The fact that it is no bid and I have seen the process, and I even tried to bid on the contract that was guarded by certain people. The competitive bidding process has been stifled and the whole process rigged for years .Many good firms have been dissuaded and even intimidated by certain folks guarding the fix. When some of the largest insurance brokerages in the world can’t get a fair chance but a locally held small firm can what does that tell you? I think it merits an investigation by the DOJ it is so corrupt!

We don’t hate Tompkins. In fact we don’t hate anybody who isn’t named Tom Brady or Richard Simmons … and truth be told we really don’t hate them either, we’re just jealous of their skills, yo.

Your explanation is remarkably similar to the on-the-record crap the State Budget and Control Board was spewing on this, well, with the notable exception that they can spell ‘catastrophic’ and you can’t.

We’ll be following up on this story in a couple of days with some updated information about this contract, at which point we look forward to reading the Tompkins talking points from you once again.

Seriously, man, it sounds to us like Tompkins could shoot your momma in the head and you’d post a comment saying we shouldn’t rush to judgment because as it turned out your momma was crazy and really needed to be put down.

-FITSNews

If you had a inkling of what this entails, you would realize why this was not competitvely bid. We are talking about a $400 million dollar policy. Not even AIG or Zurich would underwrite something like that alone. It takes many carriers to come together and agree on something like this as to who has what level of insurance, should the state ever hit catasstrophic problems. So it’s not like bidding the for carpet or patrol cars…where best price wins. And if you really investigated, which is apparent you didn’t, you would find that Rep. Smith realized that this probably wasn’t a good idea once the facts were laid out to him and he wished he could borrow Doc Brown’s DeLorean. Some constituent in the insurance business wanted a piece of the action…so like any smart elected official, you see if you can help, which is what Rep. Smith did.

While I agree with you that we should have as competitive and as open a bid process on as much stuff as possible, cost is not always the objective and in some instances, you may get a bid a bid from someone who cannot produce the necessary results.

I realize that this is more your continuing battle with Tompkins…but to label it an insurance scam is a stretch. Please stop letting your hate for Tomkins interfere with accurate journalism…

Nice to see Tompkins and the Romney team getting exposed.