Here & Now; 814
- Series
- Here & Now
- Episode
- 814
- Contributing Organization
- PBS Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/29-601zd0fd
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Here and Now, fraud in Wisconsin Shares program, Sec Reggie Bicha bite 'No one, no one in the state is more outraged than am I by the behavior we have seen in the Wisconsin Shares program. ' , fraud in Wisconsin Shares program,Alberta Darling: Why did it take so long to uncover all of this fraud? Reggie Bicha: It was built on the assumption that people would do good things for kids and would be good business stewards and we have all learned that indeed is not the case. , fraud in Wisconsin Shares program,Reggie Bicha interview about fraud in Wisconsin Shares - daycare program - recorded in field, fraud in Wisconsin Shares program and fraud investigation, Mark Pocan soundbite: 'There's an 800 pound gorilla in the room. The fact there's hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in Milwaukee County's budget to do fraud investigation, hasn't been used in Milwaukee County. The fact that we've had to pro-actively as a legislature take over Milwaukee County's delivery of this service, the only county in the state we've had to do this. I think when you scale government down to the size you don't allow it to function, you run into some issues like this.' , fraud in Wisconsin Shares program; fraud investigation; federal stimulus money, Joint finance chair, Mark Pocan. We asked Milwaukee County executive and republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker to respond to Representative Pocan's comments. He sent us this statement: State licensed child care providers are where the fraud problem is and we have offered to help the state. Prior to our request, the state contract did not allow the county to use administrative funds to review state licensed child care providers. In fact, the state told us that they had a deficit and warned that funds would be cut from the county contracts, which put the brakes on new spending. Efforts to shift the blame from the state are nothing more than grand political theater that ignores the facts. For his part, state representative Mark Pocan appears to be an equal opportunity critic, not just calling a republican executive to task but also a democratic appointee, the state secretary of transportation. Pocan this week got mad when Frank Busalacchi failed to show at an audit committee hearing to explain why DOT spent $36 million to hire private construction engineers compared to spending $20 million on state employee engineers. Mark Pocan joins us now. , federal stimulus money, Federal stimulus funding - state joint finance committee voted to approve more of it, including $4.8 million for Energy Star rebates on appliances and furnaces and air conditioners. $7.5 million to fund alternative fuel or high tech clean vehicles and more than $700,000 for so-called smart grid advanced metering for electricity. To all of these measures, republican state representative Robin Vos cast a no vote. He joins us as we welcome Representative Mark Pocan back into the mix for this conversation. , H1N1 vaccine, H1N1 vaccine is about to arrive in Wisconsin. We want to get an update on the vaccine now with Dan Hopfensperger, the director of the Wisconsin immunization program at the department of health services. , Packer-Viking Game,Peter Leidy sings about next Monday nights Packer vs. Viking football game where GB quarterback Aaron Rodgers will go against former GB and now Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre.
- Created Date
- 2009-10-02
- Rights
- Content provided from the media collection of Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, a service of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. All rights reserved by the particular owner of content provided. For more information, please contact 1-800-422-9707
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:28:32
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Wisconsin Public Television (WHA-TV)
Identifier: WPT1.3.2009.814 MB (Wisconsin Public Television)
Format: HDCAM
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:27:46
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Here & Now; 814,” 2009-10-02, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-601zd0fd.
- MLA: “Here & Now; 814.” 2009-10-02. PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-601zd0fd>.
- APA: Here & Now; 814. Boston, MA: PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-601zd0fd