Friday, May 24, 2013

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA

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Thumbs up for county supervisor

By Letter to the Editor
From page A8 | March 04, 2013 | 2 Comments

A recent article (Feb. 20, “Thomson wants Solano supervisors to discuss salary, benefits cuts”) stated that Solano County Supervisor Skip Thomson asked that the issue of whether the supervisors should reduce their salaries and benefits be discussed at a future meeting. As he rightly pointed out, supervisors should take the lead and cut their own salaries and benefits before asking employees to take further cuts.

I wish to congratulate Mr. Thomson for honoring the promise he made during his campaign. His view on this issue was the reason I voted for him and put his campaign sign on my front lawn.

Unfortunately, his fellow supervisor, Jim Spering, does not have the same sense of fairness. Therefore, he will be able to block Thomson’s effort. He seems to have the attitude that it is OK to ask employees, who earn considerably less than him, to take cuts but there is no way he is going to take a cut in his pay or benefits.

Charles McLaughlin

Fairfield

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SteveMarch 04, 2013 - 8:43 am
If Mr. Thomson wants to discuss the Board's salaries in public, he simply has to have the item put on the agenda the way every other item is put on the agenda, with I believe two votes. If he gets it on the agenda, he may also need to discuss the fact he resigned from the Board previously, ran for County Assessor, won, spiked his salary for two years. left office to retire and now lives off a government pension based on that spiked salary of about $160,000. Not sure if that conversation is what he has in mind. But it is the conversation that really needs to take place, because what Mr. Thomson did is a prime example of the real problem with government salaries and pensions.
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Rich GiddensMarch 04, 2013 - 11:59 am
Riverboat Jim sure is a shifty-eyed big unionized rat party government operator isn't he? He all for even more government waste, fraud, thievery and spending---no matter what. Vallejo? Lets spend even more money on it! Welfare and the cops? Lets spend even more money on both--each cancelling the other out with no progress made. Riverboat Jim needs to go.
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