Layoffs For Thee
Not for “we.” Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s layoff plans clarify who the “we” was in “Together We Can,” his 2006 slogan that was echoed in Obama’s “Yes We Can,” like much of Patrick’s campaign rhetoric. Boston Herald: Patrick dumps 91, keeps pals.
Gov. Deval Patrick has issued pink slips to nearly 100 state Department of Conservation and Recreation workers but spared a high-paid trio including the sister of his campaign manager and her two pals, the Herald has learned.
DCR Commissioner Rick Sullivan confirmed 91 workers have been let go, including some who held their jobs for years.
But Patty Vantine - the sister of Gov. Deval Patrick’s campaign manager and state Democratic chairman John Walsh - and two friends she hired are not among those hitting the unemployment line.
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Vantine, a former accountant for the state Democratic party, was given a $20,000 raise last year that bumped her pay to $105,000 when she was promoted to a top DCR administrative post.
The Herald reported in May that Vantine hired her friend and Abington neighbor Kathleen Reilly to an $83,000-a-year administrative post. Reilly previously had worked for the state for 18 years but was a stay-at-home mom until Vantine brought her back onto the state payroll earlier this year.
Vantine also hired her Abington neighbor Kevin Whalen, a former analyst for State Street Corp., to a $68,000 “waterfront coordinator” position.
… Most of the cuts affected union workers and were done by seniority. Vantine, Reilly and Whalen, who have given a combined $2,000 to Patrick’s campaign, evaded termination because they’re valued non-union managers, Sullivan said.
I hope the Dem-loving SEIU and other state worker unions didn’t miss that part. Speaking of SEIU and AFSCME, via Malkin, Illinois home health workers reject union thuggery!
Anyway, like I said before, as goes Massachusetts so goes the nation, lately. Previously:
Patrick, Obama, ACORN And My Tax Dollars
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:26 am on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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