Listen To The Little People
Perhaps the House ethics committee should be talking to this guy. His complaints about the page programme are mainly about the quality of teaching and personnel, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he could shed some light on the house page scandal too. For example House Clerk Jeff Trandahl ( in overall charge of the page programme) is not not one of his favourite people :
Hello 2001-2003 pages and those interested in the House Page Program, I was fired from the House Page Program on June 11, 2003 after almost two academic years of devoted service.
I am writing this to tell my side of the story to my former colleagues and to affect some positive change in the Page Program. I intend to professionally and constructively criticize my former employer. In doing so, I have decided to remove the Page Program from my resume.
My supervisor, House Clerk Jeff Trandahl, asserted that I was fired because I falsified the study hall sign-in sheet, and hence I jeopardized the entire Page Program. However, the intent of the study hall sign-in sheet is not to account for the whereabouts of the pages, but simply to take attendance in study hall. The study hall sign-in sheets are not archived. The sign-in sheet in the front office is the official record of the whereabouts of the pages. The front office sign-in sheets are archived. Jenelle Pulis, who manages the page dorm, asserted that these records were never compromised. The whereabouts of the pages was never in doubt, and any page could have been found in an emergency. When I asked Jeff Trandahl to detail exactly how I jeopardized the entire page program, the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives offered the following, and I could not make this up if I tried: if a bomb went off in the Page Dorm office, destroying the front desk sign-in sheet, the falsified study hall sign-in sheet, if it had survived the blast, could compromise the program.
So sloppy paperwork jeopardises the programme, but a paedophiliac congressmen preying on teenagers doesn’t. Nice to see that the Congressional leadership has its priorities straight.
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