National President Dougan Issues Statement on Perry’s ‘Send Feds to a God Awful Place’ Comment
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact: Cory Bythrow,
Communications Director
Phone: (202)
255-9950
Washington, D.C.
– In
response to Governor Rick Perry’s recent
statement suggesting federal workers should be
reassigned to “some god awful place,” NFFE
National President William R. Dougan issued the
following statement:
“Governor Perry’s comments are
irresponsible and insulting to the 2.1 million
dedicated federal employees serving our country
every day. It comes as no surprise that he
would launch such baseless political attacks on
federal workers. He sees a political
opportunity in painting federal workers as a
symbol of big government, and he is exploiting
it to the fullest.”
“These ‘federal bureaucrats’
he so often refers to are not a bunch of
overpaid, under-worked paper pushers in
Washington like the Governor would like people
to believe. They are the nurses and doctors who
care for our veterans, the border patrol agents
that protect our nation from drug and human
smuggling, and the firefighters who save
thousands of homes and businesses each year
fighting wildfires – including those that
ravaged Texas just this year. These are the
workers Perry insults when making comments like
these.”
“If Governor Perry wants to know what ‘a god awful place’ looks like, he should imagine Texas without thousands of dedicated federal employees defending its border, staffing its VA hospitals, and extinguishing its wildfires.”
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