Attorney General Wants to do $3.2 Million of Sprucing Up

• Talk to just about anyone in the AG's Office, and you will hear about an AG who loves to decorate and micro-manage our desktops and our wall space. He also involves top staff in making sure we are looking good, at least according to him. Koster gets rid of the staff who protects consumers and instead focuses on making sure new lighting is perfectly hung, new conference tables are exactly centered and walls get a mauve makeover. But have you looked at his Website? Embarrassing. Wrong priorities. What was his campaign slogan -- all prosecutor, no politics? Or was it all pretty, no protecting consumers?

• Dumb response to a reasonable plan to bring the prosecutor's office up to some form of professional standard.  It is a shame that government offices of all kinds (including school administrative offices, county and city offices, and others,) seem to be at a standard just above a third-world banana republic.  Threadbare, rundown, embarrassing.  How can we expect to attract and retain quality professional employees, who can offer intelligence, efficiency and dedication, when they are expected to work in crappy offices with crappy equipment?  And don't give me that "serve the people" and "public service" non-sense.  Public employees should have the same right to expect good tools and a quality work environment that private sector employees expect, or that public sector employee (or at least the good ones) will go elsewhere.  If I walk into an office walled off by milk crates, believe me, I'm going elsewhere for work.  The average citizen (who isn't being prosecuted) would walk into the current offices and be embarrassed by our State surroundings.  Crappy. Uncle Ron

• I guess I shouldn't be surprised a conservative wants to blow good money "raising the ceiling."

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