Ha,ha,ha! Good one, Will! It's a crazy pay raise, but they'd be more crazy not to take the money at this point - they should get some kudos for at least fighting it for awhile. If you didn't laugh (at our expense), you would have to cry.

Skulkinground · 1 year ago

If you call someone a "politician," it's an insult.In what other job does that happen?The trio highlighted here do nothing to change that perception.

jimiray22 · 1 year ago

Say what you will about the original raise proposal and the six council members who supported it from the get-go: at least we knew exactly where they stood. Attracting smart, capable leaders to run for office would be easier if the pay was at least competitive with what they might see in the private sector. Of course, to justify the raises we want to make sure they are actually serving the public, and not just their donors, and failing to ban side jobs was a massive failure.However, Tupola and Tulba got to have their political capital cake and eat it too. To cynically oppose the pay raises, and to even pledge not to take them should they be approved, in order to ride the public backlash against the proposal to election victory in 2024—and then to immediately, in secret, take those very same pay raises and hope no one notices is really pretty odious. Cordero gets a bit of a pass from me. She genuinely stuck to her position, believing that Tupola and Tulba were as well, and refused to accept the pay raise even after securing her re-election. She alone of the three displayed a real commitment to the principle all three touted on the campaign trail.

Will_Caron · 1 year ago