Any reader of this blog has seen the unbelievable arrogance of government we're subjected to every day. Of particular note is the well documented effort to ram an unneeded and unwanted multi-billion dollar waste of money down our throats so they can get their precious loot rail here into Clark County.
Not to be out done, King County's own Sound Transit, best known for lying to the voters to get them to agree to pay for an equally colossal but far more experience waste of money known as loot rail.
In fact, the effort and subsequent rip off by Sound Transit, including crimes of forcing eminent domain, deciding they didn't need the stolen property after all, then selling it for a huge profit led to my coining of the phrase "loot rail."
Now, we have yet another example of Sound Transit ripping off the taxpayers. And no, this kind of monumental arrogance does not surprise me... nor does the fact that no one will be held accountable for this theft (misappropriation is a little too kind, given the State Auditor's prior warnings) from The People.
And we're already seeing that kind of disdain for the people right here in our own Clark County.
Sound Transit spent funds illicitlySponsorships aren't allowed, auditor says
Sound Transit illegally paid for event sponsorships that didn't benefit the agency or promote its transit services, a state audit has concluded.
Moreover, the agency was warned that the practice was wrong but continued doing it anyway, the state said.
The audit, issued this week and circulated Thursday by the Washington Policy Center, said that since April 2006 the agency has paid $8,050 in sponsorship money to three nonprofit groups: the Transportation Choices Coalition, Futurewise and the Cascade Land Conservancy.
It said it was legal for the agency to separately pay $156,000 in membership dues to the coalition.
But the sponsorships "are not within (the agency's) authority because sponsorships do not provide information to the public about the transit authority's services," the Jan. 26 audit said.
The audit report said the state Auditor's Office notified Sound Transit in June of 2007 that "purchasing sponsorships are not within its authority. ... The Transit Authority, however, continued this type of expenditure as $3,200 of the $8,050 was contributed after June 2007."
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