Posted on 07/23/2004 9:58:52 AM PDT by truth49
EPHRATA – At a meeting today at the Grant County Court House concerning the county's difficulty getting records from the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in the Mattawa day care scandal, DSHS Secretary Dennis Braddock made the following striking admission: "No doubt there is fraud throughout the state, but we [DSHS] do not have the staff to do major enforcement."
Regarding why DSHS had not yet provided records requested from Grant County law enforcement, DSHS staff said it was due to a "communications glitch."
Area legislators called today's meeting to provide Grant County law enforcement, DSHS, and local elected officials the opportunity to clear up the ongoing controversy concerning the fraudulent payments to and licensing of some Mattawa day care providers. Joining DSHS and Grant County law enforcement at the meeting were Mattawa area officials, and Sen. Joyce Mulliken, Rep. Cary Condotta, Rep. Bill Hinkle, Rep. Janea Holmquist, and a representative from U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings' office. The Evergreen Freedom Foundation was also invited and participated.
Despite Secretary Braddock's acknowledgment of fraud and multiple audit reports highlighting this fact, under questioning from the press, the staff was not able to answer whether or not licenses have been revoked or payments ceased to any of the remaining questionable day care providers in Mattawa.
(Excerpt) Read more at effwa.org ...
Mattawa day care scandal? - Mattawa is a tiny town, more cows than people.... Maybe that's what they were doin'.... Fraudulent cow care.
Crime & Corruption Bump.
Seriesly????
Socialist Republic of Washington. Home of Bagdad Jim and Osama Patty.
"Socialist Republic of Washington. Home of Bagdad Jim and Osama Patty."
You forgot Democratic Governor Gary Locke, Senator Maria Cantwell, Represenative Norm Dix, etc., ad nauseam, ad infinitum. (Impurae matris prolapsus ab alvo.)
Good point, sorry about that. It's Washington state.
Yes!
I clicked and clicked.
Then looked at the Boeing article.
Then I knew.
I wouldn't have......... had I not known beforehand that Boeing was in Washington.
Papers like this don't give the state they're in very openingly. It's hidden. You have to hunt for it.
Wonder why?
I have noticed that about newspapers too... there are a lot of newspapers that call themselves The Herald, or the Times, or even the Springfield Times, that don't identify what state they are in. For the poster, it'd be helpful to include state in the headline.
I agree.
Maybe someone will read our disgruntlement about this issue and help us out!
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