Yo, Yo, Yo, trouble in River City.
(T) here’s intrigue over the fact that his resignation took place the day after he sent an email to 4,300 employees celebrating Father's Day and his two-year anniversary. But that wasn’t all the email was celebrating; it was also acknowledging late rapper Tupac Shakur's birthday.
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There’s more to this story, and it seems to have an oblique reference to the internal politics in Iowa state government and its RW Governor.
Gov. Kim Reynolds pushed out the leader of Iowa's Department of Human Services on Monday without explaining why.
Leaders of the agency, the state's largest, are often the target of criticism — and Jerry Foxhoven was no exception. But he was an upbeat champion of the department's work, and he had repeatedly drawn public praise from the governor.
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The governor's office did not respond Monday to requests for more information. Under a 2017 law signed by then-Gov. Terry Branstad, when a state employee is fired or resigns in lieu of termination, the public is supposed to be told the reasons.
The department, the state's largest, has a $6.5 billion annual budget and about 4,000 employees.
In his two years as its director, the former Drake University law professor oversaw Iowa's controversial privatized Medicaid system, including the abrupt departures of two of the original three national insurance carriers hired to manage care for 600,000 poor or disabled Iowans whose health care is covered by Medicaid.
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