Howie Carr: DCR’s bare release on fired flack ‘unable to perform’

The winner of the Gov. Charlie Baker State House Hack of the Week Award is, drum roll please, “press secretary” Olivia K. Dorrance of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

Boy, is Olivia into recreation, which is why she’s been moonlighting. She was fired from her job, DCR announced Thursday, “for being unable to perform core functions and responsibilities of the job as required.”

Gov. Charlie Baker also addressed the matter. But more on that in a minute.

Was it all due to a blog post alleging Dorrance had an OnlyFans account? The adult subscription site has taken off lately.

If you want to study more closely how “Liv” had, according to the blog post, been supplementing her $55,000-a-year state salary, you should check out tbdailynews.com, which broke this latest sordid tale from the hackerama.

The DCR, which used to be known as the MDC, is one of the biggest hack holding pens in the administration of the failed governor Dementia Joe Biden calls “Charlie Parker.”

Here are a few headlines about the DCR during the Parker regime:

“Another top official at DCR has resigned … Scandal-plagued parks department challenges Baker … DCR official resigns over porn.”

That last hack, by the way, the one who was forced out for porn, remains on the GOP state committee. He’s a big Parker fan, like committee vice chairman Tom Mountain, who’s also had a few problems with, uh, the internet, shall we say.

What is it with all these Parker coat holders? I thought these hacks were into panic porn, not just plain, well, you know.

Repeated calls to Liv-a-little (as her website calls her) were not returned to ask her to confirm or deny that blog post. Her boss, Carolyn Assa, the “communications director,” who signs some DCR press releases which are not written by still another payroll Charlie identified as the “director of communications,” was the one who notified us of Olivia’s firing.

That’s the kind of agency DCR is, a hackerama’s hackerama.

Liv, an Acton native whose parents just adore lunatic Democrat state Sen. Jamie Eldridge, used to work for Sen. Richard Ross of Wrentham. Ross, a Republican, was on his way out in 2018, about to lose to Becca Rausch of Needham.

Anyway, Ross was tight with the longtime environmental affairs secretary, Matt Beaton, another hack’s hack and former state rep from Shrewsbury.

Being from the same town as Lt. Gov. Karyn “Pay to Play” Polito wasn’t Beaton’s only qualification for the $161,522-a-year job — he also duked $1,300 to Pay to Play and another $1,100 to Parker.

Beaton controlled DCR, so soon his boy Leo Roy, the DCR commissioner, had conducted a nationwide search that ended with the hiring of Olivia. And now she’s no longer writing those very important press releases that neither the communications director nor the director of communications have time to pen.

My favorite recent Liv-a-gram was the one about something called the Speedway Revitalization Project in Brighton, which she described as “vibrant.”

According to the state comptroller, Olivia’s base pay has risen from $40,500 in 2018 to $55,000 now. So far in 2021, she’s grabbed $58,821, including $9,137.07 in “overtime” and $1,000 in “other pay.”

I believe that “other pay” may be the bonus to hacks for not coming to work – excuse me, telecommuting – over the last 20 or so months. But I’m not sure, because nobody from DCR bothered to call me back.

However, in one brief telephone conversation, I did manage to ask a rather flustered Assa if Liv had been … working from home, as they say with a straight face.

“The majority of the secretariat has been,” she said.

When asked by a Herald reporter about his stance on administration employees moonlighting for adult content websites, Baker said he “would never speak to the particulars of any specific circumstance involving a personnel decision.”

“I will say that that employee has been let go,” the governor said, noting personnel decisions are “based on the specifics of each circumstance.”

“In this particular case, we made a decision to let her go,” Baker added.

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