O'Malley Corruption and Environmental Alarmism All In One

Fellow Red Marylander Mark Newgent has done some fine investigative work regarding a horrendous environmental plan of the O'Malley administration. In short, the state is contracting its environmental policy to an organization with blatantly wrong statistical analysis and documented political motives.

You can see the full post here, or read the following conclusions:

Through the MCCC and CCS Governor O’Malley has:

-Outsourced formulation of state climate policy to a blatant advocacy group
(with ties to a campaign contributor positioned to take advantage of CCS policy recommendations) and alarmist funding sources;

-Loaded the commission’s working groups with people who have substantial
political and financial stakes in implementing CCS policy recommendations, creating serious conflicts of interests and ethical questions;

-Appointed a commission chair (Tad Aburn), who refuses to obey Maryland’s Public
Information Act, by not releasing public documents concerning CCS’s contract with the state, and its relationship to the formation of the MCCC. Aburn himself, ordered
the Maryland Department of Environment compliance officer to withhold the
documents. This is a delicious irony since O’Malley’s father-in-law, former Attorney General Joe Curran, wrote the book on the PIA;

-Set the stage to significantly increase the energy costs of working
families, further dampen the state's economy, and curtail individual
liberties.

A Promise Made Good

Yesterday I noted how House Speaker Busch calmly assured us, vis-a-vis a quote in The Capital, not to worry about the budget cuts as they won't effect our essential services. Look! Down the page!! Just a little bit lower than you are reading right now!!!

The Capital, immediately recognizing the damage they did to the Democrat Propaganda Strategy, immediately ran an article the NEXT DAY about how the budget horrors will affect those services.

Here are some quotes:

A state workers union said the cuts threaten services to the most vulnerable Marylanders, from those in foster care to those treated by emergency responders......

"We are stretched to the limit," said Pete Peterson, a helicopter pilot who flies medivac flights.

Pete Peterson. Pete Peterson!!!!! Did the propaganda machine spend any time coming up with this name? I mean, this is straight out of a comic book--a superhero, life-saving helicopter pilot named Pete Peterson. I, for one, would like to meet Mr. Peterson. I bet he has some cool stories, or at least some hippie parents.

Flo Jones, a foster care case manager, said "many of the state's most vulnerable children will be at risk" if the Board of Public Works approved cuts to the already "threadbare" agency.

Feeling suspicious, I took the time to verify that 'threadbare' is indeed a word. Although perhaps slightly misused, it is marginally sensible in the context of this sentence. Now to investigate this Flo Jones character.......

Then the governor chimed in:

We need to restrain spending, O'Malley said yesterday.....

.....handily forgetting how much money he has wasted.

And around and around we go.

O'Malley Corruption: Land Deal

I am not going to cite an article here, but if you want to find more info about this, click on www.omalleywatch.com.

Basically, here's what happened. The state decided it wanted to buy a piece of land for preservation. The land was officially appraised twice, the appraisals for $3.6 million and $4.6 million respectively. According to the Baltimore Sun, the state along with Quenne Anne's County paid a total of $5 million for it.

Why $400,000 higher than THE HIGHEST appraisal? Because the owner of the land was a member of the O'Malley transition team! Smell a rat?

A 29-year state employee, Nelson Riechart, pointed out that in cases of differering appraisals, the state pays the average of the 2, or $4.1 million in this case. When he stated this FACT, he was fired THE NEXT DAY!. But the governor's office says the two events had nothing in common, simply that they wanted to take the Mr. Riechart's department in a different direction.

I mean, come on. If you didn't think things were out of control already, you do now.