Hackorama
A question to everyone who voted for Deval Patrick looking for “change”:
Can you name even one example of positive change since he took office?
While I am awaiting your response, here is yet another negative change to add to the list:
Despite a slumping economy and looming budget crunch, Gov. Deval Patrick has hiked his office budget by an astonishing 80 percent, adding questionable new staff positions like “director of grassroots governance” and pumping millions into an extravagant “civic engagement” program.
“We know the governor had a goal of creating 100,000 new jobs in his first term, we just didn’t know he was going to create them all in the Corner Office,” said Sen. Michael Knapik (R-Westfield).
Added State Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham): “People in my district are asking, ‘What is this guy doing?’ They get 1 to 2 percent increases for their schools, and he gets almost 80 percent? How do you explain that?”
Patrick’s office budget has skyrocketed to $9 million this fiscal year, a boost of nearly $4 million from fiscal 2007, Republican lawmakers said. Much of the increase is due to a $3 million appropriation for Patrick’s new Commonwealth Corps, a volunteerism program aimed at promoting “civic engagement” across the state.
Don’t worry, I’m sure he’ll get around to lowering those property taxes eventually.
Together We Can … Increase Deval’s office budget by 80 % while the average citizen gets A 2% salary increase if they are lucky.
Archived in: Deval Patrick, Economy, Massachusetts, Property Taxes, TaxesMay 24, 2008 at 1:19 pm | Trackback
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The state citizenry keeps voting those same Donks back in office. One must believe they want Patrick to have that increase.
…Thus, the frustration of being a conservative in Massachusetts. I spent a half century’s worth of my life in that state and can testify to the socio/political environment that rooted itself in so pervasively that it ultimately strangled the loyal opposition.
I wish the rest of the country would examine what has become of Massachusetts and Vermont, and learn by example. All the “community” issues, the “green space” issues, the identity politics issues and the educational system seizures will wrap your throats if you let them.
Deval Patrick and the liberals surrounding him rode in on the given that the political opposition had been suffocated by the Democrats who always voted for D’s so they placed D’s after their names on the ballot too. I know a Massachusetts Liberal when I see one….but the Liberal Moonbats in power on Beacon Hill exponentially exceed the lumenpower of the common Massachusetts Liberal.
Michael Graham (WTKK, 96.9 FM, 9:00-12:00) has become an impassioned voice for the remaining Massachusetts conservatives and other non-political residents who are stuck in this spider web, worried and angry. He is headlong into talking up the State Income Tax repeal process, exhorting his listeners to stand up to the nonsense. His intent is to encourage everyone to vote for the repeal so that a voice vote would be necessary to overturn it…in which case he will encourage action to get those thusly identified voted out of office….and his listeners are calling in, appreciative of his effort.
Good job, Michael, I still listen to you even though I’m out of the state now!
Now, if we can just get the income tax repeal referendums going in the rest of the New England states that also have one now!
Smitty!….
…..Guess who’s here to buy some fish bait…(he-he-he)
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