We’re not on the fence about this one…
Hmmm so let me get this straight: Guy puts up a fence, floods neighbors yards, City Councilman Kleinman acts ignorant, slips in an $800,000 fix in the upcoming bond package… but he can’t have taxpayers help with money for the pension? What are we missing here? #StupidIsAsStupidDoes #BiggerFencesToMend
Free speech isn’t free…
So the City of Dallas has to cough up at least $61,000 in overtime to pay officers for keeping the peace at the last protest rally and then there’s an estimated $1.8 million that it’s going to take to remove the Confederate statutes. But let’s see we understand all of this… Over a million dollars? Easy to find… Taking care of the city’s first responders and their families? Not so much. #ThePensionAintFixed
As Transparent As…
It’s rather difficult to follow the money when the City of Dallas erases the money you’re trying to follow. According to the Dallas Observer, “the city is busily erasing years of campaign finance and other data “in our effort to improve transparency.” #FollowTheMoney
Promises, promises, promises…
True to form the City of Dallas promised officers working the protest rally overtime pay. The next day, according to Fox 4 news reports, officers received an email “revealing a miscommunication, telling them they should expect to take a day off instead of receiving overtime pay.” A miscommunication? Kinda like that “miscommunication” over the pension. City officials and the police department later backtracked on it all and said the officers will be paid overtime. #BrokenPromises
We told you so…
The Texas Tribune reports that Dallas and Houston are losing officers because of their troubled pension funds and low pay. “It’s kind of like the perfect storm,” Robert Taylor, a criminology professor at the University of Texas at Dallas told the Texas Tribune. “You got failing pension plans, you have low pay, and then you have all sorts of political turmoil doing the job of enforcing in major cities.” #WeToldYouSo #ThePensionAintFixed