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Speaking of Fiscal Irresponsibility…

Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Administrative

This is what the media used to be good for:

Patrick Dostie, the state’s nuclear safety inspector, has been coming to work every day to a job he’s held since 1989 even though the position was eliminated in 2005 by the Legislature.

Lawmakers were set again this year to eliminate the job, along with the position of nuclear safety adviser, a post currently held by former Senate President Charles Pray.

The thinking was that with the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant closed and officially decommissioned, the two jobs and the $276,000 budget that supports them, aren’t necessary.

But Dostie, or at least his post, has been resurrected again thanks to late-night maneuvering by Sen. John Martin, D-Aroostook, who put the position back in through an amendment to the supplemental budget.

Shining the light of publicity on self-entitled government cockroaches, so voters can whack them with the rolled-up newspaper of their displeasure.

Man, I LOVE metaphors.