Posted on 01/24/2011 12:47:48 PM PST by CedarDave
Former Gov. Bill Richardson signed a contract with a child care workers union on his last day in office that the new administration says could cost taxpayers a half-million dollars.
The contract covers an estimated 2,600 child care workers under contract with the state Children, Youth and Families Department to provide home care for the children of low-income parents. It sets up an arbitration and grievance process for child care providers who take state payments and establishes a system in which dues are deducted from paychecks and sent directly to their union.
Martinez's staff contends the contract will require CYFD to hire at least three new staff members and may require computer modifications that cost up to $500,000 to allow the union to collect dues from the independent child care workers.
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Richardson was prominent among the clintonoid gang of crooks. I presume he got a kickback of some kind for this.
He is a liberal.
And this was a sleazy act.
He is a liberal.
And this was a sleazy act.
I think Michigan is going through almost the exact same thing. Every private child care worker is, by default, in a union.
The dem governor of Iowa and at least one other crook in another state also did one of these corrupt eleventh-hour deals with the unions, which after all own the ‘rats hook, line & sinker. If any other vendor and big-time contributor inked a similar deal with a state official at the last minute before the gov’s term expired, both the vendor and the gov would likely be looking at hard time for what is essentially bribery and public corruption. Public employee unions, however, are allowed to get away with this; indeed, it is business as usual with democrats. Now that the GOP controls the state houses and governorships of a large number of states, laws should be passed to criminalize this sort of obviously corrupt practice.
But not just a liberal. He’s also a crook of the first order.
We are talking about the guy who was caught stuffing National Archives records down his pants, after all.
No that was Clinton's national security adviser Sandy Berger.
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