{"id":49758,"date":"2014-06-04T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49758"},"modified":"2014-06-04T10:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:51:58","slug":"firings-begin-at-phoenix-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49758","title":{"rendered":"Firings begin at Phoenix VA"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, true to their word, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs have begun firing folks at the VA in Phoenix according to a link sent to us by David to AZCentral<\/a>. Unfortunately, they’re firing the wrong people;<\/p>\n

An Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services employee said he was fired last week after attending a veterans advisory meeting organized by U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake where the VA health-care crisis was discussed.<\/p>\n

Steve Weintraub, a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves, worked for 13 months as an outreach coordinator for the department, informing veterans groups and community organizations about the department’s programs. After returning from a series of meetings Wednesday, including the Flake meeting, Weintraub said, he was terminated by Deputy Director Robert Barnes.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“I am passionate about veterans. That’s why I took this job,” Weintraub said. ” … But the leadership is more concerned about what’s going on on the Ninth Floor (the governor’s office) more than what’s going on in the veterans’ community.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, that’s who we need to fire – the people who care about veterans…people who are veterans themselves. We don’t want to fire the people who were not servicing their clientele, just the people who were.<\/p>\n

And, oh, do you know how Deputy Director Barnes knew that COL Weintraub was at the Senator’s meeting? Barnes was at the meeting, too. Because some animals are more equal than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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