The ESA fine print...

[MitchLL]

Apparently Dim Kim's attorneys forgot to read the fine print when they signed the contract with the New York firm, Odyssey, to administer the school voucher program.

Instead of Odyssey receiving the flat fee of $100k that Terrace Hill thought they were paying each year for mgmt, it seems Odyssey's attorneys also included a commission based on total $$$ allotted per student.
By year 3/4, they will be getting close to $1M.
You wanna talk about a massive, expensive fvckup!!!!!
Mississippi North taxpayers...buckle up.

Imagine the Odyssey Board of Directors is sitting in the local steakhouse enjoying champagne and lobster...while laughing their collective asses off.

 

[SolarHawk]

Apparently Dim Kim's attorneys forgot to read the fine print when they signed the contract with the New York firm, Odyssey, to administer the school voucher program.

Instead of Odyssey receiving the flat fee of $100k that Terrace Hill thought they were paying each year for mgmt, it seems Odyssey's attorneys also included a commission based on total $$$ allotted per student.
By year 3/4, they will be getting close to $1M.
You wanna talk about a massive, expensive fvckup!!!!!
Mississippi North taxpayers...buckle up.

Imagine the Odyssey Board of Directors is sitting in the local steakhouse enjoying champagne and lobster...while laughing their collective asses off.

The party of fiscal responsibility! LOFL, fvcking clowns.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

So they have a financial incentive to not look too closely at the applications? Or to do anything to guard against misapplication of Iowans’ tax dollars?

 

[mthawkeyes]

Things like this won't affect the outcome of the next gubernatorial election. The GOP will just go back to playing the classics about what groups of "other" people are threatening Iowans' way of life and they'll lap it right up.

 

[HROT]

Sure wish we had some journalists in Iowa. Oh well. Guess we’ll have to rely on Rob Sand’s Twitter.

 

[comp_sci_hawk]

So they have a financial incentive to not look too closely at the applications? Or to do anything to guard against misapplication of Iowans’ tax dollars?

Follow the money, Kimmy have business interests in odyssey?

 

[UNIHawkfan]

We use the ESA for one of our kids and Odyssey suuuucks. It’s fine if everything goes through right, but if you need customer service I hope you’re ok waiting three weeks for a reply.

*I think ESAs are a terrible idea and public money should stay in public schools. I am also a tight a$$ and a hypocrite, so I accept the ESA funds that are available. I know, you all hate me now and I’m SOTE.

 

[Bonerfarts]

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Attorneys that don't do exactly what Kim wants, or that give her actual legal advice are not welcome in her government.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

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Sounds like something your AG could look into if she wasn’t out stumping for Trump.

 

[HROT]

Sounds like something your AG could look into if she wasn’t out stumping for Trump.

The governor has specifically targeted this guy and neutered its office (state auditor) because he’s the one democrat left in state office. And they don’t like them eyes on those financial oversights

 

[Jerome Silberman]

Things like this won't affect the outcome of the next gubernatorial election. The GOP will just go back to playing the classics about what groups of "other" people are threatening Iowans' way of life and they'll lap it right up.

We're living in a statewide version of The Music Man.

 

[Kelsers]

We use the ESA for one of our kids and Odyssey suuuucks. It’s fine if everything goes through right, but if you need customer service I hope you’re ok waiting three weeks for a reply.

*I think ESAs are a terrible idea and public money should stay in public schools. I am also a tight a$$ and a hypocrite, so I accept the ESA funds that are available. I know, you all hate me now and I’m SOTE.

You're a UNIHawk like me! 1982

 

[Joes Place]

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This is quite literally why your MAGA representatives - at any level - do NOT want oversight on anything they do. And work to eliminate it every step of the way.

 

[Joes Place]

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Wisconsin learned the hard way how MAGA wastes loads of taxpayer money on this nonsense (Foxconn).

They're starting to wake up there. Not sure how long it'll take Iowans to figure out the same thing.

Also, can't say Iowans weren't warned here - many folks, including myself, pointed out how Kim and her minions were pushing hard to eliminate any oversight on their policies, instead pushing all the Trans nonsense to distract Iowa voters from things that actually matter.

Iowa voters seem incredibly naïve and stupid, very much like the Music Man reference above.

 

[joelbc1]

This is quite literally why your MAGA representatives - at any level - do NOT want oversight on anything they do. And work to eliminate it every step of the way.

Bing-phuquin’-o!