Government transparency…or lack thereof
In connection with last night’s interview with Randy Kuhl, WHAM’s Evan Dawson has a terrific piece on how difficult it was for him to get at the information about how much the trip costs. He was sent to three different agencies, then told that the info was filed but that he’d have to pick it up in person…in DC. He eventually had a friend in DC go to pick it up and, lo and behold, it wasn’t there after all. Our tech capabilities don’t allow us to embed the video from WHAM 13 but you can watch it over at F29th.
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Holy crap! Did you guys see where Kuhl compared himself to Santa Claus at about 1:30 of the full interview? This from the man who now opposes pork since Bush has tried to make a stand on it.
Ridiculous…
[...] We told you earlier about Channel 13’s yeoman efforts at getting a hold of expense reports for Kuhl’s trip to Brazil. The Kuhl people have responded, to a certain extent. Here’s the expense report. The one problem is that the cost of the airplane flights themselves is just given as “military aircraft.” From what I’ve heard, that’s the most expensive part of the trip by far. I’ve heard figures of over 10K per person in costs for that alone. (I don’t know how accurate that is.) [...]
[...] thing in the world? No, but details do matter and Kuhl has played loose with them on energy and ethanol specifically [...]