Archive for October, 2009
October 2009 Golden Fleece Award Winner
Golden Fleece Award, October 2009 – Margaret Carter and the Dept. of Human Services
During the 2009 legislative session, former state senator Margaret Carter served as co-chair on the Joint Ways and Means committee which approved a bill that appropriated funds through new legislation to the Dept. of Human Services in the 2009 Legislative Session. The [...]
Former Senator Carter gets Golden Fleece Award
During the 2009 legislative session, former state senator Margaret Carter served as co-chair on the Joint Ways and Means committee which approved a bill that appropriated funds through new legislation to the Dept. of Human Services in the 2009 Legislative Session.
Group: former state senator fleeced taxpayers
By Thom Jensen KATU News and KATU.com Staff
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PORTLAND, Ore. – A taxpayer watchdog group said Monday that former state Sen. Margaret Carter used her position as co-chair on a Senate committee to get a job with a $100,000 pay raise.
Common Sense for Oregon’s Executive Director Ross Day said Carter violated the state’s [...]
Conservative group attacks Carter’s new job
By Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian
October 26, 2009
Common Sense for Oregon, the new conservative group that is starting to make a splash in state politics, on Monday gave former state Sen. Margaret Carter, D-Portland, and the Department of Human Services its monthly “Golden Fleece” award.
The group criticized the department’s director, Bruce Goldberg, [...]
State drops prisoner soda. Victory for Common Sense of Oregon
Oregon Catalyst
Friday, October 16. 2009
Salem, Ore—On Tuesday of this week, the Department of Corrections announced that they will now serve inmates tea during meal service instead
of soda pop, a decision that comes only months after Common Sense for Oregon brought attention to the budget item. In May, Common Sense handed the Department of Corrections a [...]
Conservative group claims its first “fleece”
By Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian
October 14, 2009
Oregon Corrections officials announced Tuesday that they will soon stop serving soda pop to prisoners at meal times. The move comes five months after Common Sense for Oregon, a new conservative group, handed its inaugural “Oregon Golden Fleece Award” to the prison system for supplying the beverage to inmates.
At [...]
Prisoners must make do with tea instead of soda, state says
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By KGW.com Staff
SALEM, Ore. — State Prisoners will have to make do without soda pop.
The state Department of Corrections announced Tuesday that it would remove soda from meal service to prisoners, effective Dec. 31, according to
Michael F. Gower, a corrections administrator.
In May, a tax watchdog group gave the department its “Golden Fleece [...]
