By Bob Cuddy -- County Social Services Director Lee Collins says the governor’s plan to fight fraud in In-Home Supportive Services has been “a mountain of bull---t from the get-go,” and he declined to apply for state money designed to fight fraud and abuse locally.“I did not apply for this funding because we can’t afford it, we don’t need it and I have no desire to play the governor’s game that, in my view, is fraud on the highest order,” Collins wrote in an e-mail to The Tribune.Gov. Arnold Schwarz-enegger on Monday announced that the state has made available $26.5 million in awards to counties “that will help root out fraud in this program.”

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