McGrew Sets the Record Straight?
Sgt. Mike McGrew's opinion piece this weekend was overall a good, chest-out-we-should-be-proud piece about our men in blue. They certainly work hard -- deserve good pay and our respect. A few things need to be pointed out, however:
1) He states that the police don't "bully" candidates -- wasn't it McGrew himself who used the words "take her out" when referring to the Mayor? Isn't he the one that brought up his boy's cancer status in front of the Mayor like she hadn't just had a double masectomy? She's used mafia talk in her native Chicago -- they aren't all bullys but I don't know if I'd say the POA are choir boys either.
2) He says that not one single officer makes over $100,000 a year but does not explain the overtime issue -- officers get a lot of overtime if they want it. In my job, I don't get close to the kind of overtime available to police officers or the base salary they receive. I'm also not putting my life on the line and realize that -- the question here is, shouldn't they have gotten the same 3% raise as the firefighters? Isn't that fiscally prudent?
The interesting thing to me is that he is responding to Lanny Ebenstein's ads and comments in forums -- but can't say that because they can't look like they are helping Mayor Marty "the Slugger" Blum...
1) He states that the police don't "bully" candidates -- wasn't it McGrew himself who used the words "take her out" when referring to the Mayor? Isn't he the one that brought up his boy's cancer status in front of the Mayor like she hadn't just had a double masectomy? She's used mafia talk in her native Chicago -- they aren't all bullys but I don't know if I'd say the POA are choir boys either.
2) He says that not one single officer makes over $100,000 a year but does not explain the overtime issue -- officers get a lot of overtime if they want it. In my job, I don't get close to the kind of overtime available to police officers or the base salary they receive. I'm also not putting my life on the line and realize that -- the question here is, shouldn't they have gotten the same 3% raise as the firefighters? Isn't that fiscally prudent?
The interesting thing to me is that he is responding to Lanny Ebenstein's ads and comments in forums -- but can't say that because they can't look like they are helping Mayor Marty "the Slugger" Blum...
posted by Sara De la Guerra | 10/18/2005 11:39:00 AM
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The clout of the police union will diminish over time. Their lame TV ads are expediting their own demise.
Hopefully candidates will stop pandering to them, or at least not pander so much anymore.
You can keep spouting Marty's line but these are the facts: Fire got 5% per year for three years. Stop and ask any of them. SEIU got 4% a year for 4 years. Go ask them. That is about 800 people. Now, according to the Slugger herself , she would have voted for the Police contract if her personal stance wasn't already known, that in fact she voted against all the contracts. So the courageous financial decision, the decison that keps the City from sliding into insolvency, is to not give 150 POA employees 1% more per year for half the amount of time of the SEIU contract and to give them 2% less per year than the Firefighters recieved for three years.
Perhaps some actual numbers instead of percentages of unstated numbers would be a better way to argue who is getting paid fairly.
Try again with actual salary amounts and an argument on why Santa Barbara police are or are not paid fairly in comparison with nearby cities.
Good discussion -- I agree about comparison's with other coastal cities and would love it if more POA members could live in our city. Not quite the Slugger's line -- the figures I got I heard from the City Administrator.
WHAT ARE YOU GUYS WRITING ABOUT. GETTING PAID FOR THE SAME WORK - GET A CLUE - NO WONDER THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ARE NOW CONTROLLED BY THE PRO BUSINESS BOYS. SAME PERSON DID BUTNEY THAT IS DOING MARTY AND DIANNE. WHAT A CLUELESS WONDER CAN WE NOT FIND A BRAIN ON OUR SIDE OF THE ISSUES. POOR DAS THE ONLY ONE WITH GREY MATTER AND HE HAS STAKED HIS ENTIRE CARRER ON THIS ELECTION, HE WINS WITH MARTY AS LANNY IS SO LAME BUT DIANNE COULD LOSE AND THAT COULD BE THE END OF DAS
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