Sunday, August 2, 2009

Governor Doyle misses the mark....again.

Governor Doyle traveled to Minnesota and proclaimed he was going to save the state MILLIONS of dollars. Seems it's not exactly that much. How about $74,000 so far.

Four months after Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Republican Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty released a plan outlining areas where the border states could work together, many of the ideas have been scrapped as unworkable, delayed or are still being worked out.

The governors originally put the savings at $10 million apiece, but Doyle's office estimated Wisconsin's savings to date at just $74,313, mainly from getting a better price on software from a Minnesota contract and piggybacking on a Minnesota transportation study. Pawlenty's office refused to offer a comparable estimate, but of 17 Minnesota agencies surveyed by the AP, only the Revenue Department quantified a benefit from the collaboration: $2,565.88 in outstanding debt collected from Wisconsin tax refunds. Most others said they anticipated savings but couldn't say how much.
Guess you just can't believe anything that comes out of his mouth.

Here's the rest of the story. (Notice that this is the Chicago Tribune...don't hold your breath waiting to see this in the Journal Sentinel.)

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