MHPC gets the "despicable" award
By Wally EdgeMike, at Maine Politics has captured the video feed of Bruce Hodson, President of the State Employees Union calling the MaineOpenGov website "despicable" because it displays actual names with the salary information.
The information is all a matter of public record, but the ease of access and wide spread availability is new.
The impact of this site could potentially be significant. However, the salary information is not really where the action will be. My guess is that the more significant finds will come from the "checks to businesses and people" portion of the website.
The eager beavers at AsMaineGoes have already made a few interesting discoveries about Dirigo.
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MHPC refuses to print their own employee and funding list.
MHPC notified that they were publishing the names of victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence. Their answer "tough luck"
MHPC notified of gross errors in the information published. Their answer "not our problem".
Real responsible bunch.
Well, Thomas, for
Well, Thomas, for starters...all three of your points are lies.
Get back in to your union thug hole and stay there.
In response...
*MHPC staff salaries are not funded by tax dollars. My salary is not available on the site either, because I'm not subsidized by the taxpayers
*You can find the name, address and phone number of somebody by using any internet search engine--a public record listing only names and salaries doesn't change that
*MHPC's information comes directly from State records. If you believe their information is inaccurate, perhaps you should be calling your elected officials, not whining to a think tank.
Exactly. All MHPC is doing
Exactly. All MHPC is doing is making public records more easily available in a user-friendly format. There are errors in the database; I have recognized them personally as I browsed it. But, MHPC did not gather the data; the state did.
The errors are a result of state record-keeping, not MHPC's webmasters. If you compare MHPC's data to the less-easy-to-use state data, they are equal.
Blame errors on the State, not on MHPC.
No wonder that fat guy from
No wonder that fat guy from the State Union is screaming like someone spilled his whole case of beer...
The SALARIES and BENEFITS the state paper-pushers rake in are gosh-darned good wages here in Maine!
To say nothing about the benefits, FREE healthcare and early retirement these slugs can collect.
Funny to hear some threaten to leave their state jobs and work in the private sector... GOOD LUCK!!!
Most state workers couldn't get a job at Wendy's
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