Go on take a free ride!
State Representative and Joint Budget Committee member Kent Lambert provides a tremendous amount of information about the state budget and spending on his Web site.
COST enjoyed digging through a database on state government vehicles. According to the database, taxpayers have purchased 5534 vehicles over the course of many years. What’s interesting is that in the middle of the “worst recession since the Great Depression” Parole purchased over sixty 2009 hybrid sedans at a cost of more than $1million. COST wondered why. According to sources, apparently the new vehicles were for employees to ”ride share” to and from work.
COST will let taxpayers decide if that was a good use of their hard-earned money.