Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Board Fires VA Secretary

Ouch.

The Wisconsin Veterans Affairs Board has fired Department Secretary John Scocos just two months after he returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

The board fired Scocos during a special meeting in Madison after spending 90 minutes berating him for a series of missteps and miscommunications. They complained Scocos had kept them in the dark about key decisions.

Scocos said he was given the option of resigning but declined. He said his firing was unfair and he planned to take legal action against the board and its members alleging they violated a federal law that protects returning military members.

If he was fired for cause, I don’t think that the law protecting returning soldiers would protect him.

(2) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1728 hrs
Military + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. God - FINALLY at long last!

    If ever there was a guy who needed firing, it was John Scocos.

    What’s most shameful is that he has repeatedly wrapped himself in the cloak of the USERRA law in a cynical attempt to protect himself from scrutiny for his incompetence as WDVA Secretary.  That law was written to protect regular Joes from termination for serving their country—not to provide a guarantee of lifetime employment to political appointees making $120,000 a year to screw up their agencies. 

    Lots of luck to Scocos in finding another job where he will get paid more to do less than he did as Secretary of WDVA.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 24, 2009 at 2215 hrs


  2. Hear hear!  Outside of hiring hot pages while he was Assembly Sergeant, I can’t point to a single thing that made John Scocos’ tenure in high-level appointed positions noteworthy or meritorious.  He is, however, a role model for those who believe in “social networking” (to put it politely) as a means to climbing the ladder in the workplace.

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on November 24, 2009 at 2341 hrs


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