Democrats saving the day???

By former State Representative Lee Quandt

Mmm. Mmm, Mmm, democrat Donna Schlachman said the democrats have saved the day; Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.

A recent Op-ed piece by Rep Donna Schlachman was in the local newspaper touting the typical liberal propaganda as to how the democrats have saved the free world with their fiscal responsibility, and how the republicans are all evil. Republicans are not evil. They might be having a problem pulling the party together. Some are not too smart, but, they are not evil. I know. I deal with them on a daily basis. We are trying to build up trust in the party; however that is another column for another day. About the only thing that was factual in Rep. Schlachman’s piece is that there is a seventy six million dollar rainy day fund.

If you believe the state is in good financial health, stop reading because you won’t believe what I’m going to say anyway.


Months of negotiations between Gov Lynch and the SEU ended in a stalemate. The Governor and his Democratic controlled legislature threatened and used tactics of intimidation at every session. After the employees could go no further with the negotiations, the best deal they could get was put before the membership. I was flabbergasted. After ten months of threats and intimidations by the Governor and the democratic controlled legislature, the employees voted against the contract language. Some members even stated “I know I will probably get laid off; but, I will see these people at the polls.”

Right now the state has 1,357 vacant positions, for a total savings of approximately ninety eight million dollars. I’ve been told we have about seventy six million more that could be saved by getting rid of the consultants/private contractors.

While Donna and the Democrats have lost sight of the political and economic ball, and are constantly threatening the employees with another 750 layoffs, the whole program got away from them. They probably should have paid more attention to this than their crazy liberal social agenda.


What the Governor and democrats don’t realize is that the state employees run the state, pay bills, plow roads, process the hiring of other employees through personnel, take in money and pay out money. In other words, they make the state run. Who knows more about how an organization works other than the employees. It is like the old saying in the military, “if you want to know what is going on, ask a SGT”. When your employees come to you with proposals for huge savings and you reject them, what does that make you? How about the south end of a north bound horse?

You will hear how the liberal democrats try to reach out to the Republicans. Does it sound like it? They are not only trying to change the facts and divert the discussion away from how bad they stuck it to the state employees, they are also hiding behind a vail of bogus Op-ed pieces of how they screwed up the budget and the State.

The republicans share a small responsibility in this mess. They have not done a very good job of getting the word out as to what has happened and what is going on, but again, that’s another column for another time.

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, the democrats are not doing so well, Mmm, Mmm Mmm.