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Steal the message, then kill the messenger

by: Jason Springer

Thu May 27, 2010 at 01:45:00 PM EDT



I've been writing about the monumentally short sighted decision to get rid of the State Commission on Investigation and fold it into the Executive Branch. How's this for an odd twist.

If you remember right after the Governor was elected, he made a big deal and rightfully so, about obscene compensation at boards and commissions singling out the Passaic Valley Commission. He got that opportunity when the information was released in the SCI report in December 2009.

I guess the idea is steal the message and then kill the messenger. If the ideas were good enough to take, then the department should be worthy enough of being spared from the budget ax and the potential for political influence. Legislators need to start speaking up and put a stop to this misguided plan.

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PVC is a fiscal black hole (0.00 / 0)
I once served as a municpal councilwoman and our greatest problem around budget time was the onerous fees to the PVC.  There was a City Council representative to the PVC and my members always fought to see who could get the appointment because they were paid per meeting.  Every year the fees went up.

Now I see the Governor is pushing for one of his cronies to be appointed to this Commission.  What are the salaries and more importantly what exactly do they do?


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