And the Award For Worst Management Idea Goes To ...
February 20, 2009
A good manager can save money and improve public services. An average manager can save money by cutting public services. It takes a truly special bureaucrat, however, to devise a plan that completely eliminates a popular public service, eliminates jobs and costs the state money—to the tune of over $2.5 million a year.
Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Nonnie Burnes is one such bureaucrat, achieving the trifecta of public sector mismanagement, as she announces her intention to abolish the Insurance Commission's Board of Appeal.
Here’s how she did it: Download the flyer describing Commissioner Burnes' Academy Award-winning performance.
Listen to the radio ad NAGE wrote, which aired for a week beginning February 24th.
TAKE ACTION! Call your state representative and state senator at 617-722-2000 and urge them to save the Board of Appeal (and save you money!).