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The Fraternal Order of Police is making a move to block CTA President Ron Huberman from claiming his police pension. The Ron, who makes $198,000 a year, claims that he's entitled to it since part of his job at the CTA is managing security. He had previously worked for the CPD for 13 years, serving as both a patrol officer and then an assistant deputy superintendent, focusing on technology; he last worked for the CPD in 2004. In an interview a few weeks ago with the Sun-Times, The Ron had said, "Part of my responsibility is security at the CTA. I'm not saying I'm a police officer because I'm not. But the law says if you're involved in security work and that's part of your responsibility, you have the right to pay in if you're on leave of absence."
This does not make Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Donahue a happy camper. In a letter to the Policemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago last week, Donahue said, "At a time when we serve on a commission attempting to address the under-funding of Chicago's Pension Funds, to now take an extremely liberal perspective of the law without making legislative changes to it borders on irresponsible." Donahue also implied that strange things were afoot since similar requests in the past had always been opposed. "To have only one active representative on the board...take a stand against such consideration is disturbing." Strange shenanigans in Chicago City Politics? Noooooo! We have to side with Donahue on this one. With the budget clusterfuck meaning fewer police officers, somehow we think The Ron won't exactly be hurting for money if they say, "No."
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Chicago is the City that 'Works' It works on some serious, blatant, spleen tearing, in your face Charlie Murphy corruption.
I don't know what else to say.
I love how Daley hires all these good government goo gooo liberal types to be the shinny squeaky face of his Public Thievery. I was at a bar when I over heard two people talking about being at meeting with the Commissioner of the Department of Environment. These two people take the el five and the bus five days a week. Any way they continued on about how the CTA came up in a very neutral way ans the Commissioner started gushing about what a genius Huberman is. She,( according to them) would not shut up about it. It was( they said) embarrassing. The to make matters worse, she later bragged that she had a city car with free city parking! Man I don't know what I would have dead if I were their! Disgusting!
I hear that in city hall he has basically a fan club, every body talking about how cute he is, etc,
I love how Daley hires all these good government goo gooo liberal types to be the shinny squeaky face of his Public Thievery.
You nailed it.
That said, the city, at levels below department heads, does have a strong reputation of employing some seriously smart and relatively honest administrators. How much influence they have is questionable, I guess, but all its major problems and corruption, one can easily be amazed that Daley's city--and it is his city, not ours--has yet to truly fall apart, so perhaps there is some talent at work there.
"That said, the city, at levels below department heads, does have a strong reputation of employing some seriously smart and relatively honest administrators."
True indeed, but I hear that when they get hired by The City, to their friends its like you never knew them, because they are terrified to say any thing besides how "great things are" And I hear they don't hang out any more or go to dinner parties because they are uncomforbable talking about sh*t, unless it stays on a very supperfical level. I'm not saying its "Nazi Germany" But I hear that there is a real level of fear in the work place that is promoted by the clouted
Royalty. And I'm talking fear about being told on, that causes under cutting, etc.
Huberman should be fired just for this shameless money grab.
His wants a police pension credit for his years of high-salary time behind a desk. Outrageous. What an insult to the officers who go out on the street every day to EARN their pensions.
And what an insult to the taxpayers that fund these pensions. Huberman has shown his true colors.