No Friends

Mike Conners trying to be cool and up-to-date signed up for 30 Boxes, an online service like myspace or facebook. He put the link on his web site and invited people to join.

Poor Mike. He doesn't have any buddies.

These are the audits? Just dust and smoke.

So Mike Conners now tells us he answered the FOIL request for his audits.

What he delivered was a box of papers. But the FOIL request was for a list of audits. Just a simple list so County resources would not be needlessly dedicated to pulling files that are not important. Hell, if he were organized he could have produced a list in 10 minutes. But no, he had staff plowing through the County archives.

He is obscuring the fact that he has no list of audits, and has not completed audits for basic County processes in years, if ever. Piles of boxes that took the Comptroller over a month to find and retrieve from the County's Hall of Records is a typical delay tactic--bury what was asked for in materials that were not needed.

Dust and smoke.

What Do We Really Know About Mike Conners

The people's watchdog? We don't think so.

True Blue Democrat? No way.

What does the record show? Although the temptation to say more will be great, we'll try to limit ourselves to what we know, and can document, about Mike Conners. That should be enough.

Let's face it, the guy's are great showman. But sometimes, that's not what the job really needs. This is one of those times.