“After editorializing for at least two consecutive years that Newton Mayor Setti Warren ought to give himself a raise, Gail Spector finally got through to him
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by Greg Reibman | Apr 18, 2012 | Newton | 10 comments
“After editorializing for at least two consecutive years that Newton Mayor Setti Warren ought to give himself a raise, Gail Spector finally got through to him
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This isn’t a raise. the past 6 years the Mayor was takiing less than his salary allows him, this is not a raise. Now that it’s been 6 years since his raise, he’s due another:).
While I understand Tom’s point, from a budgetary standpoint, this is a raise. Please note I support the mayor having bumped up the salary for the job; it’s an important job and $97,500 was not sufficient for the function.
I give Setti credit for resisting the increase until he felt he could point to his considerable successes, even though I was urging him to take this action before now.
Greg, are you saying he heeded Gail’s advice, not mine? LOL
Aaack. Grammar Maven is so distracted by your sentence structure she can’t think about the pay raise. How about “After editorializing for at least two consecutive years that Newton Mayor Setti Warren ought to give himself a raise, Gail Spector finally got through to him”?
Okay, that’s better. No, I don’t have any problem with him taking the pay raise that was authorized six years ago.
@Julia: Yep. Thanks now rewritten per your suggestion. (If you missed the original, you’ll just have to use your imagination.)
@Tom: How can you not have had a raise in six years from a job you’ve only held for two years?
Greg,
Exactly. This isn’t a payraise, it’s pay that was originally due to him.
Yeah, he waits until I leave to listen to me. That way, he has the political cover to blame it on me (“Hey, the Newton TAB opined twice that I should take the raise. They told my predecessor that he should announce he wasn’t running for re-election
after he tried to take the friggin’ raise…”), but he waited until I have no influence anymore. I see what he’s doing. Savvy political maneuvering on his part.
No influence? But you’re a Village 14 blogger now! You think Sean, Jerry, Chuck, Julia and Kara are walking the streets of Newton thinking they have no influence?
What you have now is no deadline.
Oops. I forgot that I’m no longer on the west coast.
Let me amend that to:
Wow, I knew editors influenced anything written — but cartooning as well?
I’m going back to the west coast. I’ve let my guard down way too much for Newton right now.
🙂