it was his responsibility to plan to mitigate [the shutdown's harm]."
Asked if he thinks Jarvis should resign, Issa said: "Yes, I believe he should resign. But the better term probably is I think he should retire because he no longer serves the public in their interest."
Earlier in the hearing, Jarvis took responsibility for closing sites like the World War II Memorial, saying his almost entirely furloughed staff didn't have enough people to keep them open safely. But he jabbed back at Issa's repeated complaints that the agency hadn't planned well enough for the shutdown that took effect Oct. 1.
"What I do is I open parks and operate parks, not planning for a closure," Jarvis said.
Issa called that remark "a sign that he doesn't care about keeping the parks open and minimizing damage and serving the public."
In earlier testimony Wednesday, Jarvis told members of Issa's panel and the House Natural Resources Committee that the White House didn't dictate how the park service handled the closures, although he said he and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell had "presented" its shutdown plans to a White House official during a telephone conversation.
Issa and other Republicans at the hearing accused Jarvis' agency of showing a pattern of apparent political bias, stretching as far back as its decision in 2011-12 to allow Occupy Wall Street protesters to camp out and "defecate" at Washington's McPherson Square. They questioned why the park service has barricaded sites like the Lincoln Memorial that stayed open during the 1995-96 government shutdowns. Keep reading
Issa Calls For Human Garbage Park Service Chief To Resign Over Low-Life War On Combat Vets
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