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Transparent NH?

transparent nh -public employee payroll data

A reader just wrote me to ask what happened to public employee pay transparency in New Hampshire?

Transparent NH, the state web site where you can search the pay of every public employee in state government, is supposed to be updated every February with the payroll data from the previous year.  The last year for which you can search data is 2011.

* Pay data is updated in February of each year. Ten years of data, starting at 2009, will be available to search.

For those of you who…may…not have noticed, tomorrow is…May 1st, 2013.  As every good socialist knows, May 1st is international workers day.  May 1st is a day dear to every Democrat’s class and wage-warfare riddled little heart.  Not so dear to the millions of Americans that gave up looking for work as a result of Democrat economic policies but I digress.  May is also not February.  It is past February.  Way past it.

So what’s up with that?

It is February plus a quarter of a year.  It is February plus spring.

And this is an “Official New Hampshire Government Web Site.”  So Maggie Hassan, known for many things like socialized medicine, assaults on free speech, deficit busting budgets and raising taxes, oh, and the late delivery of the complete explanation for her bloated state budget, is also late in ensuring that the bureaucracy that dances to the tune of the pied piper of Concord has delivered the most recent payroll data for public scrutiny.

Why?

Could it be that in the midst of a battle to raise the budget and taxes that the Democrat Hassan is reluctant to release the salaries of state employees for fear that it will inspire further fiscal uprisings in opposition to her calls for hundreds of millions in new spending?  Or is she just lazy, slow, or incompetent?

All of the above–not beyond the pale.

So what’s the deal Transparent NH?  Why is the 2012 payroll data three months late?

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