Alaska on Autopilot: Where's the Captain? Andrew Halcro rips the Gov. a new one

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http://www.andrewhalcro.com/alaska_on_auto_pilot_wheres_the_captain

(3/30/09) On March 19, just hours after Governor Sarah Palin held a press conference to announce that she was rejecting federal stimulus monies that would feed operating expenses, one of Palin's directors was telling lawmakers the exact opposite.

During a Senate Finance budget subcommittee closeout, Department of Revenue's Administrative Services Director Ginger Blaisdell testified that the budget for the Child Support Enforcement Division would be fine because there was federal stimulus money they planned to utilize to fill needs of the division.

Rebecca Braun, Publisher of the Alaska Budget Report wrote in her latest installment, "When a reporter questioned Blaisdell following the meeting, noting Palin had hours earlier said she is rejecting all stimulus operating monies (except Medicaid funding), Blaisdell was nonplussed."

Braun goes on to report that the following day after checking with the Office of Management and Budget, Blaisdell confirmed that Palin had removed the money from her stimulus request. "I had no idea until you brought it up to me about the operating money being cut," Blaisdell wrote in an email.

This was just one example of how the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing in the Palin administration.

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