Grover Norquist will be speaking at the Tax Day Rally at the Capitol.
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Shot in the Dark
Cranking Open The Big Brass Nozzle Of Truth Since 2002
Why we need to have high taxes? Today’s St Paul paper…….lowest bidder on part of the St Croix bridge project (and a highly qualified construction firm)…was awarded the contract as they deserved it. Lowest bid, and highest score.
But some faceless, nameless fascist in the “Minnesota Dot Office of Civil Rights” (how many “office of civil rights exist in Minnesota and what do they cost hte taxpayers?) overturned the contract, and instead awarded to someone whose bid was $6,000,000 higher. Why? The winner could only find enough qualified minority contractors to cover 10% of the project, while the higher bidder said they could find enough minority owned contractors to cover 16% of the project, even if it means importing people from out-of-state.
This is why we need high taxes.
I would think that part of the qualifiications of a “qualified minority contractor” would include working at a competitive rate. It has to be assumed then that the successful bidder cut corners on the “qualified non-minority” contractors in order to overpay the “qualified minority contractors”. Somehow it seems that corner cutting and bridge construction shouldn’t be included in the same conversation.
Couldn’t we limit these fairness regulations to construction projects which do not involve defying gravity?
I hope Justice Lillehaug keeps an eye on this project when completed. The last poorly built bridge we had seemed to work out quite well for him.
Normally I frown upon fraud, but I have to give credit to the lady with dark skin who scammed the Central Corridor project. The project’s costs are inflated due to minority requirements. So she put in a high bid, but said she deserved it because she is a 2-fer. Black and female. Metropolitian Council (or whoever) said “sure”. We’ll pay extra to meet our skin color quotas.
Turns put she didn’t have a business. What she did was go to the losers (white male suppliers) and purchased the products at their standard prices (which they bid on), then had them delivered to the project at a very high additional markup.
She created a fake paper-only company. The white male owned companies still go the business, but the materials were funneled through the fake company to inflate the cost to the taxpayer, and make race hawks feel good about themselves.
Hmmm. I thought the sound of running water was louder than how the usual spring melt sounds. Turns out the additional noise (and volume) was from Liberal bed wetting over Grover Norquist stepping foot here in deep dingy depressingly blue Minnesocold.
Chuck, got a credible link for that information? That’s an amazing story and one I’d love to use. But I’ve been bitten too many times for using “this other guy said” stories.
Bill. There was one story about this in the St Paul paper. Maybe about a year ago. If this was a conservative scam, it would have been in the Mpls paper daily for weeks.
Not sure how to check on this, except to do a search on the Pioneer Press web site.
From MSP Business Journal:
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2011/10/central-corridor-inquiry-disqualifies.html
A contractor on the Central Corridor light rail project has lost its minority status after an investigation found it was merely rerouting materials for other firms.
The Star Tribune reports on the investigation that flushed out J-MOS, which won Central Corridor work under disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) status. But a government council found that J-MOS wasn’t doing the supplying itself, and the Metropolitan Council had been receiving complaints about J-MOS for years. Joan Johnson, owner of J-MOS, is appealing the decision.
COOL! Thanks for that one, Chuck!