The Ocean State Current
by Justin Katz on March 14, 2016
in General Assembly, Politics
However, the most disturbing part of the whole story is this one:
Asked how the money got into this year’s budget, [Finance Committee chairman, Democrat Raymond Gallison (Bristol, Portsmouth)] said: “It’s just been in the budget since 2002, and we just continued it.”
Fourteen or 15 years ago, some legislator slipped this money for the Newport Chamber of Commerce into the budget... How many grants and other expenditures are simply renewed every year even though they no longer go to anything like their original purpose?
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