Sam Diaz moves on

TL: Luzerne County Budget/Finance Chief Sam Diaz submitted his resignation Friday because he has accepted a job at the proposed medical school in Scranton.

The hard nosed number crunching guy has had a flair for fiction the last few years writing what is supposed to be the Luzerne County budget. He also is responsible for the generically written bond issues that are in contention now. I know he was limited by his political masters when he put together the last budget that was supposed to be balanced by more aggressive tax collection and revenue from land sales that didn't happen and I'm sure that he knew that wouldn't work out. The debit card mess that he was in the middle of has to be another incentive to get out of the public eye.

Let's hope the Commissioners hire a non-political CPA type to replace him.