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The Blog for Monday, February 07, 2005

"'Accomplishment Inflation'"

    The fox guarding the henhouse comes to mind as we read that "Jeb!"
    saluted his new Department of Management Services interim chief, Robert Hosay, as an "accomplished contract attorney whose significant experience in state purchasing and large-scale procurements will continue to serve the department well."

    What most state employees probably would rather know is whether Mr. Hosay is equally able to grasp small-scale problems: for example, the abrupt and accidental insurance cancellation of a longtime state employee with an illness, which may be terminal. He is now struggling to not only get well, but also get his health insurance restored.

    Sen. Al Lawson ... expressed justified skepticism, tinged with outrage, last week at Mr. Hosay's appointment, questioning whether he will be looking out "for the interests of the state and its workers, and not the interest of Convergys."

    That's because Mr. Hosay was a major player in designing the outsourcing contract with Convergys, the largest privatization contract in state government, and which has produced what might be called a comedy of errors if not for the utter despair caused by some of the human and systemic errors. ...

    Likewise, while Mr. Bush calls his latest appointee "accomplished," the fact that Mr. Hosay has been out of law school only four years suggests a kind of "accomplishment inflation" that's faintly alarming when it comes to management of huge, high-stakes systems.
    "Memo to Convergys". One suspects that Mr. Hosay was promoted to do what is necessary to insulate saint "Jeb!" from the Convergys fallout - particularly since we have now learned that our "Jeb!" was warned in advanced that the Convergys deal was "flawed.

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