Iowa’s governor used federal COVID relief funds to pay her own staff’s salaries and cover a pre-existing budget shortfall, the state’s auditor said in a report released Monday.
Thus cementing her status as an up and coming star in GOP political circles.
If a Governor does it that means it’s legal.
“During this time, the Governor’s staff spent a vast majority of their time responding to the pandemic. In fact, many members of Gov. Reynolds’ staff worked seven days a week…"
“…from Cancun.”
Jewish space lasers changed the accounting numbers in the computer system, in order to implicate her in a crime.
If anyone with an R next to their name, or votes R, or leans R, or is someone who just wants to own the Libs, that means it’s legal.
And if it’s really illegal the DOJ or Congress will do something about it. Soon. You just wait. It’s happening. It is. Soon.
It’s almost as if “rule of law” meant “rule of Lame Ass Whites.”
Someone check gov Kristi Noem’s books. Given her junketing around the country using the state plane (has she reimbursed the state tenfold yet as required by state law?) she’s a good candidate for similar shenanigans.
Jeez, in the olden days of government, there would have been a bunch of RIFs or leave without pay. Now, you can just raid the Treasury.
“We advocated against a rational response to the pandemic tirelessly. We earned that money.”
Budget documents from the Homeland Security and Emergency Management office even showed a revealing change: A column tallying the money sent to the governor’s office was originally labeled “FY 2020 Shortfall,” but a subsequent revision changed the column — to “COVID-19 Personnel Costs.”
Apparently, they aren’t up on procedure for how auditing is done. “They’ll just ask for the latest and we’ll be fine if it doesn’t match the one from LY…”
Their prez moved money out of the DOD budget to the budget for Wall and nobody said anything much. I think they figured if he could do it they could.
Wait, I thought the Italian military satellite was for magically changing numbers.
(Side note: The very first microcomputer I encountered was an Olivetti P6060 at my school. It had an absurd number of buttons and keys. One of my classmates used a carefully trimmed square of paper to change the label on one of the control keys to say “BLOW UP”, which alarmed the math teacher who was supposed to be supervising the thing; so perhaps there was some overlap in functionality.)
Reynolds, or “The Kim Reaper” or “Covid Kim” gets lost in the parade of awful GOP govs, but as a resident of the state, I have to say, she’s as terrible as any of them.
I could count on two hands the number of Republicans in this country who aren’t totally corrupt.
Really - you could use both hands?
This expenditure moves from the category of creative accounting to scandal only in the event the governor is penalized in some way. I can see a lot of Iowa voters thinking this use of Federal funds was A-OK.
Fact Check: Mostly True.
Iowa has had notably more deaths per capita than any of its neighboring states except Kristi Noem’s South Dakota.