Fallin to Cut Public Safety with Trooper Layoffs

With personnel costs making up 93 percent of its budget, the Public Safety Department would have no choice but to furlough and possibly lay off troopers if it receives additional budget cuts in the upcoming fiscal year

Personnel makes up 93 percent of the budget because public safety is about having boots on the ground keeping law and order in our streets.  Can’t really do that with a reduction in people. 
No matter though, I’m sure in a state like Oklahoma we don’t have any chance of something bad happening, and even if it did happen I’m sure we wouldn’t need … say a Trooper to catch a criminal for it.  I mean that’s just nonsense.
In ad after ad during the 2010 campaign Fallin said she wanted “our children” to “stay here” to “find jobs” … just don’t apply for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol cause you’ll get laid off.

No word on if the cuts will require personal interviews from the Guv.

Fallin voted against funding for Community Oriented Policing Services

Mary’s political moves once again fail to keep people safe. 

Fallin voted against a bill that authorized $18.4 billion over six years for the Justice Department‟s Community Oriented Policing Services program and expanded types of activities eligible for program grants.

The bill eliminated the requirement that half of program funding go to grants in areas with populations of more than 150,000 people, increased from 3 percent to 5 percent the amount of funding used to provide technical assistance to states and localities, and required individuals recruited through the Troops to Cops program be honorably discharged members of the military.

Fallin voted against rights for state and local public safety officials

DC Mary not only hates the hard working class Oklahomans but she also voted against our public safety workers too.

One of Mary’s first actions in Congress was to vote against a bill that established limited salary negotiations for state and local public safety officials, including police officers and firefighters.

It required the Federal Labor Relations Authority to determine, within 180 days of enactment, whether a state allowed for certain rights for public safety employees, including the right to talk to their employer about working hours, working conditions, wages and other term of employment.

Mary claims she wants to keep Oklahoma safe, but the only thing Oklahoma needs protection from is Mary’s poor decision making and bad political motives.  Every working person deserves the right to discuss whatever they want with their employer and ask for what they think is fair.  

Taking that right away gives too much power to CEO's and they're already getting our bailouts ... er... I mean "tax incentives."