AUGUSTA, Maine — Using rhetoric rarely heard in the Maine State House, Democrats accused the Republican administration of lying and covering up information about malfunctioning computers that resulted in as many as 19,000 people erroneously receiving MaineCare.
“It is time for the administration to first, take responsibility for their mismanagement and second, and most importantly, take responsibility for willfully misleading lawmakers,” Sen. Joseph Brannigan, D-Portland, said at a news conference while flanked by about two dozen Democratic lawmakers.
Brannigan also asked for an investigation by the Government Oversight Committee.
Republicans dismissed the attack, coming in an election year and as late-session tensions rise, as unfounded and partisan.
Brannigan accused officials in Gov. Paul LePage’s administration of concealing what they knew about the computers while the Legislature was considering a $120 million budget fix earlier this year. The budget included cuts in MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, which affected thousands of people.
During Appropriations Committee deliberations, Democrats questioned the administration’s numbers intensely and were given assurances that the figures supported the requests for cuts.
But it was early March, weeks after the questions were raised, that Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew acknowledged the glitch, attributed to the failure of a computer that pays bills to communicate with one that deals with eligibility.
“I use the word cover-up and I know people don’t like that, but the fact is someone knew information that should have been given to all the people on Appropriations,” said Brannigan, who also charged administration officials with “lying several times.”
Democrats acknowledged that DHHS computers have been plagued by problems since the previous administration of Democrat John Baldacci. But they said their main concern is that they weren’t told this time.
“Where else have we been misled?” said Rep. Linda Sanborn, D-Gorham.
Republicans distributed a time line showing that the computer billing systems began operating in September 2010 but staff soon learned that it was not operating correctly. According to the time line, Mayhew was told of a “systemic problem” in February 2012 and on March 1 she was given a detailed briefing that showed the potential impact.
Mayhew briefed legislative committees on March 6, the time line said. A phone and email message left for Mayhew was not immediately returned, but Republicans defended the commissioner’s actions amid difficult budget deliberations.
“My take on this is that they have just made an incredibly serious and extraordinarily outrageous allegation, charging that a cover-up exists without coming up with any tangible evidence to back it up,” said Sen. Richard Rosen of Bucksport, the GOP chairman of Appropriations, who sat through the news conference.
Rosen said the charges seem to call into question all of the work done by the committee to finish the budget. But he said that even if information about the computer problems had been known, “it wouldn’t have changed any of what we did.”
The charges threaten to sour the atmosphere as lawmakers continue making changes to the budget, which calls for additional cutbacks in MaineCare.
LePage’s reaction to the charges was muted.
“It’s a partisan political attack,” said his spokeswoman, Adrienne Bennett.
How can our legislators from either party come up with a budget for DHHS if the current administration cannot provide “true” numbers?????
Agreed. But what we’ve heard so far (among other items) was there was a known glitch for sometime (prior admin) … I think the AUDIT IS THE BEST course of action. I think accusations of cover-up by someone of Senator Brannigan’s stature do nothing towards solving the problem. If anything, it delays the solution and that helps none of our causes from any perspective.
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Democratic Sen. Joseph Brannigan of Portland – before you push too hard, you might want to find out which administration paid for/supervised the software development. My guess is, the prior Democratic administration. (1) As irritating as this problem is, these things come up when you build big systems like this. (2) I am quite sure the Republicans would not have willfully paid 19,000 people who were not entitled to payments.
I am an indy, so keep in mind, the cut works both ways. If you want an issue, you need to be smarter about selecting an issue. You have many fact based issues you could actually pursue if you focused your energies appropriately.
Republicans, you need to stay the course of building a sustainable budget. But when this stuff comes up, bad news is not like Scotch. It does not improve with age – something as predictably hot as this needs to be swiftly investigated and then released at the appropriate leadership level as early as possible. Generally, try and provide a short term solution to the problem and at least indicate a long term solution is being researched by people competent in the subject matter.
Legislators, stop wasting our time with these non-issues. Focus on the facts, work together to solve problems, and do our business ethically to benefit the people of Maine. That is all we ask.
The software was implemented in the last 3 months of the Baldacci administration. The problem was noticed immediately by Baldacci and DHHS. An URGENT CHANGE order was issued by Baldacci. That was 18 months ago. Either LePage and Mayhew are lying about when they became aware of the problem, or they are completely inept and in over their heads.
