Sonia Pitt, the MnDOT emergency response executive fired for taking an unauthorized, state-paid trip to Washington during the Interstate 35W bridge disaster, is now working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pitt…confirmed that she is working for Homeland Security’s Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) at its headquarters in Arlington, Va. Her job title is “Transportation Security Specialist.” Pitt declined to discuss her job responsibilities, her length of employment with the federal agency or her salary.
TSA regional spokesperson Carrie Harmon would provide only Pitt’s job title and say that she was hired in May. That was six months after she was fired from her Minnesota post for unprofessional conduct, travel improprieties and misuse of state resources.
After the bridge collapse Aug. 1, Pitt didn’t return to Minnesota for nearly two weeks, even as emergency officials struggled to recover the bodies of 13 people killed in the disaster.
Subsequently, three top MnDOT managers were reprimanded and one was suspended for lax oversight of Pitt.
RTFA for details on this bureaucrat hack. She fits perfectly with Bush White House standards for Homeland Insecurity.
Thanks, Mr. Justin
News.. She has just been fired…
http://www.startribune.com/local/26145699.html?location_refer=news
She now works as McCain’s border security adviser (ok, I made that one up).
She’s already been fired from TSA
No talk about the magnetic weapon that took out the bridge. Weird…..
Damn NASA gl sacrifices.
She can always look forward to a fast paced and exciting career in the food service or janitorial industries.
With a job title like that it sounded like she was getting minimum wage. Even the illegal aliens mopping the toilets look down on her.
oh, that McCain celebrity ad is on your blog for adsense. oh it’s hot. I click and click. Sometimes in the late afternoon, I have enough gumption to click somemore.
Why did it take so long for the Feds to do a background check? Shit, it was a $90k yr job, not some minimum wage crap.
This bridge was only the most dramatic symptom of Reagan’s Republican philosophy that government can do no good.
If you want to see a real horror story of neglect, go visit an inner city school.
Were all safe now.
Oops on my last post. I went straight to the fact she was fired. But my last statement I still stand by. It took the media to get her fired…
She had friends in high places. Never mind that she doesn’t do good work.
She’ll probably get rehired, right after the 2008 election. Maybe working for FEMA or the Mexican boarder patrol. One of many Fed jobs created for its political insiders. You have to wonder who she knows, or what she knows, that they’re so motivated to keep her employed so she won’t “tell all” in some book.
Her “friend in high places” was her lover in the in the TSA. (He is the reason she didn’t come back to MN to do her job). Not only was her husband being cheated on, but so were the taxpayers of MN. Do a search on the Minneapolis Star Tribunes website for the numerous articles about her failures/affair.