Thursday, August 05, 2010

Lost and Found

Heh.

A conservative government watchdog group in May requested records on the contract. The department’s attorney said in an e-mail July 28 that officials had searched for the file with letters for more than two months and that it could not be found.

On Wednesday, after being questioned by The Associated Press, Department of Commerce Deputy Secretary Zach Brandon said the file was discovered July 29. He e-mailed the file later Wednesday to the AP and Citizens for Responsible Government. The Milwaukee-based group had sent a letter to the department Tuesday threatening legal action.

“As we’ve seen in the past and as continues in the future, citizens have to threaten legal action before they get any substantive action,” said CRG executive director Chris Kliesmet. “I think it’s an unfortunate statement about the state of politics in Wisconsin, that citizens have to threaten to sue.”

Brandon said the threat of legal action did not spur the department to act. He said the department promptly acknowledged getting the initial request, immediately began retrieving the documents and admitted one file was missing.

Uh huh.  Suuuuuuuure the threat of legal action and call from the AP had nothing to do with suddenly “finding” the documents.

(1) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0755 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Not even out of the barn on this project and the deception is already kicking in. All bidding documents in regards to state contracts are handled and can be viewed in digital format how do you loose this info under a stack of other papers.

    So the only documentation the state has in regards to a 40 million dollar contract is floating around, tossed to the side buried under someones messy desk?
    If it was on paper format dont you think something of this magnitude would deserve its own manila folder, maybe even a small space in a file cabinet.
    At this rate the 810 million should will go mighty fast.

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