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Re: Be careful but not afraid

igliigli — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:36:19 -0500

State Auditor Wood's priority should be the sports booster clubs and the professional sports teams.

Re: Be careful but not afraid

Kingixolib — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:22:30 -0500

You didn't dig deep enough.

Re: Be careful but not afraid

squireofhr — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:10:06 -0500

Last I checked she never ran for an office before... She ran against her boss and won. Love it when people talk before they fact check...

http://projects.newsobserver.com/profiles/beth_wood

Re: Be careful but not afraid

Kingixolib — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:53:44 -0500

Be very afraid!

Another career politician......believe what you want but the facts are that it's all about her re election and not a thing about the taxpayers of this state.

Well Darn

PoliticalJunkie — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:25:24 -0400

I wanted to give Dennis Patterson a good swift kick but I guess I can't. I'll just have to say that there isn't a bigger partisan hack in State Government right now - and that's saying something.

Makes me long for the days of immeasurably less partisan Auditors like Ralph Campbell and Les Merritt.

Re: Auditor disputes employees claims

PaulTerrell — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:51:04 -0400

I know Landi Vance and I know she was targeted because she supported Les Merritt. These examples are just a small part of the thousands of examples of Democratic corruption and pay to play that exists her in NC. I personally heard from Beth Wood's own mouth that she would clean up the Auditor's office. That struck me as a insane comment from a candidate since the Auditor's Office was doing audits on state corruption that the Attorney General was ignoring.

Re: Auditor disputes employees claims

skeptical — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:36:05 -0400

I've been a state employee for 25 years and never heard of being RIF'd with severance pay and benefits. Usually it's a nice way to say "layed off" and the only benefit is preference if another job you're qualified for comes along. Sounds like somebody is lying.

Re: Auditor disputes employees claims

melted — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:11:36 -0400

Here we go again!!!!!!!!

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: Audit: Pay for M. Easley 'excessive'

concerned53 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:59:56 -0400

Why release in August an audit that was completed in January? Read the article in the N&O and you realize there is something fishy with all of this, as usual.

Also, click on Beth Wood above and tell me she hasn't spent too much time in a tanning both.

Re: Dome Memo: Chats and Debates

captainjack — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:41:31 -0400

Your post contains the following: "The videos were nominally meant to encourage state employees submit money saving ideas for cash prizes."

Heck, if the state employees were smart enough to have money saving ideas they would be smart enough to be working in the private sector. LOL