The stink from Ducey's $200 million shipping container border wall just got a little stinkier

[Eugene]

Source: Arizona Republic

The stink from Ducey's $200 million shipping container border wall just got a little stinkier

Laurie Roberts, Arizona Republic
Tue, January 10, 2023 at 4:49 PM EST·4 min read

It’s bad enough that former Gov. Doug Ducey’s silly container wall on the border – the one on which migrants posed as they hopped over it and slipped through it – cost the state more than $100 million to build.

Bad enough that it’s costing us another $100 million, just a few months later, to take the thing down and haul it away.

But you know what’s just plain sad? Ducey apparently couldn’t find any Arizona company capable of doing the work.

Instead, the Ducey administration brought in a Florida disaster management company to do the work – one that donated (illegally) to a pro-Trump super PAC.

One that snagged the job in a no-bid contract.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/stink-duceys-200-million-shipping-190416416.html

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Incredible the extent to which the Repugs will go....

to 'own' the Libs - and we ALL get to pay for their disasters!

[unc70]

2. No Mexican firm available?

[rubbersole]

5. Subcontractors.

The ones that sweat. The Florida contractor has got to be a republican kickback machine.

[hay rick]

14. Donated $500,000 to a Trump PAC.

Founder, Randy Perkins, ran as a Democrat for Congress in 2016.

[Rebl2]

7. That was my

thought too

[ancianita]

3. That Arizona Republic report is slammin'. Gotta check it out more often.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. This is the epitome of christofascist governance. Shoddy work for boondoggles to line the pockets of

corrupt supporters.

[FakeNoose]

6. Repuke corruption at its finest - you know who told Ducey to hire the FL company

We all know!

[ShazzieB]

21. OMG! 🤣

I just want to say how much I LOVE that gif! LMAO, for real!

[Dum Aloo]

8. This would be unbelievable if not for the record.

The funneling of taxpayer money to shady recipients should be enough to bring some charges.

But, ‘Merica!

[hay rick]

9. Randy Perkins

AshBritt was founded and is controlled by Randy Perkins. Randy Perkins ran for congress as a "Democrat" in my district against Brian Mast in 2016.

[not fooled]

10. And he will probably (?) run for Senate

and there are enough stupid, ignorant fools in this state to vote him in.

If the 'Murican people were not so ignorant and not so propagandized, he wouldn't have pulled this sh*t.

Unbelievable.

I'm in a particularly sour mood because I just got an official Medicare piece of mail that has the name of a private, for-profit company as the one who now handles this part of Medicare (treatment/payment documentation or something like that). We are seeing Medicare systematically sold off and turned into another part of corporate America, piece by piece.

I hate that this country is stupid enough that ignorant fools will allow this to happen.

[patphil]

11. Just another way to give a pay back to Republican donars.

No bid, out of state. He was done as Governor, so what did he care.

[Warpy]

12. It's insane that they're taking it down

when they could have looked the other way as the Mexicans did that in order to sell those containers for scrap.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

26. Really? Mexicans will somehow haul giant containers away, sell for scrap??

When American could do that, sell for fentanyl.

[Warpy]

27. Whoever gets there first with a cutting torch and flatbed truck

You say poTAYto, I say poTAHto.

[kentuck]

15. Clever way...

...to launder money.

[LymphocyteLover]

16. I am so freaking sick of these racist rightwing loonballs who are obsessed with immigration!!

It's all they ever talk about and meanwhile they have no damn solutions!!!

Dear left-wing critics of the Biden administration's immigration policies-- could you please do something about the extremely vocal and well-funded racist critics of Biden on the right who have demagogued this issue into oblivion and who have made doing something decent about America's immigration problems essentially impossible???

[jmowreader]

17. I better say what no one else will

How much of Arizona's $200 million is currently in Trump's bank account?

You KNOW they didn't route this contract to a Trump-aligned company because "no Arizona company could do the work." For fuck's sake people, there are companies who own cranes in Arizona and cranes are all you need to build shipping container walls. Well...cranes and trucks to take the containers out in the desert and crowbars to turn the locking devices on the containers, but mostly cranes.

No sir, no indeed: This whole sordid affair smells pretty strongly of slipping Arizona tax dollars directly to Donald Trump.

[packman]

18. That Pipeline between DeSantis and Ducey needs to be looked at

If it stinks of corruption, looks like corruption it probably is corruption.

[CrispyQ]

19. Didn't we use to have regulations against no-bid contracts? -nt

[Kali]

20. Wish I could snag a few

They got kinda pricey.

[Scalded Nun]

23. No-bid contracts should be illegal at ALL governmental levels

[TreasonousBastard]

25. I was asked to be in no bid contracts and had to say no. They..

were pretty much designed to lose us money unless we we worked harder on rounding the corners than in doing the job.

Most were in marine insurance, but later on I was selling computer services. Bidding sounds good until you see the details.

[Oneironaut]

24. Yes, but, what about the Drag Queens!?