State Treasurer John Kennedy is taking his seat on the Streamlining Commission seriously, bringing up one argument about wasteful public spending after another, says John Maginnis. Kennedy’s latest target is the $615 million the state Department of Education spent on professional services contracts over the last five years. “Legislators and state officials will grumble that Kennedy is grandstanding, and, indeed, much of his rhetoric plays to the crowd,” says Maginnis. “But while it’s the governor’s and Legislature’s job to balance the budget, their charge to the Streamlining Commission is to be bold, raise questions and challenge the way things are.” Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
