Colorado WINS, the big state employees’ union, feels your pain. Oh, you didn’t know? Our state’s in crisis, and they’re the only ones who can save us.

More on that in a moment on the Face The State Radio Minute.

Colorado WINS, the big state employee union, recently held a convention. Union loyalists were shown a video depicting flood and famine – images from the Gulf Coast of slums, Hurricane-ravaged homes and the like. The moral of the story: state employees are the only line of defense Colorado has against, uh, Hurricanes. No, floods. Wait, I’m confused.

Hurricane Katrina was a tragedy, but it has nothing to do with our state government. Nor does the healthy dose of Bush-bashing members partook in, either. It’s OK for Colorado WINS to acknowledge openly that it exists to play politics. What’s another word for “representation” before government? Oh, right, “lobbying.”

Invoking real tragedy as a cover for raw politicking stoops pretty low.

For FaceTheState.com, I’m Brad Jones.