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Breske retracts ‘dog and pony show’ remark

November 20, 2008 By WRN Contributor

RR Crossing sign The state’s railroad commissioner backs off on remarks he made, about potential budget cuts. Commissioner Roger Breske said his agency would be reduced to a “dog and pony show,” if required to make a ten percent cut as called for by the Doyle administration. “The dog and pony show stuff . . . really, truthfully, I really don’t mean that,” said Breske.

Breske, who was appointed by the governor earlier this year, now says his agency will do their best. ” OCR is a very small office, we only have five full time staff,” said Breske. “However, we will do whatever we can to come up with a solution . . . and I look forward to working with DOA (Department of Administration) budget staff to identify as many efficiencies as possible.”

The former state Senator also says the state railroads — and not taxpayer generated revenues — are footing the bill for the office. “OCR is program revenue, it’s not funded by general purpose revenue,” Breske said. “The railroads completely support what I and my staff do. We do a lot of work, everything is for public safety. It would put people at a lot of risk if (OCR) people weren’t out there inspecting crossings.”

AUDIO: Bob Hague reports (:50 MP3)

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