California: Deception plagues disabled veteran program. Contracts go to fronts, nonresidents.

Sacramento Bee ^ | May 4, 2003 | John Hill

[John Jorsett]

A program that earmarks state contract money for California's disabled veterans is exploited by out-of-state operators who get in through loose residency requirements and by companies in which veterans appear to be little more than figureheads, a Bee investigation found.

State law sets a goal of spending 3 percent of contract dollars with businesses owned and operated by disabled veterans.

Some disabled veterans say the program has become rife with abuse. Complaints focus on the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which each year pays about $15 million to lease firefighting equipment from private companies, giving preference in certain circumstances to those owned by disabled veterans.

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[John Jorsett]

What a surprise: another state program gets taken to the cleaners. Let's see, worker's comp, MediCal, software purchasing, yada yada yada. Sacramento can't do much of anything right, it seems.

[John Jorsett]

ping

[NormsRevenge]

Hasnt MoJO fixed this yet?

Recall Gray Davis

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A politician somewhere is collecting a fee!

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[So Cal Rocket]

The California Disabled Veterans Program... brought to you by the same people who brought you:

the Deparment of Motor Vehicles
California Worker's Compensation Program
the California Coastal Commission

and the same people who want to manage a Single Payer Health Care System

[Grampa Dave]

This sounds just like the phoney minority owned construction companies all over California.