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CMS director-in-waiting Paul Campbell, who was a recipient of a questionable expense by a CMS contractor, just told reporters that the auditor general’s report gives the agency an opportunity to highlight the great things that CMS has accomplished.

From the beginning, the CMS honchos should have just kept their mouths shut, taken the punishment and then promised to do better. Instead, they’ve acted like complete buffoons, and whatever credibility they had left (which wasn’t much) has been vaporized.

Can’t anybody play this game?

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 4:52 pm

Comments

May their house of cards crumble!!!

Let’s see him try the “reformer” image next time around,, I bet there will be plenty of headlines to make nice commercials refuting him next go round.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 5:04 pm
Here’s a thought. If Lisa Madigan can make hay out of this, does this set her up for a run for gov?

If Pat Fitzgerald makes hay out of this does it set him up to run for gov?

Comment by OneMan Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 5:06 pm
This audit validates the constant and consistant complaints about the ROD BLAGOyeVICH administration.

Blago and his team are completly inept and as evidenced by their response, COMPLETELY arrogant! Who will be thrown under the bus for this one??

The report detailed that the sub contractors (AND even subcontractors of subcontractors) Were NEVER disclosed as required by LAW!

Rich, please trace the money trail!!! I am sure that you will find that of the $millions$ paid to the subcontractors a portion of those tax dollars went back into BLAGO’s $10 Million dollar war chest!$

Comment by larry Mullholland Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 5:29 pm
Does anyone out there know where Paul Campbell came from?

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 6:03 pm
In Director Rumman’s “bye bye” memo, he related that Paul Campbell was a “Special Investigator”. Didn’t say for whom or what he investigated but he didn’t learn much from others mistakes, evidently. Big error on his part this time it looks like.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 6:13 pm
This will only be used as an excuse to redistribute power. And I am sure someone else’s cronies will gain in the resulting “re-org”

Let’s send them more tax money.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 6:59 pm
My bet is that the agencies will shoulder the blame on this one. CMS was trying to save money, but the agencies (particularly the smaller agencies) made things difficult.

Agency consolidation is on its way.

Comment by Ricky Rackman Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 7:05 pm
Ricky Rackman said…
My bet is that the agencies will shoulder the blame on this one. CMS was trying to save money, but the agencies (particularly the smaller agencies) made things difficult.

Ricky is that your take or is that your take on what you think CMS will say?

I’ll tell you, I’d pay $$$ for Holland to come to every State agency and see the documentation Fiscal departments kept when CMS was demanding money from all these (cough, choke, gag) savings. Agencies had no choice but to pay. The Auditor should go even further with this investigation by doing this.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 7:26 pm
Maybe Holland is one of the protectors of the status quo. We know what happens when you mess with things in Government. Government has not been great for awhile. Tough start for Campbell, is he qualified for the job?

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 7:44 pm
To the last anonymous poster- “Maybe Holland is one of the protectors of the status quo. We know what happens when you mess with things in Government. Government has not been great for awhile. Tough start for Campbell, is he qualified for the job?

Do you see black helicopters over your house at night, as well? Come on man, wake up, smell the sickly odor coming out of (this Governor’s hand picked) CMS office! It is NOT “government as usual”- just “Blago’s view of how government should function- “It’s our turn”!!

Comment by Roy Slade Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 8:34 pm
Okay Rich, trying to find the great things CMS has accomplished is SO much more difficult than trying to write positive things that the Governor has done in his first two years.

I believe if they dig deeper they will get to the agencies and how facilities have had to cough up parts of their budgets without asking questions and without ever finding out where the money went. CMS double dipped on car repairs, okay charged additional 20-25% on every repair just for processing. Uh, why? That’s what they are supposed to do, they shouldn’t be taking agency money to do it. Let them dig more. They’ll see CMS was messing more with agency budgets than they initially thought and were causing more problems at a local level.

Are you sure Campbell is going to be director or is he going to be the temporary one in charge until the position is filled?

I’m not going to hold my breath that they (CMS or the Governor and his people) are to recover one penny of the money that was spent incorrectly. It’s gone.

Comment by Tessa Tuesday, Apr 26, 05 @ 8:34 pm