ChristyLiberals double their spending - only for insiders!

[flamingfingers]

When reporters Justine Hunter at the Globe and Mail and Sean Leslie at CKNW asked Clark about Martin's past attacks, she said, "We all say things when we are trying to get elected."

And to 'say things when we are trying to get elected' is costing us, the taxpayers:

Government ad spending more than doubles, while BC Liberal insider benefits
BC Liberal government public accounts show advertising expenditures ramping up as 2017 election approaches
By Bob Mackin | July 21, 2016, 3:26 p.m.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong during the ministry’s July 21 release of the provincial government’s public accounts | Government of BC
The company that designed the BC Liberal Party’s logo billed taxpayers $4.25 million over a 13-month period as B.C. government advertising expenditures more than doubled year-over-year.

Kimbo Design worked on at least seven projects during the year ended March 31, according to a Ministry of Finance chart released on July 21. The Public Accounts list of suppliers to government showed Kimbo was paid $4.13 million during the fiscal year, and it received another $121,839 for the month of April.

The government’s total information and publication expenditures were $12.45 million last year, up substantially since it reported spending $5.67 million in 2014-15. The 2015-16 spending included $3.7 million in funding received from the federal government under a jobs promotion agreement.

The chart showed funds for the so-called B.C. Services campaign were drawn from Government Communications and Public Engagement ($2.347 million), Advanced Education ($1 million), Education ($773,000) and Finance ($773,000) for a total $4.89 million. The ad campaign was launched last November, scheduled to run through March and originally budgeted at $5 million. The WorkBC subcomponent cost $2.741 million.

“Spending public dollars on suspect program advertising which mirrors campaign brochures is a complete abuse of the public dollar,” said Delta independent MLA Vicki Huntington. “It is undemocratic and smacks of the continued, old-fashioned, dinosaur political practice that have become synonymous with this government and this party.”

https://www.biv.com/article/2016/7/gove ... -bc-liber/

[jayro]

so true! can't understand how these crooks keep getting reelected.... its sad really how the voters allow them to get away with this

[Smurf]

Because others do it. The best reason in the world, right.

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They all need to be brought to account somehow. Right now it is just a race to see who can come up with new better ideas to hide more things and kill any transparency. We somehow have to stop it.

[flamingfingers]

^^The only thing we can do is to vote the corrupt and lying scum OUT!! Then if the next government turns out to be corrupt and lying scum, vote them OUT!

I have no concern about voting in another government other than the ChristyLiberals - they are so arrogant, so outrageously corrupt and have no concern about the hapless residents they harness with debt, debt and MORE debt - they NEED to be turfed!

With a change in government, the useless and Christyliberal pandering MSM MAY get back into their proper role of informing the electorate rather than misinforming, not reporting and generally sweeping government wrongdoings under a progressively lumpy carpet.