Stumbo Can't Stop Spending
Greg Stumbo can't stop spending your tax dollars.
First, by failing to do the administrative work required, he's cost taxpayers $240,000 by keeping the session going at least four days longer than necessary.
Next, despite a special session of the general assembly to address a $1 billion shortfall, he's grown government spending by over $1.3 billion:
Also, Stumbo said, thanks to more than $190 million a year the state is projected to collect from slots' net revenue, Kentucky could issue bonds to pay for $1.3 billion in school and university construction projects.
Now we learn that he's spending an additional $230,000 on office renovations:
The Kentucky House is spending about $230,000 to renovate new office space for lawmakers at the Capitol Annex, even as it meets in special session to discuss the state budget shortfall.
House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, authorized the project this year. It involves rebuilding, rewiring and adding new carpet to about 4,100 square feet on the Annex's third floor. Furniture and electronics costs have not been tallied.
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Lawmakers have forced most of the other occupants to move elsewhere in Frankfort, which costs $408,000 a year in rent paid to private landlords.
Why won't they just go home and stop spending our money?
