Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Politicians - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter
Say "A"; do "B"; claim ignorance...
Arthur Kane and John Ferrugia report this at DenverChannel.com:
"Gov. Bill Ritter promised a hiring freeze last year to help bridge the budget gap, but a CALL7 investigation found that as many as 2,300 employees were hired during the “freeze.”
“We have taken a number of steps to shore up our fiscal house: imposing a hiring freeze, stopping several new construction projects and halting non-essential spending requests,” Ritter said in his January 2009 State of the State speech.
But a CALL7 investigation found that the number of state employees increased during Ritter’s hiring freeze, and Ritter’s top staff, who were tasked with managing the freeze, did not know how many people were hired."
