SPIN THEM RIGHT OUT
Two DuPage Forest Preserve Districts employees are fired for possible mis use of taxpayer funds and the District compounds this matter by squandering $66,000 in additional funds to hire two public relations firms to "spin" this latest scandal away (Daily Herald, November 24, 2011). Its very appropriate therefore, that the larger of the two no bid PR contracts went to a politically connected firm with the dubious name of Reverse Spin, LLC.
Since my tax dollars are being used to pay for this needless spinning, I'm going to give the DuPage Forest Preserve District some free advise.
First: implement common sense procedures and develop a public service culture to prevent corruption in the first place
Second: Don't compound alleged wrongdoing to using my hard earned tax dollars to paper over these shenanigans with spin, or Reverse Spin, in this case.
Forest Preserve spokesman Bill Weidner, defended the $66,000 in outside PR consulting contracts in addition to a 6 person PR staff costing $400,000 annually, by saying that with their "intensely busy environment....they could go on and on and on". When it comes to wasting our precious tax dollars they sure can and they sure do.
DuPage voters are well served by the Daily Herald's use of the Freedom of Information Act to ferret out the details of this episode in public waste and mismanagement. Maybe its time for these same voters to spin the DuPage Forest Preserve District incumbents right out of office.
Originally published in the Daily Herald, December 3, 2011
Since my tax dollars are being used to pay for this needless spinning, I'm going to give the DuPage Forest Preserve District some free advise.
First: implement common sense procedures and develop a public service culture to prevent corruption in the first place
Second: Don't compound alleged wrongdoing to using my hard earned tax dollars to paper over these shenanigans with spin, or Reverse Spin, in this case.
Forest Preserve spokesman Bill Weidner, defended the $66,000 in outside PR consulting contracts in addition to a 6 person PR staff costing $400,000 annually, by saying that with their "intensely busy environment....they could go on and on and on". When it comes to wasting our precious tax dollars they sure can and they sure do.
DuPage voters are well served by the Daily Herald's use of the Freedom of Information Act to ferret out the details of this episode in public waste and mismanagement. Maybe its time for these same voters to spin the DuPage Forest Preserve District incumbents right out of office.
Originally published in the Daily Herald, December 3, 2011
posted by Walt Zlotow at 4:02 AM
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