Damage to Marble at the Wisconsin State Capitol: Chapter 2

Remember this silliness?

Screenshot from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

(with highlight added)

$7,500,000.  A risible and deservedly lampooned figure that was quickly walked back.

And now we have this development.

"Wisconsin says suit possible over stained marble", Wisconsin State Journal, 2/11/2013.

Stained by workers for a cleaning service company hired to take the place of unionized state workers.

Excerpt:  State workers [my emphasis] began polishing the stained marble, most of it on the ground floor near the Rotunda, last week. It's expected to take up to two months to restore, at an estimated cost of more than $16,000.

Outsourcing didn't work so well.  I assume this directive came from the Department of Administration (look at all that white space) and not the State Capitol and Executive Residence Board, as no mention of contracting for janitorial services  is found in any of the board's minutes.  The company responsible for the damage, Peterson Cleaning Inc. of, ahem,  Rockford, Illinois, was fired in December 2012.

Lesson learned?  

Call me skeptical.