Or could it be because it is almost impossible to fire a state employee?
An article that easily could not have been written.
ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!!
Can't have the truth leaking out.
I read this story in our local Oroville paper, buried in another story. I wondered why this even warranted a mention...The social media angle did catch my eye as I have seen reports of issues going on with the dam that TPTB might not want to highlight.
Strange story indeed.
Lets throw up a big smoke screen to hide the true incompetence
Oroville Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago
Who is this guy??? What does he make a year from taxpayers??? ................ DWR Acting Director Bill Croyle? Acting Director??? Where is the Director? Where is Jerry Brown???
My very first reaction, too. We are led to believe all those state employees are angels? Right.
I’m gonna take a wild guess and go with #2.
“Social media policy”
Awe, isn’t that a cute little term.
Thou shalt not hunt in the King’s forest.
Thou shalt not opine about the state of his royal waterworks; Or anything else related to his kinglyness - lest thine employment be expired.
Private contractors hired to work on dams? Hmmm, does
that mean that there is a State Dept of Dam Repair that COULD
be doing the work? Why, the next thing you know they’ll
be telling us that private contractors build and repair
freeways even though we have CalTrans!
Kalifornia drug testing is mandatory for equipment operators not do-nothing state office workers.
The comment was misleading
I'm taking this to mean that the engineer on YouTube video who said "stay the hell out of Oroville" has been fired.
I am confused, are you saying that these non government workers that may, and probably are using drugs while working on critical public infrastructure should not be terminated because of the extreme difficulty in terminating a union government employee? Well sorry I can’t agree, I have worked on construction jobs with drug users and they are too damn dangerous to have on a job, sooner or later someone gets hurt bad and too often it’s not the user.
Wonder if the state is making timely payments to all of the contractors.
It would be a shame to see the state slow-walk the payments for services rendered.
Unfortunately, that's not what happens. Even as their mistakes become evermore blatant and deadly, the progressives keep getting elected and re-elected, while California's law-abiding tax payers clean up and pay for their messes.
It is said that the rain falls on the just and the unjust and Californians, after such a long and severe drought, have been praying hard for rain.
Apparently, their prayers are being answered and now it's going to rain hard!
In these days of dramatic Climate Change, it's best just be thankful its only a sudden rain and not a Soddom rain, because that's the hardest rain of all, doncha know.
The dam will be the final judge here. If it collapses, it will cause a re-alignment of the political situation in California. Not quite enough to turn the state red - they need Trump to clear out the Illegals and fix the voting system for that - but enough to at least give Republicans a chance at winning once in a while.
It is only when the masses out there realize that the Dems have been living in the house that “daddy built” without maintaining it for decades, will they realize that Dems cannot be trusted to run the state. They are not there, yet, but if that dam collapses, they will be there.