[KATU] Carolyn Lawson, the IT expert who tried and failed to build Oregon's online insurance exchange, complained to an Oregon Health Authority official that she was forced to leave under false pretenses in an email uncovered by the On Your Side Investigators.
Lawson emailed OHA chief operating officer Suzanne Hoffman in January to complain that a reporter had been given her personal cell phone number, and asked that the state "allow me to move on with privacy and grace," after one of the worst health-care-exchange website launches in the nation left her career in tatters.
"I have done everything I have been asked to do," Lawson wrote. "I stuck to the talking points even though I protested ... that they were not accurate. I walked away quietly when asked to resign. I wrote the resignation letter per the script I was given."
In her email to Hoffman, Lawson also writes that she was "disheartened" by Cover Oregon interim director Bruce Goldberg's claim that Lawson and former Cover Oregon director Rocky King had deceptively led him to believe the website would be functional when she knew otherwise.
"That never happened," Lawson wrote. "I provided all the information I had and never withheld anything. I am paying for this and other misinformation with my career. My career as a CIO is over, my reputation is gone. I do not think it is too much to ask to please allow me to move on with privacy and grace.
"Please stop feeding personally damaging misinformation to the media. All I want to do is move on and try to rebuild a life for myself. It does not seem to me that this is too much to ask."
Hoffman responded to Lawson, denying that OHA had provided Lawson's personal information to the media and telling Lawson "we disagree with your characterization of the facts" discussed in the email. On Thursday, OHA refused to comment on the emails on the ground personnel matters are classified.
KATU recently obtained a copy of Lawson's resignation email, which, in fact, has a subject line of "Re: Resignation (trying again)." Claiming it's a "highly personal choice," Lawson then goes on to say she "recently experienced a family loss which has caused me to re-evaluate many things in my life including continuing to commute to Oregon while my family was in California."
The KATU Investigators recently uncovered major accountability issues on Lawson's watch, and former Republican state Rep. Patrick Sheehan told KATU earlier this month that he'd gone to the FBI with allegations Cover Oregon project managers initiated the design of dummy web pages to convince the federal government the project was further along than it actually was. The website, which was originally supposed to go live on Oct. 1, became useable for agents and community partners last week. The general public, however, still isn't able to sign up for insurance online.
KATU learned this week that Lawson has been added to the list of people to be interviewed by First Data, the firm contracted by the state to assess what went wrong with the website. She was not on the initial list of interview subjects, but is among the dozens who have been added since.
KATU's attempts to contact Lawson and King on Wednesday and Thursday went unreturned.
Yeah. You have to scan them in to the non-working website and then pay a janitor to shelp them downstairs to the shredder. When you fall too far behind scanning them in, you make the unpaid interns shred them...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
02/27/2014 10:59 Comments ||
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It's been said a million times before, but I will say it again -- if this were a private company, people would be going to jail
That said, I love the arrogant self-pity of self-serving public servants. Their bitter tears taste so sweet.
Posted by: regular joe ||
02/27/2014 11:29 Comments ||
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Too bad, Carolyn. That's what you get for getting involved with ObamaCare.
#1
Harry "accused pederast" Reid is an awful human being, even by Democrat standards
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/27/2014 11:37 Comments ||
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Yeah, and I believe that, Harry. Just like I believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. And all the people having all the problems? They believe you too! Sure they do. And the poor programmers who got stuck trying to implement all those weird ass rules on the website? I'm sure they believe it. I'm sure. But, hey, if you like your lies, you can keep 'em.
#9
If I ran the Republican Party (also known as the "Stupid Party") I would ensure that the video of Harry's remarks made it into every single House and Senate campaign this fall.
317 million Americans. Several million lost their insurance. Millions more got pushed into plans that are clearly inferior by any objective standard you care to name and cost more.
I'd be asking all those Americans this (in the voice-over of my ads): "do you consider yourself to be a liar?"
Then I'd ask for their vote in November.
And I'd win.
But then, this is the Stupid Party we're talking about so they'll likely biff this.
Posted by: Steve White ||
02/27/2014 13:18 Comments ||
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Always instructive to see the venal creatures that organized labor buys.
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[KATU] Carolyn Lawson, the IT expert who tried and failed to build Oregon's online insurance exchange, complained to an Oregon Health Authority official that she was forced to leave under false pretenses in an email uncovered by the On Your Side Investigators.
