Mommadeez4u
02-03-2007, 01:49 PM
Mumbles Menino's Short-Term Memory
Here's Boston Mayor Tom Menino last week (http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?dept=55) on the talking french fry non-hoax:
It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme. I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents.
Turner is now set to pay the city of Boston $1 million for the overtime it had to pay its police officers and first responders (a bargain, given that most of the country now knows about the movie).
Rewind back to last October (http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/2006/10/business-as-usual-in-bay-state.html). Menino was thrilled to be hosting a convention for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. So thrilled in fact, that he pulled 160 police officers off their normal beats so they could play chauffeur, porter, and chaperone, for the top brass. That's more than 10 percent of the city's 1,400-man police force.
From the Boston Herald (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=162830):
BPD brass ordered dozens of cops to work "“forced overtime"” in neighborhoods hardest hit by crime, as commanders, detectives, patrol officers and rookie cops were yanked from busy districts like B-2, covering Roxbury and Mission Hill; C-11, covering Dorchester; and the Mattapan/North Dorchester areas covered by B-3; considered the city'’s most dangerous areas. A lieutenant and four rookie cops were pulled out of C-11 and reassigned to taxi visiting police chiefs, according to a personnel order obtained by the Herald. Many BPD officers were summoned by tipsy out-of-town chiefs by cell phones for rides home from barrooms, the Herald reported yesterday.
In one neighborhood where Menino pulled up beat officers for the event, there was a triple murder. Menino's office refused to say how much the event cost the city, but the Herald's police bureau chief described the figure as "staggering."
Yet Menino wasn't putting out press releases demanding IACP foot the bill. Instead, he spoke at the event, and cracked jokes about the costs:
On a lighter note he complained to his police commissioner that overtime for police handling all the events of IACP was going to break the city. But he also made sure the attendees were welcome to enjoy all the city had to offer.
Seems to me the mayor's outrage over wasted law enforcement resources is rather selective, isn't it?
The mayor pulling beat cops and paying overtime so city police can shuttle boozy top cops around on the taxpayer dime? Joke-worthy. A private company putting up harmless LED signs advertising a coming movie, causing hapless officials to mistake them for bombs? Outrageous waste of city funds!
Fuck you, you worthless bloviating fucktard.
Here's Boston Mayor Tom Menino last week (http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?dept=55) on the talking french fry non-hoax:
It is outrageous, in a post 9/11 world, that a company would use this type of marketing scheme. I am prepared to take any and all legal action against Turner Broadcasting and its affiliates for any and all expenses incurred during the response to today’s incidents.
Turner is now set to pay the city of Boston $1 million for the overtime it had to pay its police officers and first responders (a bargain, given that most of the country now knows about the movie).
Rewind back to last October (http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/2006/10/business-as-usual-in-bay-state.html). Menino was thrilled to be hosting a convention for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. So thrilled in fact, that he pulled 160 police officers off their normal beats so they could play chauffeur, porter, and chaperone, for the top brass. That's more than 10 percent of the city's 1,400-man police force.
From the Boston Herald (http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=162830):
BPD brass ordered dozens of cops to work "“forced overtime"” in neighborhoods hardest hit by crime, as commanders, detectives, patrol officers and rookie cops were yanked from busy districts like B-2, covering Roxbury and Mission Hill; C-11, covering Dorchester; and the Mattapan/North Dorchester areas covered by B-3; considered the city'’s most dangerous areas. A lieutenant and four rookie cops were pulled out of C-11 and reassigned to taxi visiting police chiefs, according to a personnel order obtained by the Herald. Many BPD officers were summoned by tipsy out-of-town chiefs by cell phones for rides home from barrooms, the Herald reported yesterday.
In one neighborhood where Menino pulled up beat officers for the event, there was a triple murder. Menino's office refused to say how much the event cost the city, but the Herald's police bureau chief described the figure as "staggering."
Yet Menino wasn't putting out press releases demanding IACP foot the bill. Instead, he spoke at the event, and cracked jokes about the costs:
On a lighter note he complained to his police commissioner that overtime for police handling all the events of IACP was going to break the city. But he also made sure the attendees were welcome to enjoy all the city had to offer.
Seems to me the mayor's outrage over wasted law enforcement resources is rather selective, isn't it?
The mayor pulling beat cops and paying overtime so city police can shuttle boozy top cops around on the taxpayer dime? Joke-worthy. A private company putting up harmless LED signs advertising a coming movie, causing hapless officials to mistake them for bombs? Outrageous waste of city funds!
Fuck you, you worthless bloviating fucktard.