Could it be that part of the reason they were not aware of it was because they let go of a lot of the higher-ups at DHHS soon after taking over and in the process lost all that institutional knowledge?
@Spudman2 and @Aldin1 – you guys are both probably right. Because we let these elections become so contentious and we support our leaders being so aggressive with prior administrations’ leadership selectees by assuming they are almost criminals and not professionals trying to do a decent job we end up in theses messes.
All of us need to take a giant chill pill (on both sides of the aisle) and quit letting the national level party leaders whip us Mainers into something we are not. We Mainers are not like this by nature – so let’s all agree to quit being so roughshod with each other. I am guilty of some of this, too. I finally figured out it’s time to chill – for all of us.
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Baldacci and the people at DHHS wasted hundreds of millions and continuously screwed this system up for 8 years even to the point of denying there was ever a problem. Now it is the LePage administration that’s supposed fix it in a few months.
As far as releasing the “knowledgeable” staff at DHHS. These are the same people who couldn’t get it right in 8 years and a couple hundred million dollars. I’m sure if we gave them just one more chance they’d have gotten it right for an administration that they were hostile to [/sarcasm].
When the Republicans are voted out of Congress, I expect the Democratic majority to vote to give the people the power to IMPEACH LePage, or at least start a
Recall Paul campaign!!!
Loud applause !!!
You know the more I see from Mr. LePage and crew the more I’m beginning to think that this whole DHHS thing “wasn’t” initially about lying at all. It “was” all about incompetence and bullheadedness not to ask for help in an area that they either didn’t have knowledge about or simply cared so little about that they put forth minimal effort. “Now” that their incompetence has been exposed, it’s all about LYING and hoping that no one is able to pin the tail on the elephant or dump the Mad Hatter’s cup of tea. Check you’re backside Paul, I’m guessing there’s a pin sticking in it.
I think as a matter of practicality it’s always best to be skeptical of non-computer folks making definitive statements about systems they know nothing about. It becomes voodoo and creates a high profile mess like this.
Yet the clueless Baldacci administration couldn’t get it right in 8 years and a couple hundred million dollars. Yeah, it must be LePage and not the clueless state employees. maybe they should have come in on a few of those snow days and gotten some work done for a change.
There were no snow days for State employees this winter
Thanks to LePage. Baldacci called a snow day whenever flurries were forecast. Maybe if the drones could have gotten to work when it snowed like the rest of us they could have spent time doing their jobs checking on the progress being made on the computer system and not been surprised when it failed spectacularly. What are we overpaying these highly skilled, dedicated employees for if not to monitor a hundred million dollar project?
Do you mean the Maine Legislature?
You never really got over LePages victory when he became Governer ,why is that ?Their is no democrat majority and their wont be one either hopefully .Again you sound like a skipping record.You hear it for a while then you shut it off.You need to sing a new song that old one is worn out.Take a deep breath ,get a life and move on
How smart is it to re-structure a department that it isn’t known what the problems are , or where the answer’s lie without an audit and with a bad computer system?
I’m sure if we’d have given the same people who couldn’t get it right in 8 years and a couple hundred million dollars another few years they’d have gotten it right THIS time [/sarcasm]
why didn’t Mayhew just spill her guts when she learned of the problem?
As slow as Augusta is, LePage will get another term and be on his way by the time someone gets this sort of process started.
The only way to find out the truth is to have the DHHS audit that was proposed by the Democrats and voted down by the Republicans. The longer the republicans stonewall the audit the more skeptical the legislators and the people of Maine will become. Just do it!
The only viable alternative would be to have Charlie Webster do it and then tell us… (and then we not continue to look into it and ask questions.)
Heck we don’t even need Charlie Webster to do anything, including counting. He will come out and blame someone else and declare Mitt Romney the winner again. He won’t need to lift a finger.
Yep. I always say the more someone refuses to part with pertinent info, the more you ought to suspect him of dishonesty.
Remember…This is the State administration of Transparency!
Where were all of these concerned Democrats when Baldacci was p!$$ing away a couple hundered million on this system? Probably getting free massages at MSHA or picking up gift cards at MTA headquarters. Did Emily Cain just wake up from an 8 year nap or something? Shades of Rip Van Winkle.
