Thanks For Your Vote – Now Give Me Your Resignation Letter
Governor Re-Elect John deJongh has delivered the first of the post-election gifts to government employees with his demand for resignation letters from exempt employees - and there is more to come. Wootoop indeed!
This is a reminder to all you exempt government employees that your Governor Re-Elect John P. deJongh, Jr., wants your resignation letter today – but don’t put a date on it.
That’s right. And in case you weren’t clear, that message you got yesterday means that you are to write that you are resigning your position – but don’t include an effective date – and get it to the Good Governor before you leave work today.
And then just wait to see whether you are one of the few who is chosen to retain your position or whether you are going to join the rolls of the unemployed who inhabit your community.
The irony is painful – but we aren’t the least bit surprised – and no one else should be either.
You cannot – we repeat – cannot operate a government or any other business by borrowing to meet payroll and other operating expenses. We’ve been saying it for months. Revenues in the Territory remain flat and any money that does come in is consumed by debt service on the borrowing that has already occurred, including that tasty chunk of bonds and the cover over that’s been committed to Diageo.
The payroll has been consistently bloated for the past 18 months, with workers dropped mysteriously into positions where they did not perform, at salaries higher than long-time employees, and hefty pay increases for those who were to do no more than support “four more years!”
And although the damaging truth was right in front of us, some of you fell prey to the ridiculous campaign rhetoric centered on the flawed theme “we have not laid off any government employees.”
So we hope you enjoyed your fried fish. We hope you had fun while you danced in the parking lot with “John and Greg” and “Wootooped” your way into the unemployment line.
And it’s not over. This is only the beginning of the actions that will be taken because there is no way to maintain this level of government expense in the deficit position that we’re now operating.
And we know that there will be a request for more borrowing in the final session of this Legislature on December 28th – and those of you who re-elected those same senators and that same Governor can thank yourselves.
So tell the kids not to expect Santa this year, and get ready to understand what it’s been like for the rest of us – because while you’ve been dancing in the streets the Territory has been crumbling around you.
And if you want to do one more favor for your Governor, write that resignation letter and in doing so, waive your right to apply for unemployment compensation. That’s even less money this Government will have to spend to clean up this financial mess they’ve made – with your support if you cast your vote for them.
So Merry Christmas everybody.
See how much food “Wootoop” will put on the table.
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The Board has made a recommendation to the joint board of elections to fire Webber. He hasn’t been fired yet. Anita Davilla, Carmen Golden, Lisa Harris-Moorehead and Patch Head Rupert Ross voted in favor of it, Bryan and Williams voted against and Dodson James was absent.
Hugo’s money pot is the LEAC. When we demand a forensic audit of WAPA, we will see what all is in the POT and how it is spent.
The Board will not request one, PSC did request one upon a rate increase THREE years ago….Nellie has a bill in to request one that Russell buried for two years……..if everything is on the up and up, where is the audit to prove that it is?
The IG did several and showed funny accounting…nothing became of it. Talk about corruption at all levels of the government.
@ Anon 6.03 am
NOBODY is perfect.It’s a matter of comparison….as some are soooo much more
culpable than others.
@ !-The whole idea of exempt employment has been politicized and prosituted by the deJongh Administration and those respnsible for the actual hiring of
these incompetents should be held accountable for the financial costs brought
about therefrom.
Watson glad that you realize nobody is perfect, not even you!
Be on the look out for any new fires in the Department of Labor, hell it just might be from the very top.. Whootoop!
@ 2.12
When did I give you the impression that I am Mr.Perfect,wise guy? Please do not confuse me with others.
No Watson you don’t confuse yourself with always thinking that you are right because that you are not! Opinions are a wonderful thing, we all have different ones. Get use to it!
Some of you regulars think that your opinions are the only ones that are right or matter but they are not. When someone doesn’t agree with you, you want to have a dispute about it. Get over yourself.
Isn’t Ann Golden the latest wolverine to be devoured by Percy the Wolf? Or is it by Stuart Rames. Give us the dirt please anyone.
Somebody put out a hit on Anne as she was taking it to WAPA hard on her show questioning their mismanagement and 51 cents per KWH. She appears to have been replaced by Jerry Groner who is WAPA Board Chairman to sing the praises of WAPA. Next week Noel Loftus will be hosting Redfield’s show on WSTX….so there you have it. What is Kevin Rames doing this for?
Loftus is also on the WAPA Board and appears to be their #1 apologist. Look forward to a few hours of excuses everyday.
Governor Rames, to you.
The Most Powerful Man in the VI. He is now Percy’s boss.
I hope Commissioner Smalls protected himself and made recordings of all phone calls and with his cell phone record while seated at meetings with #1. He needs to turn that material over ASAP before it is altered. (Remember the Nixon tapes with 20 minutes of silence.) It appears now that the toothpaste may be coming out of the tube, finally.
not okj