Lt. Governor Todd Lamb Can't Run One Agency
And Now He Wants to Run Five Hundred?
The nearly eight year termed Lt. Governor Todd Lamb was in the news recently when another scandal broke out over the only agency that Lamb is in charge of running, the Tourism Department that is in charge of marketing the state and running the state lodges and parks. Fox 25 ran a story about the U.S. Department of Labor running an investigation into workplace violations at one of the parks.
It seems that an internal audit found that the workers at Roman Nose state part were docked thirty minutes out of their work day regardless of how much time they took for lunch of even if they didn't take a lunch break. Employees could take a two hour lunch if they wanted and still get paid for all but a half hour. This of course is illegal under federal wage and labor standards so the feds got involved as the state labor department would have shown bias. The illegal procedure came to light as part of an external audit, one that found many issues including that the department had refused to hire an internal auditor in violation of state law.
In addition to the labor law violations the audit found that guns were missing, a serious violation of property keeping and safety. The tourism department had also gotten caught manufacturing illegal sawed off shotguns by replacing the legal length barrels with shortened barrels The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms got involved and ordered them to dismantle the illegal weapons immediately. Agency Director Dick Dutton lied when confronted about "acquiring" illegal weapons then later the agency spokeswoman admitted that the illegal guns were ordered dismantled by the ATF. Thousands of round of high power ammunition were missing as well, no doubt sold into the black market or carried off by state employees if not the management of the agency.
Now you just have to ask yourself why a tourism department would need sawed off shotguns and high powered rifles. Game wardens, yeah, they might need a rifle in their line of work. Park rangers, not so much, not a lot of cases of mass shootings at state parks so it sounds like a lot of wasted money on security that isn't needed other than to feed the ego of the board or the managers of the tourism agency.
There were of course other problems with the tourism department uncovered in other audits and they all go to show just how inept that Lt. Governor Todd Lamb really is or how unwilling he is to spend the time attending to his duties. Then he has refused to preside over the Senate and focus on cutting waste in the budget or attempting to rein in the massive, historic level tax increases so one must admit that he either doesn't care or doesn't wish to stop the tax and spend agenda.
And this fool wants to run all of Oklahoma?
