Baltimore Sun to Arrogant Anthony Brown; “BAD MOVE” Anthony refused
to apologize to the people of Maryland for the Health Care Disaster and the Sun
shames him for his arrogance.
All politics is personal and the Baltimore Sun shames
Anthony Brown for forgetting the average people. For Sharon and Dave Filicko of
Bel Air Anthony Brown’s health Care mess is a very real personal
problem. Sharon had to skip her January chemotherapy because Arrogant Anthony Brown
screwed up her insurance.
It is not Anthony Brown’s failure that should worry the voters as much as the lies he tells to cover it up.
Everyone has problems and we all know IT projects can be a risk. But when there is a problem the real questions revolve around was the person honest and were they able to find a solution and deal with the problem. In the Maryland Heath Care Disaster We have a real problem in that what Anthony Brown said to WBAL’s Jayne Miller in “Brown regroups with I-Team over health care website”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bl4lJzq1yk
Brown stated;
“At no time did the reports say that we’ve got a problem”.
Please review the video starting at 1:12.
Now the Washington Post shows he was lying!
This is directly contradicted by the Washington Post article of January 11, 2014 that reviewed thousands of pages of documents:
Evidence that Reports of Risk started a year earlier
“The first came in the fall of 2012, just over a year before the exchange was to launch. Auditors from the Portland, Maine-based firm of BerryDunn found that exchange officials were missing early deadlines to begin building the IT backbone for the public Web site, known as the Maryland Health Connection.”
‘BerryDunn said in a PowerPoint presentation delivered to senior state officials in December. Five of the presentation’s slides began with: “There is a risk . . .”’
More Bad News 8 months before Role Out
“There is also no overall Master Project Plan and schedule that is being utilized to manage the milestones and activities necessary for the entire program effort,” BerryDunn warned in a Feb. 25 report.”
Reports of Problems Ignored just before Roll Out
“On a conference call at the start of the final week of September, senior aides gave O’Malley a high-level summary of expected troubles with the exchange.
The Web site would not allow some people to check for subsidies or to select plans, but everyone should at least be able to log on, he was told, according to several aides.
The governor ended the call, said John Griffin, his chief of staff, saying the state should “move forward.”
But two days later, Griffin requested that a roomful of aides to the governor and Brown vote on whether to proceed. Most gave the Oct. 1 launch a green light. The next day, O’Malley smiled as Obama visited Prince George’s County and praised state leaders for being ready to roll.”
Today after Church I was speaking with friends and neighbors about politics and Jolene Ivey. I mentioned that I like helping underdogs like Jolene. Then someone said:
“I’m not sure Jolene is the underdog anymore, did you see today’s Washington Post.”
I am sure you will read it for yourself but it is an ugly story of gross incompetence and warnings given and State Officials including Anthony Brown ignoring them. For instance:
“But two days later, Griffin requested that a roomful of aides to the governor and Brown vote on whether to proceed. Most gave the Oct. 1 launch a green light. The next day, O’Malley smiled as Obama visited Prince George’s County and praised state leaders for being ready to roll.”
It also includes choice quotes such as:
“He pasted in a line from U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski’s endorsement of the lieutenant governor the day before: “While we’re fighting to save Obamacare, we know that in Maryland we have a health exchange that’s ready to go because of Anthony Brown,” the Maryland Democrat said.”
So now the question is Just who is the Underdog now?
