tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post4788555245022217522..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-25137505767630820342011-03-09T13:09:40.677-05:002011-03-09T13:09:40.677-05:00Bradley! Please contact me RE: DWD issues!<br /><br />Julie<br />437-7295Julie K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08310878134292245167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-48496717402689179142011-03-09T13:05:32.920-05:002011-03-09T13:05:32.920-05:00Bradley...very interested in your comments! Are you a former DWD employee? If so, I would like to speak with you ASAP! I&#39;m a journalist, and a former DWD employee (very recent, very short stint), and I have many questions - working a story related to UI program in Indiana, and a possible link between Indiana&#39;s debt to Feds, and the LOW quality of UI claim adjudication. Please contact me!<br /><br />Julie<br />437-7295Julie K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08310878134292245167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-35144296437870812072011-03-03T19:23:02.005-05:002011-03-03T19:23:02.005-05:00It&#39;s absurd how many people work in the mayor&#39;s press office. Add to that the fact that each city agency thinks they have to have their own press person. It&#39;s just a way of handing out patronage jobs to political hacks.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-88530699826337601432011-03-03T19:17:18.551-05:002011-03-03T19:17:18.551-05:00Lotter makes $95K? Why in the world would the city pay a press person $95K? That is completely unnecessary. You could go around to the PR firm around the city and pick a ton of quallity press people who would do it for half the price.Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29410290704690246092011-03-03T01:17:38.382-05:002011-03-03T01:17:38.382-05:00Marc Lotter will probably lie to you out of both sides of his mouth, anyways. While he was at DWD, he was adept at stretching the truth -- even lying about the Unemployment Modernization program by saying it is an ongoing process; he also lied about the costs. In reality, DWD contracted with Haverstick to be completed in April 2008 at a cost of $23.9 million, period, with no additional costs to the state. Now DWD is paying Haverstick over $35.8 million and the modernization is still not completed. That&#39;s not an ongoing project as Marc said -- that&#39;s a bungled job that&#39;s costing a lot of money. Lotter lied. <br /><br />So I imagine he and the others check the blogs like yours regularly for people like me who speak-out against all the people who speak against their company line and people like you who do the same. I know DWD likes to follow what I say online because one time one of them attacked what they thought was me on the Star&#39;s website (it was a friend of mine) by stating both my name and why they thought I was fired from DWD and that I needed to get a life (fair enough, maybe I do!) They also accused me of spreading lies online, which is a lie because I back-up my information with facts. They do not when they talk.<br /><br />So good luck getting any information from Governor Daniels&#39; former press guy Marc Lotter (who earned over $81,000 from the state at DWD and now earns about $95,000 under Ballard) about an improper relationship between an employee and a contractor who has failed Indiana taxpayers in many ways and who has connections with a major law firm that runs Indianapolis and...well that paragraph could go on quite a while. <br /><br />And hello to Marc as he reads this; tell your friends at DWD my friends and I are not through exposing DWD&#39;s billions (of dollars) of problems.Bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15448573623705973306noreply@blogger.com