Posted on 08/01/2024 6:18:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
Affluent liberals will do nearly anything to parade their own perceived moral virtue, including fleecing their neighbors at gunpoint.
In the end, however, the only thing on parade is tragicomic liberalism.
On July 25, Megan Davey Limarzi, Inspector General of Montgomery County, Maryland, issued a blistering memorandum regarding her office’s (OIG) investigation into Montgomery County Public Schools’ catastrophic management of an electric bus contract, which has cost taxpayers millions and forced MCPS to rely on diesel buses.
The sad story began with the usual virtue signaling.
“On February 23, 2021, as part of its commitment to sustainability, MCPS announced it was replacing 326 diesel school buses with electric school buses,” Limarzi wrote.
That ambitious purchase came at a cost of $168,684,990.
According to 24/7 Wall St., Montgomery County ranks as the 3rd-wealthiest county in Maryland with a median household income of $125,583.
In the 2020 election, President Joe Biden won Montgomery County by a staggering 60 percentage points, per Politico.
In other words, these are exactly the sort of affluent liberals who worship the god of climate change and would adopt even the most authoritarian remedy if it meant that they could feel good about saving the planet.
Alas, Limarzi found that the electric bus contractor “did not deliver any of the buses expected in FY2022 through FY2024 by August 1st as required by the agreement’s delivery schedule.”
Nor will the contractor meet said delivery goal for the 2024-25 school year.
With that in mind, MCPS should have assessed fees, as it would have done under a diesel bus contract. But it did not do so, which cost an additional $1.8 million.
This led Limarzi to conclude that MCPS had utterly fleeced taxpayers.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
So exactly where did the 168 million dollars go.
If no product was delivered.
Did the vendor actually do anything or build anything or just a 100% scam and took the money ran.
“So exactly where did the 168 million dollars go”[?]
10% to the Big Guy?
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Money-Run-Woody-Allen/dp/6305474826
The vendor probably said:
“I have a gub.”
Lol.
Holy moley. Liberal Montgomery County ran into trouble with virtue signaling with electric school buses?
Well, so much for Kamala Harris going to Montgomery County, and praising their work on electric school buses. Considering her stated love of school buses ,and her love of pushing global warming, a campaign appearance with electric school buses would have been a natural.
Property owners will face an additional school levy next election cycle. Teachers will fill property owners’ children with pro-teacher’s union propaganda. Property owners will overwhelmingly pass an additional tax on themselves.
How are they going to have school field trips to to Brookside Gardens for drag queen story hour without electric buses?
https://moco360.media/2022/08/12/drag-queen-story-hour-resumes-saturday-at-brookside-gardens/
Fossil fuels are a miraculous gift from nature. Solar energy transformed (at no cost to us) into a relatively energy-dense, relatively stable and easily transportable form. All we have to do it dig it out of the ground.
Think of the children!?
Kamala knows there is nothing better to rub your body against than a yellow school bus. “When I think about what the experience should be” she goes into ecstacy.🚌⚡👄💥💓💘💋
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6314405872112
Let’s get one thing straight: there is no such thing as a fossil fuel. Period. Petroleum? Yes. Hydrocarbons? Yes. Fossil fuels? No.
YES
I wonder whose pockets the money ended up in.
They ought to be investigating THAT.
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