The State Comptroller General spends too much time doing political hit pieces on public policy that does not have an extreme Left leaning. They do "studies" on obesity and are constantly looking for projects to spend more money on. They even work out plans to make sure that the BEP keeps pumping money from the haves to the have-nots by redefining what ability to pay means.

The Comptroller Generals Office has been used to criticize the former Republican Governor for being unable to get road projects done but keeps well away when the same thing could be said about the progress at TDOT.

The Comptroller's office wrote a report that stated that TDOT needed an objective project selection process and then proceeded to say that TDOT should be modeled on five other "peer" states. All except one "peer" state had higher per capita income and all "peer" states had higher gas taxes. One state had an income per mile of road six times that of Tennessee. Those "peer" states were Florida, Maryland Wisconsin,North Carolina and Washington.

The objective system that was suggested was nothing but an excuse to spend more money on non-highway projects and to prevent the concentration of effort on controlling congestion by keeping the number of new lane-miles added to the system in line with the population increases. Nothing was said in the last performance audit about the outrageous cost and ineffectiveness of the County Seat Connector Projects or the Appalachian Development Highway System. I would like to see a performance audit on congressional earmarks. It would not be that hard after several years to compare the safety and capacity of roads added due to earmarks and roads generated within the TDOT system without earmarks.

It is past time that we have a real performance audit of TDOT but this Comptroller General is not the one to do it. This Comptroller Generals office, in my opinion, has been used in a cynical way to give political cover for questionable public policy.

The "report" isn't worth two cents. But your money and my money was spent to deceive us.

Sick of it. Pretty much literally at this point.