MPAC

The speeches just concluded so I wanted to let you all know how things went. I thought Obama and Edwards really impressed the 1400 members in the audience. Hillary and Dodd did okay, and Richardson concluded by saying 'Thank you, AFSCME'. You should really spend the time and watch the videos once SEIU puts them on the webpage. I will try to link them into here to make it easy, but i've heard there will be tons of pictures at http://photos.seiu.org At the end of the speeches (Dodd, Obama, Richardson, Clinton, then Edwards) there was a strawpoll and I will update when we hear the results of that. Any questions about this let me know and I'll try to answer them. One interesting thing that I thought was cool was multiple candidates mentioned stopping the privitization of public employees jobs.

Con DOT and ODOT

There are two approaches to take on the growing amount of work to be done on our roads and transportation systems. 1) we can get more ODOT employees, much like Connecticut is doing or 2) you can contract out. I got a feasibility report today that costs taxpayers over 2 million dollars MORE to contract the job out rather than having ODOT employees do the work. What are your thoughts?