Diversion of weatherization funds in Kansas perplexes homeowners

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Source: Kansas City Star

Kansas lost more than a thousand jobs and the chance to weatherize thousands of homes, thanks to a state-run loan program that rolled out too slowly.

When it looked as if the state couldn’t meet a federal deadline, more than $20 million meant for weatherization loans went to a company and a nonprofit in the biofuels industry.

“This was something that was available that was going to benefit so many Kansans,” said Holli Joyce, who had plans to weatherize an older home in Kansas City, Kan., when the loan program was yanked.

The Kansas Corporation Commission concedes the revolving loan program was too slow in getting traction, but some blame Gov. Sam Brownback for pulling the plug on the program too quickly this summer.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/30/3239187/diversion-of-weatherization-funds.html

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Money was diverted to two companies that were going to create only 150 jobs instead of thousands that could have benefited had they not pulled the plug.


Wake up Kansas..

[atreides1]

1. I understand

This is the Republican vision of job creation...too incompetent to get a good program up and running that would have created 1000 jobs...and settling for 150 jobs instead.

[notadmblnd]

2. Can't the state be sued for failing to comply?

[RKP5637]

3. Root cause = Brownback, as usual. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I wonder what Sammy got out of the deal.

Send in the beancounters from the DOJ.

[a simple pattern]

5. He accidentally the whole 20 million

[Seedersandleechers]

6. Say What?

[SoapBox]

7. Dirty, dirty, dirty...

wow...and I agree, WAKE the "F" up Kansas! What the hell is wrong with you??

[jwirr]

8. And the poor people of Kansas are taken to the cleaners again. I

do not believe that they could not get the program working. Most states have had this program up and running for years. I first heard about it in 1983 and was a member of the board in the 90s and used it in recent years. Brownback has to be the cause.