Suddenly his job means more to him than his girlfirend.
[Wolfowitz] accused the bank’s ethics committee of forcing him to oversee the raise for his longtime companion, Shaha Riza, as compensation for her transfer to a different job. The ethics panel was afraid to confront her, Wolfowitz said, because its members knew she was “extremely angry and upset.”
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Wolfowitz effectively blamed Riza for his predicament as well, saying that her “intractable position” in demanding a salary increase as compensation for her career disruption forced him to grant one to pre-empt a lawsuit.
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“Everyone acknowledges that Ms. Riza was extremely angry and upset about being required to take an external placement to resolve a problem that was not of her making,” Wolfowitz wrote, portraying the raise as a “settlement of claims.”
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But the investigating committee found that Riza had no legitimate grievance meriting a settlement.
The thing that really gets me is how the repubs always decry “victim mentality” and how one should take responsibility – but only to discredit a democrat.
Yet when one of their own gets caught in a situation (even one like this that smells to high heaven on the face of it and any reasonable person would have thought conflict-of-intrest before the fact), the response is a long whine of why I was the victim.
NOTE TO DEMOCRATS: prepare a video of prominent republicans whining on how they are the victim. You’ve got a long list of recent dismissals to work with.
yes, especially when they say we always claim victimhood.
they are the BULLY party.
I love how he’s throwing her under the bus…”she was such a vicious bitch you made me give her a massive raise…and a bonus!” That’s got to warm the old home life up.
But, can you imagine a couple more destined to grow to look more like each other with age?
The Republican culture of entitlement at work.
The Republican culture of entitlement at work.