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So, Alexander Haig is alive and well, and apparently serving on the Bakersfield City Council in the guise of Zack Scrivner. Lest there was any question, Scrivner answered it last Wednesday with a Haig-esque “I am in control here,” op-ed piece about just who’s pulling the strings on negotiations with the police union (fire too, I presume, but he didn’t mention them). “Let’s be clear — the city manager is an agent of the City Council; he follows the council’s direction,” Scrivner wrote in reference to a recent ad campaign by the Bakersfield Police Officers Association lambasting City Manager Alan Tandy for holding up negotiations over the 3-at-50 retirement benefit in which an officer retiring at 50 gets 3 percent of his salary for every year worked. Okaaay, Mr. Vice Mayor, you want credit for this mess, you got it. The police union leadership has publicly stated that they’d be willing to negotiate ways to help save the...
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