Jackson Jambalaya

Huzzah! Tell me again why folks don't like this guy? He seems to working whereas many other state agencies are not.

Admission of fault in the misspending over the study.

Just getting ready to take on Filbert for gov!

Dang Shad are you crazy, have you bumped your head! You know nothing about fiscal unwritten ole boy policies! Put the money to good use by padding your donors and friends pockets with favors so they can enrich your retirement fund after you leave the public slop bucket. I do love your grit and grind Shad but this ain’t the way to go. Go to the Legislators and ask for some crazy $$$$$$$$ and they will give you more than you need, they think!

If he just wouldn't showboat about every little thing! Sure do your job! Get it done! Report it even! But stop bragging so much and slamming your fellow Republicans! He's not mature enough to be governor.

When all you do is go after the easy cases, you don't need as much money.

Shad’s office conducted a bunch of long audits of agencies and other governmental entities. They charged these agencies and other political subdivisions for the audits they conducted. With excess special funds from other areas of government, Shad can ask for a general fund cut. He didn’t reduce expenditures. He just pushed the costs onto other governmental entities. To Shad’s credit, though, a lot of agency heads that did the same thing would not ask for a general fund budget reduction.

So, in other words, if we handed his department a million dollars, he could not provide a return on that investment. All the fraud in the state has been caught.

What a joke to suggest that his agency "saved" money and is asking for less in his budget. As 3:42 points out, OSA charges agencies thousands of dollars for the audit work they do and they took most of an entire year to do it last year. They should be giving back more of their budget and not dragging out audits at the expense of other agencies under the guise of saving money.

His remarks smack of desperation politics. Someone please medicate him.

3:13pm : If he just wouldn't showboat about every little thing! Sure do your job! Get it done! Report it even! But stop bragging so much and slamming your fellow Republicans! He's not mature enough to be governor.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner. Well said, 3:13. I share the same opinions.

2:00, you asked why I and many other folks don't like this. Well, 3:13 just told you. And as for your question, the other state agencies are doing their jobs. They just don't feel the need to constantly tell you that they're doing what they're supposed to be doing or to constantly brag about doing their jobs like this little egomaniac does. Just do the job and shut up. I'm tired of Shad's constant "Look at me, look at me"

They are going to ban him from Ticos for life!

This is a shell game and con by Shad. OSA overbills State Agencies to fund Shad's empire. OSA charges 2-3 times what reputable, independent auditors charge. If he was about saving $$, OSA would return to outsourcing audits to trained firms for much less. OSA lost much of their experienced staff for a reason.

3:22, 6:16 and 7:15 (in no particular order) are today's winners!

When is anyone going to question the no-bid contracts that go to Horne?

Delbert reduced his budget by $1 mil for 5 years in a row.

It's not his money to begin with...once you've screwed the pooch (protecting Bryant) you can't politician you're way out of if Shad. If you were a true politician, you'd have screwed Bryant over and not the people, and likely won the Governorship.

Cut the budget. The real question might be is "How did this year's budget compare to last years actual."

Some of you are making it clear that you haven't kept up with State spending. Nor do you have any idea what happens to surplus in the budget.

How could anyone dislike what the Shadster is doing?