Our Integrity-Impaired Governor Lies Again

Christine Gregoire, the unimaginably dishonest governor of the state of Washington, continues to weave her lies as she postures doom and gloom to justify raising taxes this next year.

This governor cavorts with some of the most obnoxious union thugs in the labor “business” and then blames the greed of state employees for her looming budget woes. This governor’s equally big-labor predecessor, Gary Locke, with a Democrat legislature, passed the state’s first law requiring collective bargaining AND requiring (12th hour insertion in to the contract) ALL non-management employees to belong to the union. Gregoire has had yearly opportunities to submit legislation to reverse that at contract termination, and has not done so.

I am blessed that I am management and thus not a part of the union. These are awful people who have no more interest in the individual members than Enron Execs did of their employees. Gregoire knows this and continues her cavorting; to then blame the employees for her budget woes is an outright lie. Over this last year, she and the bleeders spent $4 BILLION in one-time stimulus funds to balance the budget so they would not have to curtail spending they had put in to place or to offend taxpayers with tax increases. She loves the word "sustainability." How sustainable is THAT?(Thank you, states with balanced budgets for contributing, albeit unwillingly, to our fiscal irresponsibility.) The budget has exploded…and she blames the employees. Wow! What does she smoke! I am fervently anti-union as unions are just one more irresponsible big business working against the public interest but not all the individual employees are greedy (many are). Given the uncertain economy and the uncertainty of the public opinion of the democrats over the next few years she is simply making sure the finger is not pointed at her for the budget woes.

If she means her assertion that employees (she does not say the word “union”) are responsible for our “situation” then we should expect some legislation to curb the goons this next session, beginning in early January.

Unless you look good in blue, I would not hold your breath.

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