McGavick saved Safeco from failing

I hope a few people can read “between the lines” in last week’s debate between Maria Cantwell, Mike McGavick and Bruce Guthrie. Maria tried to smear McGavick by saying he laid off 1,700 workers at Safeco to get a bonus. The facts that she left out were that his job was hopefully to save the company from going “bankrupt” which would have cost many thousands more to lose their jobs and great damage to all their clients.

McGavick did the right thing, saved the company and their clients, and saved everyone else’s jobs in the process. Apparently Maria would have “temporally” saved the 1,700 jobs at a dying company but let Safeco, their clients, and all the employees go down the drain in the “long run.”

I’m sure McGavick received no “bonus” until after the company returned to profitability. Therefore he earned it.

This illustrates how “out of touch” many in congress are with financial matters. They are the ones with the “Tax em to death, then tax em again” attitude.

Clark Chase

Lake Stevens