will steve bashear furlough employees?> one of the last things i wanted to do is furlough state employees because we were faced with a very difficult decision. we needed to have another $24 million and it was either have state employees take six days of furlough or i'd have to fire 415 of them because we had to balance a budget. our constitution requires it. i thought almost everybody would prefer to share a limit of the pain as opposed to 415 people losing their job. now, when i did that i took those six days myself. i took six unpaid days just like they did. i also have been writing a check for 10% of my salary back to the state treasury every month for about the last three years because if i am going to ask our state employees to sacrifice and they have. they have done so much more work than they ever done. some are doing two and three jobs because we reduced the size of the executive branch. if they sacrifice i feel i need to step up. the second year because the revenues are starting to come in and do better we announc

steve bashear ran a perfect campaign on focusing the choices that we made together in order to create and save jobs and expand opportunity. that is also what governor tomlin did in west virginia. in kentucky, at the close of the campaign, as he stay focused on jobs, his opponent went into her feel -- into peripheral issues and challenging the base of the governor's religious beliefs. they stay focused on the things good leaders do to bring people together to make the tough, but right decisions. in ohio voters disapproved of the governor's overreaching anti-u ideology by rejecting senate bill 5. this bill would have taken away collective bargaining rights from public employees, including moms and dads who happen to serve all of us as firefighters, police, or teachers. were people turned out to vote against -- more people turn out to vote against senate bill 5 then turned out to vote for the governor to begin with. the voters were saying enough, already, with the anti-union in deology. voters in all three of these states told us they want their leaders to bring people together to create