Friday, August 25, 2006
Posted by Peter Deane
Recently, TOAST, Taxpayers Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes,
, received news that the Department of Homeland Security was living in the lap of luxury last March at the Cincinnatian Hotel at $254 per night per person. This week the Department of Homeland Security is in town again for a Convention at the Cinergy Center. We called Washington D.C., DHS Department of Grants and Funding, for verification if this, the extravagant party and lodging at the Cincinnatian did in fact happen on the dates of March 8th and 9th of 2006. We were also wondering if DHS is going to be living in the lap of luxury again when they come to town this Tuesday & Wednsday. Guess what? The Cincinnatian is booked full Tuesday.
TOAST was forwarded to Tracy Trautman. She’s is the person that oversees funding and grants for DHS in the United States. When enquiring, TOAST thought it best that all be done through email. That’s when she hung up on me.
How crude of The Department of Homeland Security to be cutting funds in Ohio. Ohio went from 77.8 million last year to 41 million this year. Let’s not forget to mention that Cincinnati, Ohio, had major cuts in the millions, also, in funding.
And now we see why. We at TOAST have come to believe that Tracey Trautman is hiding the fact that she is allowing this type of spending to go on. It’s something that Tracy Trautman of DHS doesn’t want to talk about. Are DHS officials sleeping at the Cincinnatian Hotel at $254 a night? Where are they staying this week? Are they back at the Cincinnatian Hotel? How much is this going to cost the taxpayers of Cincinnati?
I have emailed both City Beat and the Enquirer to help find answers into this scandal—seems like these are questions that Tracey Trautman of Homeland Security doesn’t want us asking in Cincinnati. She hangs up especially when it comes to funding, hotels, extravagant parties and sleeping at the Cincinnatian.
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