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NEWS: Nov. 28, 2016
Millions Voted Illegally, Trump Claims In a daylong storm of Twitter posts voicing anger about a three-state recount push, Donald Trump leveled a baseless claim on Sunday that he had fallen short in the popular vote in the general election only because millions of people had voted illegally. Trump's tweets marked an unprecedented rebuke by a president-elect of the American electoral system and were met with immediate condemnation from voting experts and others. >> New York Times, Politico Researchers: Russians Helped Spread 'Fake News' The flood of "fake news" this election season got support from a sophisticated Russian propaganda campaign that created and spread misleading articles online with the goal of helping Trump, punishing Hillary Clinton and undermining faith in American democracy, say independent researchers who tracked the operation. >> Washington Post Public Workforce | The Nation Cap on Bonuses for Federal Workers Raised Federal agencies will be able to give their employees slightly larger bonuses in fiscal 2017 after a six-year freeze on performance awards, according to new White House guidance. The aggregate spending cap for awards for non-Senior Executive Service and non-senior level employees will increase from about 1 percent to 1.5 percent. >> Government Executive California High Court to Review Public-Pension Ruling Accepting an appeal from labor unions, the California Supreme Court decided to review a lower court's ruling that would give state and local governments new authority to cut public-employee pensions. >> Los Angeles Times
Agency Director Ousted After Reports of Mass Firings Gov. Doug Ducey forced the resignation of Department of Economic Security Director Tim Jeffries after reports of questionable mass firings at the social welfare agency and a party at which Jeffries paid for alcohol for agency employees. As Jeffries was escorted from DES headquarters, five of his close associates also were "separated." >> Arizona Republic D.C. Contracting Whistleblower Wins $1.7 Million A federal jury ordered the District of Columbia government to pay Eric W. Payne, a former senior city contracting official, $1.7 million in damages after finding he was wrongfully demoted and fired for objecting to what he deemed political meddling in city contracting. >> Washington Post 2 Ex-Advisers to N.Y. Governor Charged with Corruption Two former advisers to New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo who were arrested in September were indicted on federal corruption charges, another legal milestone in a bribery and bid-rigging scandal that has struck at the highest levels of the Cuomo administration. >> New York Times Pennsylvania AG: Review of Pornographic Emails Inept Pennsylvania Attorney General Bruce Beemer released a long-awaited report on pornographic emails sent on state computers, but only after stripping it of senders' names and dismissing the review as ineptly researched and a "poor use" of public funds. >> Philly.com The Military | The Nation 134,000 Sailors' Personal Information Hacked The names and Social Security numbers of more than 134,000 current and former sailors were accessed by "unknown individuals" after a contractor's employee's laptop was compromised, the Navy said. There is no evidence at this stage of the investigation to suggest that the information has been misused, the Navy said. >> USA Today Army Reprimands General over Botched Anthrax Handling The highest-ranking officer implicated in last year's scandal involving the Pentagon's botched handling of anthrax has received career-killing discipline. The Army reprimanded Brig. Gen. William King after finding fault with his command of its laboratories in Utah. >> USA Today
University's Leader Dies of Cancer North Carolina Central University Chancellor Debra Saunders-White died of cancer Saturday at the age of 59, three and a half years after she became the first permanent female leader of the historically black university. The University of North Carolina system "lost a great leader today," UNC President Margaret Spellings said. >> Raleigh News & Observer Penn State to Pay $2.4 Million Fine in Child-Sex Case Penn State University moved to end another costly episode triggered by the Jerry Sandusky child sex-assault scandal, announcing it will pay a record $2.4 million fine assessed by the U.S. Department of Education for violating federal campus crime reporting rules. >> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Emergency Funding OKd for 3 Illinois Universities Three of Illinois' most financially vulnerable public universities are set to receive a combined $17 million in emergency funding to support operations through the end of the year. >> Chicago >> Follow GovManagement on Twitter >> Share this edition:
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QUOTABLE “I can't and don't blame anyone who feels they can't stay.” Susan Hennessey, a former attorney at the National Security Agency who has been urging federal civil servants to keep working in Donald Trump's administration to help resist potential abuses of power at a time when Trump's vows to freeze federal hiring, lack of political experience and contentious rhetoric have prompted some to assess whether they should leave government before he takes office on Jan. 20 >> Reuters | More quotes
Governing | George F. Will The Worship of the Charismatic Totalitarians With the end of Fidel Castro's nasty life, we can hope, if not reasonably expect, to have seen the last of charismatic totalitarians worshiped by political pilgrims from open societies. Experience suggests that there will always be tyranny tourists in flight from what they consider the boring banality of bourgeois society and eager for the excitement of sojourns in "progressive" despotisms that they are free to admire and then leave. >> Washington Post | More commentaries DATAPOINT 97,184 Number of the more than 230,000 Oregonians who, under a state program enacted in 2015, were automatically registered by vote when they visited a Department of Motor Vehicles office and who cast ballots in the Nov. 8 election, amounting to about 42 percent of the total of those automatically registered, compared to a voting turnout of 79 percent of those who had registered by mail or through the secretary of state's website >> Stateline | More data UPCOMING EVENTS Federal Computer Week Conference: "Federal IT After the Transition" Nov. 29, Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution and University of Pennsylvania Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society Survey release and discussion: "The Halo Effect and the Economic Value of Faith-Based Organizations" Nov. 29, 9-10:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Enterprise Institute Discussion: "Conversation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann" Nov. 29, 9:30-10:30 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Heritage Foundation Report release by U.S. Sen. James Lankford: "Federal Fumbles: 100 Ways the Government Dropped the Ball" Nov. 29, 10-11 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. Government Executive Digital Citizen Summit Nov. 30, 7:30-11 a.m., Washington, D.C. Governing California Leadership Forum Dec. 6, Sacramento, Calif. Urban Institute Discussion: "Community Colleges Since the Great Recession" Dec. 6, 9:30-11 a.m. ET, Washington, D.C. American Society for Public Administration Webinar: "Big Data and Smart Cities Development" Dec. 6, 1 p.m. ET Government Technology Webinar: "Protecting Your City Identity on Social: How Deerfield Beach, Fla., Defends Its Brand with Social Media Archiving" Dec. 6, 2 p.m. ET American Society for Public Administration BookTalk webinar: "Peak Performance" Dec. 7, 1 p.m. ET Engaging Local Government Leaders Technology Efficiency Webinar Dec. 15, 1 p.m. ET >> Full events listings |
