Cover Oregon Officials Running For Cover

rufus · Jan 16, 2014

Remember when state officials were smug?

"The state of Oregon is leading the nation," declared Carolyn Lawson, chief information officer for the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services. "According to the feds, we're easily nine months ahead of any other state. We have multiple states that are asking if they can participate with us."

It was the fall of 2012, and Oregon was one of a handful of states that had received huge payouts from the federal government to be an "early innovator" building a model that other states would emulate.

Today, these people are nowhere to be found. They just took the money and ran.

In April 2013, OHA and DHS discovered they had misallocated $16 million of the federal grant and were out of funds.

After weeks of increasing scrutiny of her agency's work, Lawson resigned on Thursday for "personal reasons."

Millions and millions of taxpayer dollars just wasted, flushed down the rabbit hole. Why isn't Kitzhaber being held responsible?

Oregon Health Exchange Website Yet to Complete One Enrollment

Someone belongs in jail. :angry:

3MTA3 · Jan 16, 2014

Doesn't matter - Governor Cowboy Boots is getting local press about how its really a victory, while national press ridicules us. He will still get his 4th term, followed by two more terms for Ted. Its just taxpayer money handled with the finest incompetence available. Nothing to see here, just vote D and go back to sleep.

Classic · Jan 16, 2014

Don't feel pregnant, Washington is just as corrupt. These fat cats get fatter and then all they can say is "we need to raise taxes!" WTF???

Dunerunner · Jan 16, 2014

No thanks.... I think it is time to support opposition to these incompetent legislators. if this happened in the private sector, they would be brought up on charges of embezzlement! All that saves them is that there is no investigation to determine whether they benefitted in any way from this!! It is wrong, they need to go!!