| Comment Number: | OL-10510596 |
| Received: | 3/16/2005 10:42:18 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
Congress enacted civil service reform after Garfield’s assassination. 150 years later New Jersey Governor James McGreevy placed his “BEST QUALIFIED” boy toy in his favorite position and in the position of homeland security director. The NSPS is a fantasy that the “BEST and most qualified” will be rewarded. Congress is returning the USA to the 1800s when there was the struggle for spoils and patronage between two wings of the post-Civil War party of Lincoln. The assassin, Charles Guiteau, was a resentful partisan of the wing that Garfield didn't fully reward. Soon after the president's death, and largely as a result, Congress enacted civil service reform. Will we next be repealing the hatch act and creating a national Chicago style “Daley machine”?