Moose Lake sex-offender warehouse director scolded, TVs punished
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:22 pm
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The Star Tribune started it, and now the newspaper has announced an end to the saga of the flat-screen TVs at the state facility for sex offenders at Moose Lake. The facility’s director has been reprimanded and the TVs have been punished.
No sooner did the Strib reveal in October that $1,500 plasma TVs grace common areas at the facility than Gov. Pawlenty ordered the sets removed for resale or (he decided on reflection) transfer to veterans’ homes.
Pawlenty also vowed that whoever made the “bonehead” decision to install fancy TVs at Moose Lake should get “reprimanded, at a minimum.” And Thursday the Strib confirmed that the facility’s director, who wasn’t there when the “bonehead” decision was made, has received a verbal tsk-tsk.
Eight of the sets got wrecked en route from Moose Lake to their new homes. Only four have been installed at veterans’ homes in Minneapolis and Moose Lake.
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Comment posted December 11, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
MnProgressiveProject.com broke the story of the broken televisions last Tuesday, December 8th: http://mnprogressiveproject.com/diary/4681/gov-tbag-and-the-case-of-the-missing-tvs
And that “story” from Pawlenty’s Department of Veterans Affairs, about “four televisions installed”?
Last Monday, the Director of the Fergus Falls Veterans Home told me the two televisions they received had NOT been installed, and last Tuesday an official from the Minneapolis Veterans Home told me that they hadn’t installed the two televisions they received that weren’t broken (four were) hadn’t been installed, either.
So I was quite surprised to read in the Strib that the Veterans Homes were claiming “four were installed.”
Yesterday, I asked for an appointment this morning at the Mpls Home to actually see if the televisions were installed; Pawlenty’s Veterans Affairs people refused – and want me to make an appointment next week.
Personally, my suspicion is they’re stalling for time.
There were 26 televisions removed from the Moose Lake Treatment Center – so, where are the other 12?
This story isn’t over – not at all.
Comment posted December 12, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
Pawlenty also vowed that whoever made the “bonehead” decision to install fancy TVs at Moose Lake should get “reprimanded, at a minimum.”
Gee, I wonder what dumb governor signed the paperwork for those TVs?
Comment posted December 13, 2009 @ 8:30 am
Gee, you’d think in a matter as “important” as this that a potential Presidential candidate would have his best people on the case. Imagine the opposition adds: “He can’t handle a few TeeVees and he wants to run our country?”
Of course we know that he did have his best people on the case. Its pretty obvious when you look at the condition of state finances that this is par for the course.
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