This is not an AG item to investigate. Lopresti is part of the problem. He’s a backbench opportunist, who only cares about how he looks to his community. His solution is to spend money on an investigation that is not warranted.

A request for bids was put out and the 16 eligible contractors answered back with their bids based on the specification provided by the DOE.

State contracts require the prevailing wage for their respective trades in the union. The average prevailing wage is about $45 an hour.

Perhaps we as a state should be blaming ourselves, because we (through our elected officials) are the ones that put these rules into effect that caused these bids to be higher than expected.

This is the law of unintended consequences!