Unsuck DC Metro: 'Champion of Change'

Friday, January 11, 2013

'Champion of Change'

Metro union boss Jackie Jeter has been regaled with what appears to be quite an honor.

According to the award citation, she's a "dynamic leader" and someone who ensures "safe and affordable public transportation."

Who thought that?

Click here to find out.

Oh, and here's a choice Jeter quote from yesterday:

"Things have been happening on buses since Jesus was born."

Other items:

Metro coming after your tax money (Examiner)
Here's the whole budget. Note labor costs. Metro has since removed the link.
Metro warns of future fare increases (FOX5)

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pro union · 640 weeks ago

WOW! We're so screwed.

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Chris · 639 weeks ago

As another pro-union guy, I have to say that it's people like her and unions like hers that give all the others a bad name.

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BrianKal · 640 weeks ago

I just spit my milk out and fell out my chair laughing.

1 reply · active 640 weeks ago

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Heather · 640 weeks ago

I laughed my head off when I read that, as well. I thought oh this is cute, she's trying stand-up comedy, bless her heart.

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anon · 640 weeks ago

She's a champion for change alright--for the worse.

Labor fringe benefit costs up $30 million this year.

Oh and Metro is not counting on wage increases...hahahahah

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guest · 640 weeks ago

I've officially lost all hope things will ever get better.

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Sizzle · 640 weeks ago

"...and someone who ensures 'safe and affordable public transportation'."

Where?

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BrianKal · 640 weeks ago

Change you CAN'T believe in.

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dcn8v · 640 weeks ago

Clearly the president doesn't take Metro.

2 replies · active 640 weeks ago

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BrianKal · 640 weeks ago

The Secret Service won't let him as it is too unsafe.

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benny · 640 weeks ago

She does not take the Metro, she drives to the Union hall and did not drive a Bus very long either

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hrh king friday 13 · 640 weeks ago

"If it wasn't for unions, Rome wouldn't have been built in a week."
-Jackie Jeter

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Guest · 640 weeks ago

Nothing Obama does surprises me anymore. Hope and Change indeed.

1 reply · active 640 weeks ago

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Socket · 640 weeks ago

This is about as low as Obama could possibly go. Didn't somebody inform the White House what a sad joke this award would be? Or are they so beholden to the unions that they don't mind being a public laughing stock?

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Socket · 640 weeks ago

Oh. My. God.

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John · 640 weeks ago

If anyone here works for a democratic or republican representative, please send this tidbit up the chain, while explaining what a piece of garbage Jeter is.

Hopefully either democrats who dont want to be associated with her or republicans who want to use this to attack them will make the effort to take notice of this and get her removed from this list.

Barf!

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Guest · 640 weeks ago

I do not see any white men or women supporting her anymore. I think she has lost her mind with this off the wall comment.

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Chris · 639 weeks ago

Perhaps, but people have been making off the wall comments since the days when Julius Caesar would take the subway to Egypt.

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anon2 · 640 weeks ago

Actually this makes perfect sense. She's enabling spending now and forfeiting the future.

Jeter has done an excellent job of instilling a deep sense of entitlement for her members, and she's foiled Metro at every turn, securing wage increases in a time of fiscal crises and maintaining a pension program into which union members pay nothing. That's right nothing.

In the long term, this is not sustainable and something will have to give.

Dark days for Metro are ahead.

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benny · 640 weeks ago

She has entitled herself and her husband. Do you realize her salary + her husband's salary. These totals go toward their retirement.

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John · 640 weeks ago

Also, before the new year, someone said something to the tune of "Alpert is one of the most ridiculous caricatures of a smarmy liberal I've ever seen"

I just have to say...

I'm surprised they haven't based a character off of him in Portlandia....

2 replies · active 640 weeks ago

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Bob · 640 weeks ago

I said that, he really is. I really hate guys like him.

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John · 640 weeks ago

If there was a Portlandia character based on him, who would it be?

The aggressive bicyclist guy?

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Rory · 640 weeks ago

The link that's supposed to go to the Metro budget is going to a dead end.

3 replies · active 640 weeks ago

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 640 weeks ago

Was there this morning. Not sure why they took it down.

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BrianKal · 640 weeks ago

b.c. they realized they were oversharing, not the Metro way

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@ChrisHowdy · 640 weeks ago

Symbolism!

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Ever Confoozed · 640 weeks ago

Jesus rode a bus? Who knew?! I thought it was a donkey. Silly me.

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Socket · 640 weeks ago

Haven't you heard? Donkeys will now be used instead of buses when there's single-tracking during weekend maintenance because they are slighter faster.

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Chris · 639 weeks ago

As a red line rider, I would have loved to be able to catch a donkey to work this morning. Not only would it have been faster, but it would have smelled better.

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Heather · 640 weeks ago

Remember the Joan Osborn song from the 90's? "What if god was one of us....just a stranger on a bus...." I think that's where this woman got her information.

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Guest · 640 weeks ago

Or maybe from ZZ Top," Waiting for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago."

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karah 81p · 640 weeks ago

BTW, the fox5 link is also the bad wmata one.

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unsuckdcmetro 92p · 640 weeks ago

Bad day for links! It has been fixed.

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jbendavis 69p · 640 weeks ago

Everyone knows that when the Three Wise Men came to Bethlehem to give their gifts of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh to the newborn Savior, they had to take the bus to the inn just outside of town. Obviously they can't follow a star riding on an underground train!

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overtheriver2011 0p · 640 weeks ago

No problem. Nominate yourself and require Union members to vote for you a thousand times each.

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Guest · 640 weeks ago

Her husband probably nominated her. Anyone can nominate anyone on this link. What is up with Jeter's black eyes

I think we should nominate the men and women who risk their jobs and livelihood to report anomalies for the safety of the riding public...

not people like Jeter who ignore helping the members after being notified

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n2deep · 640 weeks ago

Democrats and unions make wonderful bedfellows. you got what you voted for!

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Rory · 640 weeks ago

The pants off subway pranksters are apparently going to try their annual stunt on Sunday:
http://www.facebook.com/events/395279137216742/

Is their any chance they'll actually stumble across a running train?

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K-anon · 640 weeks ago

I really think Jackie Jeter deserved a public shaming for the way she's run metro into the ground via unprecidented union power. It is shameful and she needs to hear from the hundreds of thousands of WMATA patrons about the disgust we have for her union's power mad tactics leading to totally UN industry standard labor perks. It's not anything close to normal and is undeserved based on performance of the average WMATA employee.

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UnSuck Fan · 640 weeks ago

Wow, are you serious?!? I saw a tweet on your feed indicating she worked for the White House, but wow! Maybe it would explain why we're in this recession. Just like the Metro system, Jackie Jeter got on the economic train and drove it into the ground too! I guess everything she touches suffers some sort of malfunction and derails!

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sss · 640 weeks ago

WTF is up with the double banner?

white house fail on two accounts

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benny · 640 weeks ago

This seems to be using Jesus' name in vain and I am really appalled.

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@VeggieTart · 639 weeks ago

I'm going to hope that she was being sarcastic with her comment about things happening on buses--although I will question the veracity of stuff *always* happening on buses since people started using them.

But the award? Are you kidding me?

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Susan · 639 weeks ago

I see a promotion in her future to Secretary of Transportation. Minority - check. Union card - check. Incompetent - check. She has a bright future ahead of her. Or maybe Secretary of Labor.

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Chris · 639 weeks ago

I work at DOL - please, not Labor!