Thursday, May 07, 2009

Ordinans Lied

She admits what we all knew... they voted to loot the taxpayers to line the pockets of their friends and themselves and they did so with full knowledge. 

Former Milwaukee County Board Chairman Karen Ordinans admitted Thursday she learned the backdrop pension benefit was not cost neutral before voting for the 2000-’01 wage and benefit package for the county’s largest union.

Ordinans acknowledged she had previously said the opposite – in sworn depositions, pre-trial testimony and numerous media interviews.

“I wasn’t even thinking of that as a cost,” when asked the question earlier, Ordinans said in testimony in the Milwaukee County pension scandal trial.

She also said she didn’t recall telling other elected supervisors, before they voted, what she had learned from then-Human Resources Director Gary Dobbert, who had previously told her the backdrop would be cost neutral.

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2117 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. This is one of the problems of our “talent” drain in Milwaukee government whether it be the city council, country board or MPS.  You get a government loaded with well meaning but not very bright people.  People with no experience in the real world nor any long-term perspective. 

    I can totally see this board in year 2000 being told by Ament that the stock market will keep going up at 15-30% per year in the new internet era and that with that bounty, county workers should be able to double or triple their retirements. 

    Sykes made a great point yesterday about how all these County people knew/know down a penny what their retirement benefits will be.  They knew this plan would bestow a whole new era of lavish benefits.  But I think they just naively assumed that the stock market would keep going up forever.  You had no adult in the room to remind them that what the market giveth the market taketh away.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 08, 2009 at 0736 hrs


  2. You get a government loaded with well meaning but not very bright people

    That’s a rather naive point of view. Government officials know exactly what they are doing, and they do not care what the consequences are for others so long as the outcome is positive for themselves.  No lie is too bold, no action too brazen if it lines the pockets or helps get re-elected.

    The “talent” drain is because decent people who want to help others know that government is not the place to do it.  Ever notice that only politicians call what they do “public service”?  Real servants of the public know better.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 08, 2009 at 0850 hrs


  3. Throw her sorry as in jail.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 08, 2009 at 1118 hrs


  4. That’s “ass”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 08, 2009 at 1118 hrs


  5. I was in the Jury Pool for this trial and was dismissed.  I would have loved to have been on this trial and discussing this in the deliberation room.  Her testimony is HUGE.  I would like to see her face consequences for her “change in her story.”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 08, 2009 at 2058 hrs


  6. Perjury

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 09, 2009 at 1051 hrs


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