Badges - Re: Florida FOP editorial
- From: David Thompson <dthom5303@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:46:14 -0400
Wow! I just learned something today. Basic rights now include collective
bargaining, higher than normal wages and benefits and no sacrifice at all on
the part of employees; and a government job. Oh, and best of all, screw the
tax paying public.
Gator: You can tell this worthless turd of a union thug that he wouldn't make a
pimple on a good cops a$$ on a good day. This is all partisan crap and has to
stop. Of course, I live in Michigan and not Florida so I don't know the whole
story but, Michigan has hemoraged cop jobs for 10 years. At the same time we
have municipalities stuck with paying for benefits they cannot afford. I do
not agree 100% with our governor but he is at least looking forward to the
future for the state and not for individual pockets.
David G. Thompson
Retired Admin LT
Midland PD, MI
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> From: c.t.rahn@xxxxxxxx
> To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Badges - Florida FOP editorial
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 00:11:38 -0400
>
> EDITORIAL PRESS RELEASEI want to commend Governor Scott for publically
> recognizing the service and sacrifice of today?s professional law enforcement
> officers. Thanks to the commitment and dedicated service of our public safety
> officers, Florida's crime rate is at the lowest rate in 40 years. This is a
> credit to the officers that work hard to keep our families and communities
> safe ? patrolling our streets and securing our neighborhoods. Yet assaults
> and injuries on police officers are soaring at an unacceptable rate. Line of
> duty deaths are up by 40%. Already in 2011 we have lost 65 police officers
> across the nation, 10 right here in Florida, leading the country with this
> stark statistic. No other profession willingly faces the dangers our officers
> face on a daily basis.Governor Scott held a press conference heralding the
> drop in crime, but in typical Scott fashion what he said in front of the TV
> cameras was completely different from what he did when the cameras were off. T
> oday, he complemented our service to the state, while in Tallahassee he
> continues push his extreme corporate agenda. Governor Scott has made
> stripping law enforcement officers of their collective bargaining rights and
> reducing the pensions they have earned with their blood and sweat his number
> one priority, and until he stops these attacks on public safety officers we
> request he refrain from using us and the work we do as props in his news
> conferences. Florida has a jobs crisis. Nothing contained in the anti-union
> legislation is aimed at creating new jobs for Floridians. Attacking worker
> freedom in a right to work state is purely political and will not create
> jobs. No one in Florida can be forced to join a union and no one can be
> required to pay union dues. Attacks on collective bargaining are nothing more
> than a partisan attack by Gov. Scott and politicians in Tallahassee who are
> attempting to change the rules to silence the political voice of workers so
> that corporate i
> nfluence can go unchecked in the state. When 6,000 Corrections Officers
> working in south Florida jails are to be replaced by privatization, we are
> not moving forward.Denying the basic rights of police officers and other
> public workers like nurses, firefighters, educators and bus drivers will do
> nothing to fix the budget. These rights protect the wages and benefits of
> working people as well as the communities we patrol - and they prevent the
> middle class from shrinking even more.?
>
>
> The Badges Law Enforcement Discussion Group - Est. 1997
>
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