opinions?
So, I signed this petition and am passing it on to you.
Dear friend,
Apparently the Bush administration did not learn anything from the Michael Brown/FEMA debacle. The Bush administration's point man for a flu pandemic is another crony with no experience related to his job. Stewart Simonson, the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has no public health management experience. He got his job because he is close with former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Will you join me in urging the Bush administration to replace Simonson with a more obviously qualified person?
http://political.moveon.org/flupandemic/
We can't sit by and let another unqualified appointee put our public health at risk.
Thanks.
Simonson is Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). His job before joining HHS was as corporate secretary and counsel for Amtrak when Thompson was chief of the rail service. Prior to Amtrak, Simonson was staff lawyer for Thompson when he was governor of Wisconsin.2 In short, he is not qualified for a public health job that hundreds of millions of people are counting on.
This isn't just a case of resume inflation. Simonson doesn't seem to have a grasp on the very important work he is supposed to be doing right now. At a hearing in the House of Representatives in July, Simonson claimed he had the money he needed to purchase influenza vaccine and antiviral medication.3 The very next day, his office submitted a funding request to Congress seeking an additional $150 million for flu vaccine and antiviral medication.4 Last month the Congress gave another $4 billion for the effort.5
Dear friend,
Apparently the Bush administration did not learn anything from the Michael Brown/FEMA debacle. The Bush administration's point man for a flu pandemic is another crony with no experience related to his job. Stewart Simonson, the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has no public health management experience. He got his job because he is close with former HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson.
Will you join me in urging the Bush administration to replace Simonson with a more obviously qualified person?
http://political.moveon.org/flupandemic/
We can't sit by and let another unqualified appointee put our public health at risk.
Thanks.
Simonson is Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). His job before joining HHS was as corporate secretary and counsel for Amtrak when Thompson was chief of the rail service. Prior to Amtrak, Simonson was staff lawyer for Thompson when he was governor of Wisconsin.2 In short, he is not qualified for a public health job that hundreds of millions of people are counting on.
This isn't just a case of resume inflation. Simonson doesn't seem to have a grasp on the very important work he is supposed to be doing right now. At a hearing in the House of Representatives in July, Simonson claimed he had the money he needed to purchase influenza vaccine and antiviral medication.3 The very next day, his office submitted a funding request to Congress seeking an additional $150 million for flu vaccine and antiviral medication.4 Last month the Congress gave another $4 billion for the effort.5