Letter: Sick of public employees devoting energies to being elected

We pay officials to fulfill
their duties, not campaign

Re: “Presidential candidates descend on San Francisco as state Democratic convention kicks off” (Eastbaytimes.com, May 31):

I must be a bit thick. I worked in county government over 32 years and we had to account for our time “on the job” to be paid.

Elected members of the state and federal governments are also public employees, paid by us for their “service.” I am sick of seeing public employees directing their energies to being elected and travelling nationwide rather than to their sworn duties enumerated in the governmental oath of office, which states in part, “I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office.”

The hubris exhibited (against their constituents) is appalling.

Patrick Adams
Dublin

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