The Albuquerque Journal had a stellar, two-part report this weekend about a top manager at the state Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n
To get you interested, here are the first few paragraphs of Part 1 of the report:<\/p>\n
\u201cLawrence Barreras is supervising 150 employees, cutting right-of-way land deals and earning nearly $88,000 a year as a top manager at the state Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot bad for a guy who was fired from the state Corrections Department for alleged financial wrongdoing and landed a classified DOT position only after the job description was changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, Barreras has led something of a charmed life in the Richardson administration, where his responsibilities continue to grow despite revelations about his outside consulting work, his 15 percent pay raise during a salary freeze, his use of a state car to commute and employee complaints about his management style.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd about that firing?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t find any record of it in his state personnel files. That\u2019s all been cleaned up so that the files show only that he resigned in good standing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelcome to the world of state government and Lawrence Barreras.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The report is definitely worth a read. Click here<\/a> for Part 1 and here<\/a> for Part 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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