A “sacred cow” died recently in Augusta. What “sacred cow” you say, DHHS. In the past administration you could not touch or look too hard at DHHS. That was forbidden. Now is the time for a true audit with the intention of doing something about the mess. The Democrats are insisting on this now, even. They are hoping that by now no one will look back to see exactly how we got into this mess in the first place. Hiring software companies with no experience in this field. Playing “fast and loose” with the federal Medicare rules etc. Time for action, get it aired out in time for the next election.
Why not just get it aired out, period? How about we put fixing the problem first and assigning the blame second? I agree that an audit is in order.
I don’t care which administration was responsible for installing the computer system. I only know which administration decided to withhold the information from me about the overpayments.
Who is withholding information? The reason we know about the computer glitch is that the administration came out and told people what had happened. It’s not as if someone had to convene a special committee to investigate this….
DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew admitted withholding the information from the MaineCare budget debate weeks ago when grilled during a public hearing. Based on media reports, it’s still not clear to me whether the administration “came forward,” as you suggest, or was exposed after someone tipped off a newspaper reporter. Mayhew also said that she took “full responsibility” for the withholding of that information, even though, curiously, she remains in office and collecting a pay check.
I’m sure part of the reason she’s still in office is that no one is crazy enough to take her place and work for this admin in that position. Remember, she originally took the position as a “favor” for LePage when LP couldn’t convince anyone else to take the job.
I wonder what ‘full responsibility’ means at the State level. If there is an indescretion will her salary be adjusted? Will she be asked to resign? Will she be demoted? She was aware of this issue during the budget hearings.
If Dale “free massage and gift card” McCormick is any indication, when one fails at their job in Augusta you get a six figure payoff and free health care for a year and a half. Only in government.
Wow, conjecture much? Because that is all you have. All the info you have has been spoon fed to you , no proof at all. The latest info we have is that Mary found out, looked at the numbers and announced them less than 6 day’s later.
” on March 1 she was given a detailed briefing that showed the potential impact.
Mayhew briefed legislative committees on March 6″, now ask yourself why would she cover up something that supported her side of the issues being debated, that would not change things in favor of the Lib’s and had nothing to do with her adim, all on the previous admin?
Ask yourself why we are hearing this today from Senator Joe Brannigan. maybe something to do with this
-“”We were shocked to see, of all people, Senator Joe Brannigan at a
press conference attempting to support the Maine Democrats wild-eyed
cover-up conspiracy theory about DHHS,” GOP Chairman Charlie Webster
said. “The fact that Brannigan never publicly disclosed that he was
cashing in on taxpayer funding of Shalom House by DHHS while he was
chairing the Appropriations and Health & Human Services committees –
essentially voting to secretly pay himself with tax dollars – is the
real cover up.”
A January 2012
report by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting revealed that
Shalom House received $98 million in state funding while Brannigan was
chair of the Health and Human Services & Appropriations Committee.
The same report
also indicated that Brenda Harvey, former DHHS commissioner under Gov.
Baldacci, was also benefiting from funding from the state. Harvey’s
husband David Lawlor ran Mobius Inc., which received more than $15
million in state funding while she was commissioner. This income was
also not disclosed by Harvey during her time as Commissioner under
Baldacci and the Democratic majority.
“If there is one
thing I could say about Senator Brannigan, it’s that he really has some
nerve,” said Mike Quatrano, executive director of the Maine Republican
party. “It’s hard to believe that the press and the Maine Democratic
party would think Brannigan’s statements could even pass the straight
face test
I’m not sure what you consider to be conjecture in my post, but you’re right, I was “spoonfed” information about the overpayment issue — by DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew. She herself has said that she found out about the overpayments in January, hardly six days before she acknowledged them to the public and before the MaineCare budget debate. Are you saying I should not believe her? Do you have better information than Ms. Mayhew herself about when she learned about the overpayments? I can’t comment on the other information — hmm, conjecture? — that you provide, since I’ve not read the report(s) you ostensibly quote. But I am curious: How do those allegations make it OK for Mayhew and LePage to have withheld the overpayment of millions of dollars while at the same arguing that the state could not offer to keep people enrolled in MaineCare?
First, show me the quotes where Mayhew say’s what you stated, that she knew the details and the extent of this problem in January . We knew there were issues with this Baldacci nightmare, but I can see no where, other that the Lib talking points, lies and oft used conjecture , that the over billing of these 19000 was “known” .
