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Page 4-B Carofina Review FLAP OVER....The flap of two weeks ago about five N.C. Department of Administra tion officials drawing big pay checks and not doing anything for the money is over. At the time, properly outraged legislative supporters of the governor fast disputed all ac cusations of the anonymous letter written cooperatively by five disgruntled clerial employees in Sec. Jane Pat terson’s department. The tipsters did not step for ward to back up their unsign ed letter, so by last week well, not a creature was stirring. No doubt clerical workers for the state (or anywhere else) ought not be able to jot down a nasty-maybe jealous -letter and automatically set the wheels of legislative in quiry to rolling. But there was something fishy about this episode. Few people in Raleigh, lawmakers, state workers, even people close to the governor, felt the scribbl ed sarcasm was totally untrue. Most lawmakers accepted the facts in the letter as “facts of life.” “That’s the way love goes,” said one senator, implying that it was just “the way the political game is played.” Is it? The. ( unfortunate truth seeing ife be that state govern ment has a lot of hard working middle and lower level people doing the best they can with whatever they got. These busy, little “worker bees” though, are carrying a lot of dead weight -some people who would like to be “queen bee,” and some who are just unintelligent but happen to know someone. Some higher level jobs are merely political payoffs with high-sounding titles (people in these jobs attend conferences in resort areas and write directives for the worker bees to buzz about). All of the talk about “riff ed" (laid-off) employees the past two years is true, but the “riffs” were the worker bees and not the dead weight. That, according to a Department of Transportation employee who has seen his engineering divi sion cut from 28 to 3 while the P.R. office has rolled merri ly along. Let’s be more specific, go ing back to the Dept, of Ad ministration and Miriam Dorsey, a Democratic party activist and one of the people cited by the anonymous let ter. The letter called Dorsey’s recent appointment as the oolicy adviser for women’s af fairs as the “latest charade. I called the N.C. Office of Policy and Planning and spoke with Dorsey’s boss, Margaret Riddle. Ms. Riddle was real nice and tried to help me. I wanted to know who held Dorsey’s job before Porsey. “Ted Parrish,” said Riddle, “He’<» now with the Dept, of Human Resources.” “You mean a man previously held the position as a policy adviser for women?” I was a little surprised. Apparently not. Riddle was patient enough to explain that Parrishe’s long-ago leaving had left a “vacant slot,”. which was eventually filled by creating the Dorsey spot. According to Riddle, Par rishe’s duties were “absorbed.” “There are a lot of changes going on in the block grant process (federal funding),” Ms. Riddle said, “Jane (Sec. Patterson) wanted someone to look at the impact of those changes on women.” I tried to be objective. I really did, but Ms. Riddle was unable to convince me that Dorsey’s job was necessary. This doesn't have to be an indictment of Gov. Hunt, or own Ms political appoint ments. Frankly, we should oxpect-and appreciate political appointments and patronage in our political system. What has happened M state government over the several years could hap pen to any governor. It only hrtm** an indictment of Gov. Bunt if be ignores the warrant state of worker morale and the hxficrous jot descriptions that seem to haw surfaced of late. nfwwwv wot p I sasyagyasy“ ps "~- ~c,i> '~ ) wWll IIVI MtvtVH PRICES EFFECTIVE THRU SAT., APRIL IS AT ASP IN EDENTON Ik WITH DOWN HOME PRICES! JJ ITEMS OFFERED FOR SALE NOT AVAILABLE TO OTHER 11 L ! 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