Tonight I had the privilege of spending the evening with a small group of conservatives. We asked the Oklahoma State Auditor & Inspector, Gary Jones, to give us his report on the state of Oklahoma government. He gave us more information than I could dictate to my twitter account, but I got some bullet points to share with the readers. Mr. Jones said little about the recently released audit of the Oklahoma County jail, in Oklahoma City. Most of that is covered in my previous report. What I want to do is re-post the 16 tweets I posted to Twitter. Here they are. To get the correct progression, scroll to the bottom of the page and start with post #16 and proceed up the page. |
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Gary Jones says; the governor is trying to subplant the role and power of the auditor, with her own political appointee (OMES)
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Gary Jones says; interim studies are the biggest waste of time
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Gary Jones says; we need someone who's willing to be a 1 term governor, and clean up the system's abuses and excesses
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Gary Jones says; we need more legislators with real life experience instead of career politicians
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Gary Jones says; legislative assistants make more money than the auditors staff.
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Gary Jones says; Oklahoma gets the smallest percent of Indian gaming collections of any state.
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Gary Jones says; the auditors office is getting cut while OMES is growing
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Gary Jones says; OMES is giving huge raises, up to $168k to staff. Performance reviews are not constitutional, as done by OMES
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Gary Jones says; Oklahoma legislators have 15 times the office space that Iowa legislators have, in the capitol building
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Gary Jones says; the renovation of the appeals court room cost an obscene amount.
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Gary Jones says; 20 years ago there was room at the capitol for everyone, including the Supreme and appeals court.
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Gary Jones says; because of statute, property value equalization can't happen for decades
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Gary Jones says; Oklahoma County & Tulsa County are paying way more property tax per dollar of value, than the rest cuz of assessors neglect
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Gary Jones says; the senate budgeting process was essentially a 1 man committee
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Gary Jones says; When an agency does an alternative budgeting method, we can't get accurate and transparent info.
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I will be in a meeting with auditor Gary Jones. I'll keep you updated