“OK for Mayhew and LePage to have withheld the overpayment of millions of
dollars while at the same arguing that the state could not offer to
keep people enrolled in MaineCare? ”
So the fact that he Dem’s had people enrolled in the program that shouldn’t have been , some how would have helped their case? That the fact that we would more than likely have to repay huge amounts to the Fed would some how have bolstered the Lib’s case? Work that out in your head and get back to me.
As for the other points I made, They are the reason this “story” is in the BDN today, more cover up and distractions.I’m sure you and the BDN will but all appropriate effort into investigating these charges. Both these charges have been succesfully ingnored so far, why expect anything different.
All for not, Me think’s. I bet this story that we are commenting on will be closed for comment or buried all together by morning.
Portland Press Herald, 3/7/12:
Mayhew “was being questioned about the MaineCare budget in January, but didn’t feel she had enough information to raise the computer issue with legislators, she said Wednesday.”
WCSH, 3/9/12:
Mayhew “apologized to legislators on the committee for not telling them of the problem as soon as she learned of it in January. “In retrospect,” said Mayhew, “when I was made aware of the concern and issue relating to eligibility I should have brought it to your attention.”
Sun-Journal, 3/9/12:
AUGUSTA — Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew acknowledged Friday that she should have told lawmakers sooner about a computer problem that allowed 19,000 ineligible Mainers to receive Medicaid benefits.
Mayhew told the Legislature’s budget-writing committee that program directors and a departmental steering committee had been made aware of the computer malfunction last year. However, she said, the problem didn’t make its way to her office until late January.
There are numerous other similar reports. Mayhew does not deny that she knew about this issue prior to the MaineCare debate.
Nice, so they got Mary to admit that she knew there was an issue with this in late January, that’s when she was first notified that something was wrong with this Comp. program and this enrollment issue. So the best you have is that she was told that the flawed program (known by all)had another flaw and with no details or particulars about it’s scope, without her looking into the issue, , she should have run to the legislature and told them what she sorta kinda knew. In your hate for Mary and Our Governor you would hang her from the highest tree for not reporting/responding to a problem created by her predecessor and the Lib’s. Nice, Cause I’m sure no one at DHHS would ever keep info from their new boss, who they hate, or down play the info that they gave. Yup, Blame Mary and not the crooks who preceded her.
Apparently denial is not just a river in Egypt.
No, it’s the Dems failure to own up to the 8 year reign of incompetence by the Baldacci administration.
It wasn’t a newspaper reporter I ‘tipped off’. It was DHHS and the legislature.
That does not answer the question. So you told someone in DHHS and the Legislature. How did the media get wind of it? I find it hard to believe that the administration would voluntarily admit the problem to reporters after concealing its existence.
why was the information withheld for so long?
We knew long before the election that the computer system had problems. The administration that installed it told us. The new administration hid the numbers from the legislative body that was responsible for the budget so that an artificially low budget would be adopted and then a “catastrophe” could be declared. Political parties are killing us.
There was period of time when Maine had attempted to update an antiquated system on the advice of experts in the field who had existing consulting contracts with Maine.
They were wrong and when Maine eventually accepted there was no way to fix it, it bit the bullet and scrapped the old system for the expensive new one. The updated old system had no back up and even now the two are still incapable of interfacing, as I understand it.
It’s a mess that actually predates John Baldacci, at least partially. He did what he thought was required to comply with the Federal mandate short of buying a fancy new computer. Unfortunately, it didn’t work.
I happen to believe that there is some liability to be found on the part of the so called industry ‘experts’ who secured the low bid by trying to cut a corner.
Maine is not the only state who’s had questionable experiences complying with the mandatory new Federal guidelines in order to receive the highest percentage of funding available to states.
These companies are the experts and have rather ‘cornered the market’, as it were. It’s what they do.
I don’t disagree that the computer system was a mess, but the point of all of this is that PLeP and his haunchos sat on the numbers while the Legislature was deliberating the DHHS budget. I happen to believe that they did it on purpose to deliberately underfund the dept. which may not be correct, but it is a fact recognized by the Commissioner herself that she knew and said nothing, and later said she should have given them the facts. I have a friend in the dept. and I have known about computer problems for a long time. It appears that the state received extremely poor service from the business they hired. Go figure,
Apparently you’ve missed my other posts on this subject which began prior to and in anticipation of the budget session.
