State employees, not surprisingly, have been - along with teachers - the main constituency for tax-and-spend policies in this state. In a state with few workers unionized in the private sector, the NEA affiliate - and the state employees association - are the only "organized labor" with a cadre organization in every county.
Worst of all for the liberals in Raleigh, the state employees angrily chanted "Vote them out!" today - and openly referred to the governor mainly using the state chopper to ride back and forth to his home at the beach, and the high raises to state-university bureaucrats while the state supposedly is in so much of a budget crunch that state workers get no raises.
Hehehe....no raises for teachers and state employees in an election year.....