Oh, remember the good ole days when politicians just directed that public contracts go to friends, donors and certain companies.
That was then and this is now…and a whole new approach is taking shape.
This week we learned that Governor Malloy and his education commissioner, Stefan Pryor hired certain consultants to help develop Malloy’s “Education Reform” bill. Rather than go through some silly competitive bidding process, they simply got a quasi-state agency, SERC to hire the two consultants; one for $195,000 and the other for $60,000.
The State Department of Education then reimburses SERC with funds from its budget and it’s all legal (maybe, sort of).
But that is nothing compared to what is quietly taking place in Bridgeport.
Bridgeport is taking it to a whole new level – an approach that saves time and energy by
