TNGOP Communications Director Concedes “Sluggish” Economy

By Kleinheider Posted on July 30, 2008 at 8:12 am

Bill Hobbs says that the Governor should not be surprised by the reticence of state workers to accept buyouts in a poor economy:

Tennessee’s governor - whose net worth is north of $100 million - continues to seem surprised that so few state employees took his “buyout” offer to quit their jobs to help the state cut expenses as the economy turned sluggish. He shouldn’t be. He ran around all spring declaring the sky is falling, and then asked thousands of his employees to consider stepping out from under the roof over their heads and let it fall on them.

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