Guest Post by “Fed Up”
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Corey Stewart has been caught again playing fast and loose with taxpayers’ dollars, despite his best efforts to conceal another boondoggle. Buried deep in a staff report (http://www.pwcgov.org/documents/bocs/agendas/2010/0803/8-A.pdf) on the carryover budget (page 8 of a 54 page document), considered by the Board the same day his scheming with the Avendale development was distracting everyone, and abetted by the inability of his own staff and the local media to perform elementary school arithmetic, Stewart slipped through nearly a million dollars in additional taxpayer money for the Supervisors’ offices.
From the “News & Messenger” on August 15,
“The budget item was passed as part of a much larger carryover budget, in which items from the previous fiscal year get carried over to the new fiscal year. According to county spokesman Jason Grant, the $712,000 increase should have been included in the fiscal 2011 budget process, but was accidentally omitted.”
Should have been included in fiscal 2011 budget process? Ya think? Then why not consider it as a separate budget item at the August 3 meeting rather than burying it in the staff report on the carryover?
Supposedly the combat troops stationed in Iraq have left. Supposedly we won. Will there be ticker tape parades? Will there be kissing and wild excitement in Times Square? Hell no. The story is barely a blip on the radar. 50,000 troops remain in a non-combat role. Does that mean they are sitting ducks? Do they have rubber bullets?