{"id":21909,"date":"2011-08-25T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21909"},"modified":"2011-08-25T04:10:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:10:23","slug":"priorities-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21909","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak shows that deals with the city’s fiscal woes with the aplomb of a Gabor sister<\/a>;if you take care of life’s luxuries,the necessities take care of themselves:<\/p>\n

The day after Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak vetoed a City Council effort to prevent 10 firefighter layoffs, the city sent out a new job posting: a bicycle and pedestrian coordinator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which just goes to show that no matter how much Minneapolis and Saint Paul carp about losing (part \u00a0of) their subsidy from the parts of the state that work, they can always find the money to take care of their pets and their pork. \u00a0The bike and pedestrian director will make betwen $61-84K.<\/p>\n

The mayor’s office argues that the new coordinator will make the city safer for cyclists and pedestrians, but council President Barb Johnson said it is a “tempting” target for extra revenue to save firefighter jobs.<\/p>\n

“We’ll look at that. We’ll look at all the general fund positions that we have currently,” Johnson said. “Because a majority of the council wants to maintain these 10 firefighters and not lay them off.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those 10 firefighters, of course, have less to do with balancing the city’s budget than they do with serving as a battering ram against the GOP in the legislature, giving Dayton, Tom Bakk and Paul Thissen a chanting point when the GOP attacks “Local Government Aid”.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, here’s what the city’s hiring:<\/p>\n

In addition to the bicycle coordinator, the city is looking to hire a database engineer, a stationary engineer, an internal auditor and a manager of intellectual properties for the police department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Intellectual property in the police department?<\/p>\n

Cops are getting patents? \u00a0Or are so many of them writing books (I guess that reference dates me) that the department needs to be administering copyrights and trademarks?<\/p>\n

Can anyone ‘splain me that one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis Mayor RT Rybak shows that deals with the city’s fiscal woes with the aplomb of a Gabor sister;if you take care of life’s luxuries,the necessities take care of themselves: The day after Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak vetoed a City Council effort to prevent 10 firefighter layoffs, the city sent out a new job posting: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21912,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21909\/revisions\/21912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}