March 03, 2010
A promotion for a job well done

"Governor's budget director leaving for state investment board"

Victor Moore, the governor's budget director, is leaving next month to take a job as chief operating officer with the Washington State Investment Board.

Moore has headed the Office of Financial Management since Gov. Chris Gregoire's first term started in January 2005.

As such, Moore is the financial magician who helped Mrs. Gregoire spend a $1.9 billion surplus into a $2.8 billion deficit.

Nothing to worry about. If Moore should perform a similar miracle with the state's $50+ billion government employee pension fund, nothing would ever happen to any of those wonderful defined benefit pensions. They're guaranteed! All they'd have to do is raise taxes on the rest of us.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 03, 2010 04:50 PM | Email This
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1. And we probably won't hear a peep out of the progressive trolls that decry the "greedy Wall Street executives" and how they've "ruined America."

Posted by: Geoff Morse on March 3, 2010 11:38 PM
2. I just have a vision of this guy walking away from a plane crash saying 'any landing you can walk away from..."

Posted by: ducttape2 on March 3, 2010 11:50 PM
3. Incompetence always gets promoted.

Posted by: Harry on March 4, 2010 06:55 AM
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