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Re: If you're exempt, quit

Isaac136 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:58:43 -0500

Winsfore is correct that most of these positions are occupied by professionals who EARNED their positions the hard, old fashioned way and who do work hard for the state. Nor are they big contributors if they contribute at all. Unfortunately, they have to answer to the political hacks who are awarded positions on commissions and boards and whose sense of entitlement is purchased.

That's why this cannot be called a step toward reform. Rather, Bev is sending a signal to the legitimate workers that notwithstanding their years of work, their qualifications and their service to the state, their positions are to be played with like so many pawns on a chessboard.

Meanwhile, the political spoils system is still in place, as we'll see.

Re: If you're exempt, quit

winsfore — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:08:26 -0500

Many of the people in the policy exempt positions are professionals in their field who worked their way up through the ranks -- not political people. Those who were professionals with at least 10 years of state service before going into a policy exempt position also have some protection under state law. The new administration can replace them, but must find them another position at the same level as the position they were in before becoming exempt.

Re: If you're exempt, quit

FloydTurbo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:43:17 -0500

Dumpling MUST keep that dimwit that Easley had in charge of the e-mail program ..... who "don't even know how to turn my computer on".

Of all of Easley's dimwit cronies that one was always my "favorite".

Re: Probation head is out

viking95 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:51:28 -0500

A change was needed. I hope the new Director will be someone who has worked in the field in the modern day of probation. We need someone who understands that all programs are not great programs. Supervision, Supervision lets just focus on Supervision. Brass Tax. We need to try to focus on the probation judgement and not risk needs and case plans.

Re: If you're exempt, quit

rmmlem — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:36:52 -0500

I suppose she means to quit collecting their paychecks because most quit their jobs many months or years ago.

Re: If you're exempt, quit

Isaac136 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:00:52 -0500

Wow. I guess the Gov's office figures this will be hailed as a step toward "reform," but that's not what this is. This is a way of letting each employee from top down know that if you cross the governor, you're out.

Easley operated the same way, but he didn't announce it quite this way.

Reform would be cleaning out the commissions and boards that are filled by political fat cats whose eligibility to sit on those commissions and boards has been determined through the size of their political donations.

Re: If you're exempt, quit

ukidding — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:28:18 -0500

Bev,
They have.

Re: Perdue picks staffer to interact with public

FFC1304 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:58:24 -0500

Good move, dumplin! ... Confuse em with your empathy for faith based, government directed mandates for distributing religious donations...

Hey Bev, what about NC being the HIGHEST TAXED STATE in the region? WHATcha gonna do about that BS?

Did ya'll hear the angry NC caller on Rush Limbaugh yesterday? Its true, NC is more corrupt than NJ and LA combined it seems, even WITH such a sweet new governess coming in.

Re: Perdue picks staffer to interact with public

Isaac136 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:52:26 -0500

I don't understand why religious groups are categorized differently from constituent groups or from members of the public.

Re: Perdue picks staffer to interact with public

FloydTurbo — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:22:28 -0500

...."....ensure a diverse pool of applicants for boards and commissions"...."......

The mind reels at what "Star Wars Cantina" that will produce. Whenever a Democrat politician says "faith" he/she is saying "anti-Christian".

Re: Perdue appoints Willis, Crowder

FFC1304 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:31:25 -0500

carmen hooker odum? didnt she leave under duress and flee to new york?

Re: Perdue appoints Willis, Crowder

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:23:53 -0500

Fixed. Thanks.

— RTB

Re: Perdue appoints Willis, Crowder

englewood — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:18:59 -0500

Ahhh..... Courtney Crowder is a "he".

Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

htkirbys — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:58:58 -0500

When Perdue claimed the Democratic nomination in her Raleigh victory party, she singled out Adams for special thanks. Richard Moore's campaign had put out both TV and radio ads (the latter aimed specifically at African-American radio stations) making very farfetched suggestions that Perdue was a racist. The silliest was to try to make her seem responsible for baseball caps adorned with the Confederate flag that were for sale at the truck stop in Georgia, which a stepson of hers owned. The purpose of the ads by the Moore campaign was to split off the black vote from Perdue. The ads backfired, since they portrayed African-Americans as stupid enough to believe any such thing; Moore's ads were themselves racist.

Alma Adams vigorously defended her friend, Bev Perdue. And after the primary was over, she suggested that Moore should "hide under a rock for all the dirt he did."

For her integrity, courage, loyalty, and effectiveness as a legislator, Adams certainly deserves a place in Perdue's cabinet.

Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

domewatcher — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:51:50 -0500

Rep. Adams looks so nice in her hat!

It’s a shame that hats are not as fashionable as they once were. I can remember back in the 1940’s and 1950’s when women wore hats most of the time, and especially to church on Sunday. Easter Sunday was the height of hat fashion as every woman pulled out her favorite “Easter Bonnet.”

It gave you something to do during the sermon. While the preacher was wailing away us men could study the women’s hats. Most hats had a fish net with all sorts of stuff stuck into it. And many hats had several big bird feathers. And they were real bird feathers as fake bird feathers had not been invented by Al Gore yet. I sat in the rear, in the sinner’s row, and loved to gaze across the congregation of hats. It was like visiting a turkey farm. All those feathers bobbling up and down. The gobbling came later, on the ride home for not paying attention to the preacher.

I cleaned out my mother’s attic many years ago and found all her old hats. They brought back many memories. She did have one I kept, a big felt hat with a wide brim and lots of feathers…..really weird. I wear it when I visit Chapel Hill. It makes me fit right in.