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Re: Worker says he was targeted for politics

mountainman — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:39:29 -0400

This kind of political harassment occurs in every department of state goverment.It has become business as usual for the supervisors and department heads in DOT to harass and politically intimadate their few republican employees. There are very few Republicans in DOT because they only hire democrats,and the republicans that were hired during Jim Martins term as governor have been fighting for their jobs since he left office. DOT has zero tolorance policy for harassment??? Who will enforce it???? Not DOT supervisors,Division engineers,secretary of trans or the governor. The democrats in DOT make the mafia look like the boy scouts.

Re: Worker says he was targeted for politics

BitterEXdemocrat — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:56:24 -0400

Beth Wood is WAY too chicken to HIRE FERN SHUBERT! She's the woman who OUGHT to be running the show in the Auditors office if there was any
sense in NC!

Re: Worker says he was targeted for politics

BitterEXdemocrat — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:53:05 -0400

Another example of INTOLERANT LIEBERAL democrackkk SLAVE DRIVERS!

Re: Worker says he was targeted for politics

rsquared11 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:45:08 -0400

Second verse, same as the first...

Once again the Democrats are involved in another scandal. Once again, the new auditor is involved in a scandal. I thought auditor was the one position that was not supposed to be about politics.

From Beth Wood's campaign website:
The Office will adhere to the duties for which it was created, and will no longer be used to promote political agendas.

The work performed by the Office will be objective and independent of political or personal agendas.

Employment will not be based on political favors but on knowledge, skills and experience.

Re: Worker says he was targeted for politics

Isaac136 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:04:26 -0400

I think there's little question that he was targeted for removal. It's how things are done. The Democrats have held power a long, long, long time, and this is part of the modus operandi. It's wrong, but it goes on and most of the time, people just shrug.

It would be a welcome change of pace to see our leaders speak out against this practice. But they won't, of course, since they're the ones who ensure it's continuance.

It's especially unfortunate to see this in the auditor's office, which should be taking special care to avoid the appearance of this kind of chicanery. But this is the same auditor's office that refused to release the audit on Easley until the political heat became unbearable.

Most folks in state government who are subject to similar treatement don't have the advantage of a politically hot issue to propel the injustice into the news.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

informed — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:22:53 -0400

Goes to show you can't legislate ethics any more than morality, and it doesn't take a team of lawyers to determine what's ethical any more than it does to determine what is immoral. The current crop of state leadership should be ashamed, and do whatever it takes to clean house. Camelot is dead, it only remains to be seen whether the coming revolution will be peaceful.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

rsquared11 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:22:34 -0400

Something does not pass the smell test here. Of course, most things involving Easley, Rand, Wood, etc. don't. The fact that our auditor is crying about an audit being picked apart is funny. Don't most people that get audited complain? Come on......

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

BitterEXdemocrat — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:28:43 -0400

Get Tony Rand's name OFF the NC Real Estate Commission HQ on Navajo Drive.
It makes Brokers sick when they arrive for pleasant business.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

AgentPierce — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:12:14 -0400

If Boss Hawg could get nailed in this it would be BIG. Rand is as slick as c*ap thru a Christmas goose.

I'd pay cash money to see that arrogant walrus hauled off in chains.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

robdarich — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:42:41 -0400

Please state the statute that designates audits be filtered through state legislators, is Tony Rand specifically assigned to this duty, or is this simply what it sounds and smells like?

Wasn't a new governor going to be all about the anti-corruption? That sure turned out to be a bag of nothing.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

Heatherbrook — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:33:28 -0400

Why would Beth Wood care if Tony Rand punched holes in Les Merrit's audit report? Did she forget that the audit was done before she became State Auditor?

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

Takingaim — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:06:49 -0400

I'm with sky5714 and want to know about Susan Rabon's testimony. Seems like she could shed a lot of light on Easley's dealings and the hiring of many positions in his administration. Hope someone is following up and will report on this.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

guppyman45 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:49:47 -0400

greasey easley slides again.

Wood just reserved her seat...

PoliticalJunkie — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:48:26 -0400

...on the same bus that took Meg Scott Phipps to the Women's correctional facility in W. Va.

She's in way way way over her head. And she just missed the life preserver that was thrown her way. Oh well, just confirms she ain't real bright.

Re: Wood testifies about Easley audit

sky5714 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:32:44 -0400

Plato -
WRAL has the 39-pg audit document - just search "former easley aide ..." - it was with yesterday's story.