Perhaps I’m too sleepy this Monday morning, but I was unable to find a link on the News & Observer‘s Web site to today’s op ed piece from Bob Crumley, former Randolph County manager and county attorney.

Crumley served on the Commission on State Property from 2004 to 2006, and his column outlines the various ways in which bureaucrats stopped that group from doing its job.

“I learned many things about how Raleigh and the bureaucracy work,” Crumley writes, then he enumerates four particular lessons learned.

  • “A bureaucrat can, and often does, thwart the will of the General Assembly.”
  • “Why do something in a week that can take months?”
  • “Why show up with one state employee when four or five will do?”
  • “State bureaucrats believe that state property belongs to them.”