Heritage Foundation board ousts president Jim DeMint

[kristopher]

By Tom Hamburger and Matea Gold May 2 at 7:15 PM
The board of the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday ousted president Jim DeMint after days of turmoil and internal debate, blaming him for management and communication problems that have roiled the venerable conservative think tank.

Thomas A. Saunders III, chairman of the Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees, said in a statement that the 22-member board unanimously requested and received the resignation of DeMint, the firebrand former senator from South Carolina. Heritage founder Ed Feulner will serve in his place until a permanent successor is chosen.

“After a comprehensive and independent review of the entire Heritage organization, the board determined there were significant and worsening management issues that led to a breakdown of internal communications and cooperation,” Saunders said. “While the organization has seen many successes, Jim DeMint and a handful of his closest advisers failed to resolve these problems.”

In his own statement, DeMint called the critique “puzzling,” saying the board had praised his work for the past four years and approved annual performance bonuses for the entire management team.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/heritage-foundation-board-ousts-president-jim-demint/2017/05/02/b53a706a-2f63-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html

Good article worth reading.

[mercuryblues]

1. sounds like

demented just found out what "right to work" really means. Fired at any time for any reason. I just wish his salary was reflective of the wages he favors for everyone else. He thinks minimum wage is too high and should be abolished.

[kristopher]

2. The latter part of the article made me wonder if his support for Trump...

...might not have been the cause. DeMint is a far right loon who is Trumpian through and through, but, I don't think there is any doubt that the GOP is going to have to get rid of Trump. In order to minimize the collateral damage it will need all the institutional support it can muster if/when they act. Whether they impeach for the grifting or deem him unstable it will be much easier of flagships like the Heritage Foundation are solidly behind the move.

I'm pretty sure they cannot count on that from DeMint.

[mercuryblues]

3. I found this interesting

Heritage served as a policy and staff pipeline for the Trump campaign and the transition, helping provide a blueprint for the White House’s 2018 budget proposal.

They still have many staff members who went to work for the WH. So I don't think they are trying to distance themselves from trump.

Several Heritage analysts already have joined the administration, notes Romina Boccia, the lead author of this year’s Heritage budget blueprint. At the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, Paul Winfree, who oversaw last year’s budget blueprint at Heritage, is now deputy director and former Heritage researcher James Sherk is in charge of labor and employment policy. Justin Bogie, another Heritage analyst, was on the OMB landing team. Justin T. Johnson, a defense budgeting expert, was on the Pentagon landing team and may stay there, Boccia added.

snip

Once the campaign was over, the connections helped. Heritage’s president, former senator Jim DeMint (R), stumped for Mick Mulvaney when his fellow South Carolinian first ran for Congress in 2010 and last December praised Mulvaney, now director of the Office of Management and Budget, as someone who would “restore sanity” to fiscal choices.

read:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/27/trumps-budget-owes-a-huge-debt-to-this-right-wing-washington-think-tank/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.e9b29754416a

I do think it is demented's personality. He is as sexist as they come. He once pretty much said pregnant women, gays and women sleeping with their boyfriends should not be teachers. He fancies himself as a pious, religious man and if you do not adhere to his beliefs you are an enemy. He makes the Puritans look like hippies. I kid you not, I had the displeasure of meeting him. sanctimonious, condescending asshole is overstating his personality traits.

[kristopher]

4. That would certainly explain it more simply.

Simple is good.