Saturday, November 28, 2009  Follow The Bouncing Furlough Day,
Part Deux  It was announced today that Milwaukee County will be
rescinding one of the mandatory furlough days. It was reported,
off of a press release (I find it doubtful any of the
supervisors were in today, and Walker already was tweeting from
home), that this was due to previously unrecognized savings from
health care costs.  The savings are in relation to the creation
of the Employee Benefits Division, which was created due to a
proposal by Board Chairman Lee Holloway.  Lack of oversight
causing fiscal problems is not something new under Scott
Walker's watch. In 2004, there was a justifiable uproar over the
Department of Aging running consistently millions of dollars in
the red. This was only resolved when Walker caved in and
reinstated an accountant to the department, a position that he
had previously eliminated.  And we are still waiting for Walker
to do something about John Chianelli, whose ineptitude led to
the deficit in the first place.