The point I have been emphasizing all along is that it is not credible that Mayhew didn’t know about these problems, unless she was living under a rock. Everybody who’s had anything to do with Maine Care has known for years there were longstanding and ongoing computer issues.
She has been there for a year and should have passed along information about the 19,000 ineligibles sooner, rather than almost allow legislatures to go in unarmed with the correct information.
What I have also tried to do is give some clarity as to how we got here, in the first place.
It didn’t start with John Baldacci and was not kept secret from the incoming administration.
I’m sorry if I appeared to be disagreeing with the substance of your post. I agree substantially with you, but I thought I was clarifying my posts. Maybe we have beaten this enough.
Those dedicated, hard working public employees are responsible for writing the RFP, managing the contracts, and ensuring compliance and performance. THEY are the ones who are responsible for making sure the system is done right. If not, then what are we overpaying them for? We could just hire a couple of clerks to cut checks and let the IT professionals go. Maybe they should have braved the snow like the rest of us and got some work done on those paid snow days the Baldacci regime never tired of calling. Seems like they had plenty of work that needed to get done.
what about UCB? a few snowflakes fall and school is cancelled? THe courts are closed a lot on snow days
Notice a connection? They’re all government entities. Work is the last priority. Judging that the work they do is so unimportant that a few snow flakes shuts them down we could do without about half of them.
The real problem here is that the budget computer glitch, no matter how severe, is but a little speedbump to these baggers with an ideological agenda. The issues important to them have little to do with “balancing the budget”. They are bent on destroying unions along with public education and rolling back worker”s rights. Look at other bagger-led states to see the future. Their priority is to funnel as much wealth to their corporate backers while shamelessly promoting themselves as doing what is best for Maine. They will wheel, deal and steal behind the scenes while garnering as much power as they can to try and hide what they are actually doing which is enriching themselves and their cronies. Nepotism, crudeness and secrecy is just the tip of this iceberg. In one short year we have been made the laughingstock of the nation. Only until we take back control will we be able to see the true extent of the damage this administration has undertaken in the names of its out of state handlers. The first step back from this darkness will happen in November.
Good luck with this. You might want to look around you. Obama Care is burning, Obama is caught on mic making deals with the Russians, every week we find another scheme the Lib’s have perpetrating on the state Taxpayer(MSHA/Dale McCormick/Carbon Credits/DHHS) ,what will be next? Do you really think the Electorate is going to buy your garbage ?
The Baldacci administration was the first administration to withhold information regarding the failure of the computer system(s). The democrats are trying so hard to blame all thier failings on the current administration when in fact they should look towards themselves for these problems.
So we’re supposed to believe that the Lepage administration would cover up for Baldacci?
That’s the rub of all of this,and you nailed it. This problem is completely owned by the Dem’s, The Lib’s raised a ruckus saying the numbers they were given were overblown and exaggerated. They cried foul and stomped their feet and demanded a full accounting. Now that this issue has been sorted, it makes the original problem ,that they denied existed, much greater than what was initially offered. So, obviously , the R’s thought it would be best to hold back information, that supported their contentions , and to protect the fine reputation of our former Governor at the same time. Brilliant.
No, they didn’t withhold information. I remember hearing all about it during the last days of the Baldacci Admn, right after it happened.
You heard that there were problems and that they had a plan to try to band aide it, you never heard that they knew the full scope of the problem, or that this particular billing issue was known, or that they conveyed all that they knew about the problem to the current administration.
Have you asked yourself why Mayhew would hold back info that supported her contentions , that were no fault of her own in any way, and could be laid at the feet of her detractors? Have you thought this thru, at all?
Hate to say it folks, but this was going on long before LePage was in office!
Yeah, and they told us about it.
The audit should show us that. Doesn’t mean it was the previous admin’s fault. Some of us think they were bilked by an incompetent IT company….. probably the low bidder.
Boy those public employees are less qualified than even I thought. The poor dears were bilked by a consultant. What are we overpaying all of these state government IT drones for anyway?
Let’s just for conversations sake, say that it was; they knew about it, why didn’t they keep an eye on the computer system? This is just an exercise in irresponsibility all around by this executive, and he’s trying to slam through a re-structure, without an audit and with a bad computer system. How smart is that?
Time for an “OverSight Committee”, selected by the GOP!
It’s time for Augusta to FIX the problem! Not worry about re-elections!!
