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So Bakersfield's City Manager won't speak to or email me directly. But he did write a Community Voices article (in today's paper) re: fire and police negotiations that slams me as being irrational and biased, among other things He also claims I didn't print that firefighters were offered an 8 percent raise. Not so fast, hoss. In my first column on this issue (which ran April 1, 2009) I detailed as much as I could about the negotiations, including the fact that fire fighters were offered 8 percent over 2 years (exactly what the rest of the city including Mr. Tandy had already received). I also reported they had offered 2 percent of that proposed raise BACK to the city to pay into their retirement funds to ease the city's burden of paying for that benefit. The second column I did on Mr. Tandy and his negotiations (dated April 19) is the one he seems to be having angst over. That column wasn't about the negotiations per se, but  about how Mr. Tandy is conducting those...
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