cherie berry

If you're a voter who wants to see public institutions destroyed through gross incompetence, law-breaking and sleaze, vote for Republican leaders. They hate government, and it shows.

A state agriculture official leaked information about a raid on a Butterball turkey farm in Hoke County last month to company officials six days before the raid, according to a search warrant released Wednesday. [snip] ... the animal rights group Mercy for Animals provided authorities with video of employees kicking and stomping birds, dragging them by their wings and necks and throwing turkeys around.

Adam Linker's headline at Progressive Pulse says it all:

Steve Troxler and Cherie Berry get tax-payer funded health insurance while trying to block health care for all North Carolinians

Who knows how we can recall the incompetent ideologue recently elected as Commissioner of Labor? Either that, or rename her Commissioner of Management.

Since that time, Commissioner Cherie Berry has pursued what might be most charitably described as a "minimalist" approach to her job. Though paying official lip service to the notion that workplace safety is her top priority, Berry has done virtually nothing in eight years to advance that cause in a new or affirmative way. For the most part, she has pursued an approach in which she purports to work with employers in a cooperative rather than and adversarial manner. In reality, it has been an approach in which she mostly does what she can to minimize fines and other tough enforcement actions.

from the Charlotte Observer:

The Observer's recent interview with Republican N.C. Labor Secretary Cherie Berry sounded like a satire on how public officials work.

Staff writer Ames Alexander asked her whether she planned to do anything in response to the Observer's series describing workplace safety violations at poultry processing plants run by House of Raeford Farms, a big N.C. company.

Her answer: No.

Sunday the Charlotte Observer printed an interview with Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry. The interview covered her reaction to the groundbreaking investigation of the House of Raeford poultry plants.

Shocking is the only word that can be used to describe Berry’s reaction.

Back from the cold of New Hampshire I have found a new job. And it involves lots of conversations about chickens and elevators.