Introducing the candidate Pinocchio tracker
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 10th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Introducing the candidate Pinocchio tracker
We are pleased to launch our Pinocchio tracker for the 2012 campaign, developed with the brilliant assistance of Lori Williams at Tableau Software.
At a glance, it will tell you how the various candidates have fared in Pinocchio checks. It lists each rating, with a link to the relevant article. If you hover over a candidate’s name, the tracker will also calculate the average number of Pinocchios a person has received. We plan to update this tracker at the end of every week.
Fight for job leaves Stephen Patrick idle and on the federal payroll
You’ve heard the calls all year from politicians and the public: Government needs to go on a diet. The Obama administration says it is reining in waste. Republicans itching to run Washington say they’ll rein it in more.
They haven’t met Stephen Patrick.
Patrick, 43, used to have one of the federal government’s more arcane jobs: driving nuclear materials around the country in unmarked convoys to support the nation’s weapons stockpile. He makes $47,000 a year. He is a former cop and Marine who rides a Harley — and does not like bureaucracies too much.
Health care is making the postmaster general angry
Eager to find ways to cut costs for the U.S. Postal Service, the nation’s postmaster is so eager to get out of the federal government’s health-care plan that he’s getting angry about it.
Fed up with paying about $7.3 billion annually in health care for postal workers, retirees and dependents, Patrick R. Donahoe is pushing plans that would allow USPS to spin out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and establish a separate postal health care system.
