According to the News & Observer,
The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources squandered nearly $700,000 this year buying environmental restoration from a company that had already been paid for the same work by another state agency nine years earlier, said a state legislative review released today.
So who is getting fired for squandering taxpayers’ money? This is the state government, silly. Nobody is getting fired!
Senate leader Marc Basnight, a Manteo Democrat, said through a spokesman that the environmental agency now admits it made a mistake. Basnight ordered the review after The News & Observer reported the EBX payment last week.
“It was an honest mistake with no intention of wrong doing,” said Basnight’s spokesman, Schorr Johnson. “It will not happen again.”
You see, all is better now.
