Posted on 01/14/2022 6:06:47 AM PST by MAGA2017
Kittitas County leaders revealed Wednesday that the Washington State Department of Transportation refused assistance to clear snow from roadways in the region over the county’s lack of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its workers.
According to a press release from the county, the state’s own vaccine mandate saw WSDOT terminate 48 employees who were previously tasked with “maintenance and snow removal in Kittitas County.”
Days after the arrival of significant snowfall in early January, Kittitas County’s Department of Public Works says it “offered assistance [to WSDOT] to clear State roadways,” and that its offer was refused “due to Kittitas County not mandating the COVID-19 vaccination for County employees.”
County leaders were critical of WSDOT’s decision in statements sent out this week.
“During these times, we need to be able to put differences aside and work to support one another,” County Commissioner Laura Osiadacz said. “It needs to be neighbors helping neighbors and lending a hand to get the work done.”
“This county is ready, as always, to put all hands on deck to solve this problem,” County Commissioner Cory Wright added. “It’s time for logic and leadership to overcome ideology and allow skilled equipment operators working alone in their cabs to get this job done.”
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Easy enough for the county to plow in the residences of state employees.
“We won’t help you because you still employ Jews. We only help those of the master race.”
Fire the vaccine dictators.
Fire the vaccine dictators.
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EXactly. Don’t need all those people if the work is not being done.
Virtue Soapboxing is a 24/7 job.
I had to read that many times to get that it did mean what I thought it said. Folks, it’s bad.
As asymptomatic vaccinated workers spread the virus…
(Current WA stats 50% of cases are breakthroughs. Some serious cognitive dissonance.)
Just east of Ellensburg there’s a steep hill climb on I-90 with a 6% grade that goes straight up for six or eight miles. I forget the name of the pass.
So true. These tyrannical bureaucrats all need to be fired. Maybe the county should make some employment decisions and fire some hard-core leftists immediately. The county needs to return the favor.
Sounds like a Unionista thing.
So sit there and freeze.
Or, you could do something about it.
But you will probably just sit there and freeze.
Trump won this county easily 53.5% to 43.2%.
What the heck is going on?
Well..you guys got a sheriff? Get a posse together and kick the DOT to hell out of your county. While your at it, kick all state agencies to hell out also.
Then do the work yourselves.
We always called it 10-mile hill. head west from the Columbia River on I90.
As a former PW Director/City/County Engineer I always directed my crews to keep their plows on the ground regardless of crossing jurisdictional boundaries for a couple hundred feet. As far as the public is concerned, they don’t differentiate where the county line road stopped and became a city or state road.
The County Commissioner in the case should have said to hell with it and ordered their plows to make work. Let Inslee and the Commie State AG defend their actions in court if they wanted to sue the County. This was a matter of safety of the general public and also cost Millions of dollars in lost commerce.
And Jay Inslee remains silent.
Nope, a government thing.
As a side note, I know of a case where a public union is protecting its members from the vaxx mandate.
So what’s the problem.
Just make sure the snowplow operators keep their windows up.
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