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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Strickland scolds agencies on eating out

A week before he unveils his first two-year budget, Gov. Ted Strickland today released a list of spending by 76 state agencies and commissions.

"It is troubling that such a large amount was spent over the last two years, even as we face such a difficult budget environment and our state faces such great needs in education, job creation and healthcare," Strickland said in a prepared statement.

Keith Dailey, Strickland's spokesman, said the governor has ordered an immediate, temporary freeze on meals and local seminars upon discovering nearly $4 million was spent during the past 20 months, half of it by eight departments.

Read Strickland's announcement here:

An Excel file detailing agency-by-agency spending is here:

A cheatsheet translating state departments is here:

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3 Comments:

at 11:23 PM, March 06, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

excellent work ted finding all this wasted republican tax monies

the seminars, retreats, continuing ed and freemeals needs to stop on thelocal, state and national level

 
at 6:58 PM, March 07, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Democratic State employees,who are fat as heck, must be mad as heck at their newly elected Governor.

 
at 8:10 PM, March 08, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmmmm... state employees attending a meeting in Columbus are on their own for lunch. I wonder if Ted pays for his own lunches out of pocket when he himself travels.

Just wondering. No political agenda here. I've just always expected people to live the way they require others to do so.

 
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