Deval Patrick transfers 500 managers to public union rolls, will issue pardons

Stephanie

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And you put these corrupted Bastards from the Democrat party in positions of POWER over you and rest of us. Nothing frikken shady here

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posted at 9:31 am on October 19, 2014 by Jazz Shaw
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This is the season when elected officials, nearing the end of their terms, conduct all sorts of interesting housecleaning business before they pack their things and go. Most famously, presidents will issue rafts of pardons just before leaving office, but Governors have the same options – and others – available to them. It turns out that Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has some housekeeping of his own to take care of, and a big chunk of it has to do with keeping in good graces with the unions.

As he prepares to leave office, Governor Deval Patrick is quietly transferring 500 of his managers into the state public employee union, a move that will qualify them for a series of 3 percent raises and insulate them from firing when the next governor takes over.

The change will automatically convert 15 percent of the 3,350 executive branch managers into members of the National Association of Government Employees, which has been fighting for the change for years, arguing the employees were “improperly classified” as managers.
While smaller clusters of management positions have been converted into union positions in the past, this is the largest sweep into the union in at least two decades, according to administration and union officials.


The move was immediately endorsed by Martha Coakley, who is running to replace Patrick. You would think that anyone running for statewide office in the Bay State on the Democrat ticket should be a sure thing, with little to worry about from this. But Coakley remains the one, horrible candidate who seems able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory there, and currently trails Charlie Baker in a tight race.


It will also solidify Deval’s army of union supporters if he has any future political ambitions after leaving the Governor’s mansion. But he’s got more on his plate than locking in the union’s power. Remember those pardons I mentioned above? Patrick has a few of those on deck also.

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Deval Patrick transfers 500 managers to public union rolls will issue pardons Hot Air
 
The first order of business for a Republican Governor is to decertifiy those employees and then fire the ones who are Democratic political operatives.

A Civil Service should not be politicized.
 
Sounds like he's establishing his bona fides for a run. I often have predicted he would be the Democratic candidate. The Dems have a winning formula: a clean articulate black man promising free government cheese to inner city Negroes. And Patrick sure fits the formula.
 

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