Rendell’s $1B No Bid Contracts: Leach Groen Rendell Turzai Orie
March 29th, 2008 | by BGuzzardi |Daylin Leach has been a long time defender of Governor Ed Rendell’s policies and is an ally and probably will be receiving support from Rendell and certainly from Marcel Groen, another very, very close supporter of the Governor’s.
Check out the article: No-bid contract criticism spreads
Key Phras ”House Minority Policy Chairman Mike Turzai, R-Bradford Woods, Allegheny County, said legislation is being written that would prevent Rendell, and future governors, from doling out high-priced contracts greater than $100,000 without greater scrutiny.”
Note from Bob: Representative Turzai has been in the House since 2001 and didn’t notice a billion dollars, $1,000,000,000, in contracts going out the door? Can we trust these guys with the $61.3 billion dollar budget, 12% of the State Domestic Product? Senator Jane Orie, a member of Senate Republican Leadership introduces a bill that her colleagues ignore? Are they reformers or Rendell enablers?
Another key phrase ”Records missing. The Department of General Services’ records on no-bid contracts prior to Gov. Ed Rendell taking office in January 2003 are virtually nonexistent, an agency official said. “