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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In other words, she's a single mom who, like all single parents, sometimes finds herself in a child care bind. I get that this violated rules and obviously she needs to find a better solution, but this is so far from something I'm going to demonize her for.[/quote]

According to the most recent figures, Snowden's annual salary is $201,571. She can afford child care that does not involve her taxpayer-funded employees.

https://dchr.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dchr/publication/attachments/public_body_employee_information_09302017.pdf[/quote]

Did you actually read the article? This wasn't something she did on a regular basis, there were three incidents. Once she asked (and paid from her own pocket) a staff member to drive her son to a relative's house so the relative could watch him (no explanation in the article for why she needed the staffer to do it). The second time, she asked a staffer to pick him up from school because the staffer had booked her into a meeting when she was supposed to be doing pick-up. The third time she didn't actually ask anyone to watch her son, she left him in her office while she went to a meeting because the relative who was supposed to pick him up had car trouble. The finding by the investigator in that case was that since he was left unattended (at age 8, not 2), it was implied that the staff would supervise him. These are the kinds of binds working parents find themselves in all the time and have to cobble together a solution. Again, she needs to find a better one, but this isn't a case of someone who just doesn't want to pay for childcare dumping her kid on her assistant every day.[/quote]

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