Kudos to the Birkett team for the funnest headline I’ve seen yet:
?Today’s shocking report on the utter incompetence, corruption and waste in the Rod Blagojevich administration will go down in Illinois history as the ?Magna Carta of Mismanagement.?
The Auditor General of his own party lays out in graphic detail how the Rod Blagojevich administration has wasted millions of dollars in taxpayer money by favoring friends and contributors and ignoring laws and rules in place to protect citizens from this very abuse.
Rod Blagojevich said he was going to clean up state government. This report demonstrates he has done the opposite. Attorney General Madigan and other prosecuting agencies ought to examine closely the allegations in this report for any criminal wrongdoing.
And every taxpayer in the state ought to read it so they can see with their own eyes the absolute fiction Rod Blagojevich is peddling when he says he is changing the way we do business in Springfield.?
I’m not a Birkett fan, but everything in there is fair.
Just Ugly. Central Management Services (CMS) and the Auditor General
To summarize, an audit of centralized purchasing in Illinois under Central Management Services (CMS), which consolidated the purchasing of numerous state agencies in Illinois, meant less following of the law for less savings than advertised (actually 3…