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Worker in tape inquiry has bumpy job history
10/05/2000
By Pete Slover and George Kuempel
The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN � Juanita Yvette Lozano, the political office worker
questioned by the FBI about the leak of a George W. Bush debate
tape, quit or was asked to leave a series of jobs for poor
performance, including some under suspicion that she lied or
covered up work she failed to do, according to records and
interviews.
Ms. Lozano's veracity has come under scrutiny by federal agents
looking into the mailing of classified debate materials and a
videotape from Mr. Bush's presidential campaign to a confidant
of Democrat Al Gore's.
According to federal officials, a label on an Express Mail
package received by the Gore ally corresponds to the date and
time Ms. Lozano was filmed by a security camera mailing a
package from an Austin post office.
Ms. Lozano, 30, who works for Mark McKinnon, Mr. Bush's chief
media consultant, has insisted to FBI agents that she was mailing
a pair of pants, not the debate package.
Ms. Lozano, who goes by her middle name, could not be reached
Wednesday. Her attorney did not return calls for comment.
Public records show that Ms. Lozano � universally described as
"bright" by her former bosses�is a reliable Democratic voter.
She has rarely missed a chance to cast a ballot since registering
on the first day she was eligible � two months before her 18th
birthday.
Ms. Lozano has been an office administrator for Mr. McKinnon
since June 1999, and he has supported her explanation that she
was returning a pair of pants to the Gap.
He said she has worked as a baby sitter for his family since they
met in1990, when she was a volunteer on the first campaign of
Democratic Gov. Ann Richards. Mr. McKinnon did not return a
call for comment Wednesday.
Records show that Ms. Lozano graduated from Travis High School
in Austin in 1988, then attended the University of Texas from
1988 until 1992, when she stopped taking classes as a junior
majoring in Latin American studies.
Federal records show that in April 1996 and for the first three
months of 1997, she worked as a temporary employee for the
Internal Revenue Service in Austin, where her mother worked for
years as a clerk. Also:
�From January 1997 until June 1998, Ms. Lozano worked for Rep.
Vilma Luna, D-Corpus Christi. A series of memos in Ms.
Lozano's employment files at the Luna office documented disputes,
including an unpaid office bill that Ms. Lozano said she had
taken care of, and an unauthorized taking of leave, for which her
pay was docked.
Ms. Lozano was asked to resign after an incident in which she
told Ms. Luna that she had mailed certificates to graduating
seniors in Ms. Luna's district. A memo in her file says she had
not.
"Ms. Lozano called me at approximately 2 p.m. to 'come clean,'
and confirmed that she had not completed the task, and had in
fact made up the story she had told me and district office staff
regarding completion of the assignment," Ms. Luna wrote in a
memo the day she asked Ms. Lozano to leave.
� From March 1994 to August 1995, Ms. Lozano worked as an
administrative assistant in the border affairs division of the
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission. Agency documents
show that she was allowed to resign after supervisors discovered
that her files contained outstanding unpaid bills and six months
worth of unprocessed expense vouchers.
"Her explanations on the delays were not correct and at times
were elaborate fabrications," said a supervisor's memo explaining
her departure.
A letter to Ms. Lozano confirming her resignation noted that she
intended to study to be an attorney. A subsequent job
application listed her reason for leaving that job as "return to
school."
�From August to December 1993, campaign expenditure records show,
Ms. Lozano worked as a paid staff member for Ms. Richards'
re-election campaign. In subsequent job applications, she wrote
that she left to care "take care of ill mother," and "to pursue a
career in environmental issues."
"She may say she left to care for her sick mother. I recall we
asked her not to stay. I believe her work performance wasn't ...
wasn't good," said her supervisor, Dr. Ruth Potee, now a
physician in Boston.
In later job applications, Ms. Lozano said she was a "field
coordinator," that she supervised two employees and that she
"planned strategy" for the campaign.
"In no way was she a coordinator or a strategist. She answered
the phones, did clerical work for us," said Kirk Adams, Ms.
Richards' son-in-law and the person Ms. Lozano later listed as
her boss at the campaign.
Dr. Potee, also listed by Ms. Lozano as her supervisor, said
that Ms. Lozano's job was to work with county organizers, and
that she displayed an expertise in the sometimes Byzantine
politics of South Texas.
She said it would be difficult to envision Ms. Lozano taking the
initiative to swipe and mail the debate materials.
"Yvette is a very bright person. But, she is not a devious
person," she said.
� From December 1991 to August 1993, Ms. Lozano worked for the
Texas House, first for Rep. Lena Guerrero, D-Austin, then for
her successor, Democratic Rep. Glen Maxey.
"Yvette was a nice kid, a smart kid," said Ms. Guerrero, now an
Austin lobbyist who discounted the possibility of Ms. Lozano's
involvement in the debate mailing. "I can't picture her doing
that."
Mr. Maxey said that Ms. Lozano left his employment by "mutual
agreement." One of her duties, he said, was answering public
correspondence.
"When she left, we found a box of unanswered constituent mail,"
Mr. Maxey said.
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