McReynolds/Vos Team expensive for Racine County Taxpayers

Republican State Senate candidate for the 21st District William McReynolds and Republican State Representative Robin Vos make quite a team. Together they have build a profitable popcorn business in Racine County.

The bad news for the Racine County taxpayers is that they did it by using a lot of county resources. The good news for the Racine County taxpayers is that one of their county supervisors is watching their back.

Racine County Supervisor Ken Hall and other Racine County residents were so outraged by the reports in the Racine Journal Times of McReynolds' abusing county resources in the that they did a little investigating on their own. Turns out, McReynolds has been using county resources even more that originally reported.

Hall has issued a report that you can find at a blog post from Progressive Majority Wisconsin. Some of the lowlights of the report include:

Analysis of call records obtained with open records requests for the periods from April 2003 to December 2005 for the office phone of the Racine County Executive, and for the months of April 2003 to May 2003 for the County Executive’s government issues cell phone produced 562 contacts and the likely loss of more than 20 work days.

The report also notes that Racine County pays a higher salary to its county executive because it is a very demanding job. That job also includes rules that say under no circumstances should county phones be used to "Solicit business for personal gain or profit."

This report shows that once all the information is fully examined regarding McReynolds use of county resources for personal gain, he is going to have a hard time winning an election for dog catcher.