Why hasn’t BDN done an investigative article about the private Information Technology and Health Care Reform companies used, not only in Maine, but in other states as well, in support of the Federal mandate to update and streamline payments and reimbursements with expensive new computer systems in exchange for the highest percentages of federal funding to individual states?
I have provided places to look in past article responses, but so far no reports from BDN.
The two (old vs new )incompatible computer systems and CNSI (ie Enterprise Information Systems), extended consultant contracts, the MMIS system, and Unisys, and Molina are just a few leads.
Do your stuff, BDN! I’m not a journalist.
The BDN knows that if they investigate this it’ll point straight to Baldacci and the public employees in charge of implementing the system. There is no way they ever implicate their boy Baldacci. This one will stay entombed along with the “missing” hundreds of millions at DHHS (also during the Baldacci regime).
As much as I’d like to blame it all on the GOP, the billing situation is a sytems failure that has been brewing for some time. Did Mayhew hide facts when cuts were being debated? Likely, and this is simply not acceptable!
Investigate this and shine a light on it. This type of executive laziness will cost Maine taxpayers plenty.
Investigate and shine some light on Joe Brannigan, seems he has some issues to deal with. But I’m sure you and the BDN will skip this issue.
Huh, Joe Brannigan seems to have a problem with more than $15 million in state funding he offered up to himself and Shalom House(he was the director). You would think he might want to sit down and keep quiet. “We were shocked to see, of all people, Senator Joe Brannigan at a
press conference attempting to support the Maine Democrats wild-eyed
cover-up conspiracy theory about DHHS,” GOP Chairman Charlie Webster
said. “The fact that Brannigan never publicly disclosed that he was
cashing in on taxpayer funding of Shalom House by DHHS while he was
chairing the Appropriations and Health & Human Services committees –
essentially voting to secretly pay himself with tax dollars – is the
real cover up.”
“A January 2012 report by the Maine Center for Public Interest
Reporting revealed that Shalom House received $98 million in state
funding while Brannigan was chair of the Health and Human Services &
Appropriations Committee.”
I am now feeling so cheated after having 38 years of totally honest, uncorrupted, Democratic rule in this state, and now I have to deal with these leaches in power now. They are systematically dismantling the safety net for our weak and vulnerable that our Democrats worked so hard to put in place. They are making it all but impossible for the less than fortunate that live out of state to come here and be able to have a helping hand extended to them after their benefits run out elsewhere. This LePage dude is doing a great job at dismantling every requirement that the Dems “fought” for mandating certain coverages that health insurance companies were obligated to provide if they were going to do business in Maine. Fortunately that caused all but 2 major health care companies to cut and run. I’m sure they weren’t worthy anyway. I guess by having just 2 major providers, its easier to keep an eye on them and the 30 percent inflated rates they charge us because they don’t have any competition to worry about. Now that LePage is frigging this whole health insurance thing up, those greedy bastards can charge whatever they want to now. Especially when other companies move in on the action. Who knows, we may end up paying the same premiums they pay in New Hampshire. God forbid. And whats up with him and freedom of speech? An honest, hard working, well intended artist can’t even sell a piece of art any more for the fear someone might not want to look at it anymore. Guess my first amendment rights don’t mean anything anymore, even if I profit from the transaction. Damn right wingers just don’t get it. I’m trying to get a message across here. Hard to do when I don’t have all my devices available to me. I know I have the education system, the media, Cumberland and York county, most coastal communities, Orono, and almost half of the state government locked down to help me with my message, but I guess I can’t rely on keeping my artwork hung up in the future if I locked an art sale down with the state. And whats up with Lepage supporting this landfill thing up in Millinocket. Total B.S. We shouldn’t be saddled with a #265,000 bill of goods on this one. We’ve already been saddled with a $35 million dollar white elephant that Baldacci brokered for us. At least Cassella is getting rich.
” Computer failure ” is the new ” The dog ate my homework” .
To the Democrats: “I think thee doth protest too much”.
Will someone seriously get to the bottom of this crap? I would love to know who I should be ticked off at because I know that they are going to get away with it anyway… And then can we finally make people actually accountable for screwing up? There are lots of people that should be put away in politics on both sides of the isle, kids. They only get away with it because they go into business as lobbyists later and then play us for fools against each other. They are dividing and conquering all the way to the bank -that does the same thing. We are all in this together.