Thursday, September 28, 2006
Squealing Pigs
The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions and Citizens Against Government Waste recently co-released the “2006 Ohio Piglet Book.” They hype it as the “book Columbus doesn’t want you to read.” Apparently no one wants to read it since I could only find one media mention of the publication and that was an oped written by the authors.
I also did a little online research on Citizens Against Government Waste and they appear to be nothing more than paid shills. A St. Petersburg Times article earlier this year found that they issued a report promoting the importation of avocados from Mexico after receiving a $100,000 “donation” from Mexican avocado growers. The article suggest that they were critical of government support for the YWCA and YMCA after taking $5,000 from the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. Sounds like pay to play to me.
One expenditure that didn’t make the "Ohio 2006 Piglet Book” was the $500,000 the Ohio Rail Development Commission that Buckeye Institute co-founder and Senior Researcher Sam Staley is sharing in, to study passenger rail in Ohio. I wonder why?
I also did a little online research on Citizens Against Government Waste and they appear to be nothing more than paid shills. A St. Petersburg Times article earlier this year found that they issued a report promoting the importation of avocados from Mexico after receiving a $100,000 “donation” from Mexican avocado growers. The article suggest that they were critical of government support for the YWCA and YMCA after taking $5,000 from the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association. Sounds like pay to play to me.
One expenditure that didn’t make the "Ohio 2006 Piglet Book” was the $500,000 the Ohio Rail Development Commission that Buckeye Institute co-founder and Senior Researcher Sam Staley is sharing in, to study passenger rail in Ohio. I wonder why?
