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Saturday, August 27, 2011
One small win for humankind: Comptroller rejected $27 M no bid Wireless contract
One small but significant victory: public outrage has managed to stop the state contract with Wireless Generation, owned by Rupert Murdoch and run by Joel Klein.
As reported in today's Daily News, State Comptroller Di Napoli rejected the egregious $27 million contract that the NY State Education Department wanted to award the company, to build a statewide data system modeled after the highly deficient city system known as ARIS.
We were the first to post a petition to Di Napoli, the Regents, and the feds, after the Daily News broke the story, and many other petitions and letters to the Comptroller followed.
For some of the reasons this contract should have been rejected see here.
If you would like to thank Comptroller Di Napoli, you can send an email to: contactus@osc.state.ny.us
Keep safe everyone on the East Coast, from Hurricane Irene, but savor this win for accountability and for someone who dared to say NO to educrats , apparently intent on wasting taxpayer money and reward their friends and cronies with no-bid contracts.These wins have been few and far between in recent years.
Your consistent vigilance over the greedy and self serving actions of "corporate gangsters" who try to enrich themselves while pretending that they are contributing mightly to the public good is to be commended. So glad your efforts and that of other like minded people paid off. Your name will be included in the hall of fame of caring and public minded citizens.
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2 comments:
Great work!!! Thank You.
Your consistent vigilance over the greedy and self serving actions of "corporate gangsters" who try to enrich themselves while pretending that they are contributing mightly to the public good is to be commended. So glad your efforts and that of other like minded people paid off. Your name will be included in the hall of fame of caring and public minded citizens.
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