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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:47 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 29 August 2007 02:47
…and Democrat leaders doing nothing. From the Delaware New Journal:
A union leader at the Delaware Psychiatric Center knows who leaked confidential information from a legislative committee investigating patient abuse and sexual assaults at the state hospital, but he's refusing to name the source of the leak.
And then…
One of the would-be witnesses said Monday they consider the anonymous signs a not-so-subtle form of intimidation. Armed with the time, date and place of the confidential hearings, center officials could have watched employees coming and going to the hearings, these employees said.
One sign was posted on a bulletin board housed in a locked display case used by Gregory Boston, president of the attendants' union Local 640.
Boston has keys to the case.
“I don't know who put it there,” said Boston, whose prior criminal record became an issue last month when DPC defended its hiring practices and process for conducting criminal background checks. “I'll have to check into that.”
Boston goes on to say that the distribution of the signs was a way to keep employees informed, then goes on to say:
“Whether it leads to me or not, our basic understanding was to give everybody a chance to speak,” he said.
Huh?
So to recap to this point, the Delaware legislature is holding a confidential hearing to talk to witnesses about patient abuse and sexual assaults at the state hospital. If those things are going on in the hospital, somebody somewhere, union members perhaps, are going to be held accountable and might even lose their jobs.
So, to keep whistle blowers from stepping up and doing what's right what happens? Bright yellow, attention grabbing fliers are distributed all over the place (including a locked display controlled by the union bosses) to essentially turn these private whistle blowing sessions into public events.
What's wrong with that you ask?
Nothing except the folks who are testifying – likely against their superiors (you know the people who can control their employment future) get outed as rats, or worse – don't testify to the abuses that are occurring to patients.
It's a pretty big issue – and you'd expect the state's young Democrat Attorney General Beau Biden to step up and say something in a public way, be a leader if you will, and protect the whistle blowers.
So far nothing but crickets from the Democrat A.G.'s office.
Crickets.
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