State Rep. Kent Lambert, R-Colorado Springs, today decried the Governor’s Energy Office for advertising three new job postings on their Web site while state employees face another unpaid day off.
“I find it difficult to understand why the governor would be advertising for new government jobs while state government is facing across the board budget cuts,” Lambert said. “Now is not the time to be expanding government.”
The job advertisements in question are for positions within the Governor’s Energy office. After reviewing the job postings, Lambert questioned why state government would be furloughing existing employees and hiring new state employees simultaneously.
“I have to question the logic behind adding five more highly paid government bureaucrats with lavish benefit packages while we are furloughing state employees,” Lambert said. “It seems that the so-called hiring freeze is now officially dead.”
Lambert also points to other recent media reports citing wasteful spending at the Department of Education and a scathing audit of the CollegeInvest program as evidence that state government needs to rein in spending and control costs.
“It is shameful that the governor is still expanding pet government projects while he unilaterally cuts several days of pay from existing state employees, proposes more cuts to the homestead property tax exemption for senior citizens, and cuts fire and police protection in casino communities,” Lambert said. “It is time we reexamine government priorities and set things straight.”
The job announcements can be found online at Colorado Governor's Energy Office Web site.
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