Fact checking Ford’s Lifestyles ad
Bob Corker also “took 3 pay raises for himself,” according to the ad. This claim is true, but it doesn’t mention that the mayor of Chattanooga’s pay is linked to that of the Hamilton County mayor. When the county commission gives the county mayor a raise, Chattanooga’s mayor gets one as well. The raises Bob Corker received amount to approximately 3% a year (Chattanooga mayor’s pay, 2000-2005 document to be posted soon).
The ad then says Bob Corker froze the pay of Chattanooga’s police and firefighters. That claim is a stretch.
In two budgets, Bob Corker changed the pay structure for police and firefighters. Police and firefighters got small cost-of-living raises instead of their regularly-scheduled moves up the pay scale (Budget FY 2001-2002, Budget FY 2003-2004 documents to be posted soon).
October 5th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
Any reduction in an increase, which is still an increase, is a “cut” in LeftSpeak. This, it would seem, is a minor departure from that meme, wherein an increase is a “freeze”.
I want to see the Left push for a COLA for tax payers, wherein our taxes would be cut each year by the same percentage as the government employees’ COLAs (What’s good for the goose…).
Yeah, and I want to see monkeys fly from their butts, too.