Wednesday, May 04, 2005

The Con is On

Here we go Sheriff Plummer is getting ready for the big shake down. He’s balking at taking budget cuts. Orloff our incompetent DA is balking with him and they’re balking right to the press. Yeah, the Sheriff is hurting so bad they have four officers guarding one patient with twenty-five tubes and enough meds on board to take out a bull elephant. If current trends continue we’ll have more sheriff’s than nurses on the hospital floors.

Besides, the supes fell all over themselves at the budget meetings to give the Sheriff more money, and have already promised any “additional funds” which magically appear in the budget would go the Sheriff.

So if the Sheriff and DA can balk for bucks, how come no one’s out balking for healthcare, where’s the Authority Board, where’s Dave Kears, where’s the leadership?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

There was an article in the Contra Costa Times yesterday, pointing out that DA Tom Orloff, and Sheriff Plummer, both of whom are wailing "no room for more cuts" to the Supes, are the number 2 and number 3 highest paid county employees, and that a lot of their staff are raking it in. Sorry, don't have link.