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I just want to throw out one of the people behind this misuse of funds is from McDowell County, Jimmy Gianato-Director of Homeland Security and Emegency Management, just wanted to get that out of the way. He also used his influence to get his son a job making 60$ an hour with a telecommunications company. This is not a reflection on us in McDowell as a whole.
This bit of information below is on the Dept. of Homeland Security and Emergency Management website-Jimmy Gianato's biography.
In 2009, at the direction of Governor Joe Manchin, Director Gianato and Secretary of Commerce Secretary Kelley Goes developed an application to the NTIA to provide high speed broadband access to 1065 key facilities, construct 12 radio towers, significantly increase the capacity of the public safety backbone in the State and develop a connector between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Greenbank, WV to West Virginia University. The application was held as a model for other states to follow by NTIA and in February 2010, West Virginia was awarded 126 million dollars to complete the project.
Give it a rest - Charleston didn't give the Manchin kid a fake degree - that was Morgantown I believe. What shame and embarassment that brought to the state.
Surely not the kind of shame that continues on Tobacco Road for the horrific damage they have done to the entire nation.
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