{"id":3079,"date":"2011-10-05T19:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2011-10-05T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T05:09:12","slug":"highest-paid-unions-go-wisconsin-on-adachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3079\/highest-paid-unions-go-wisconsin-on-adachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Highest Paid Unions Go Wisconsin on Adachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNa9ykAu1TY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>October 5, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Those firefighter and cop unions sure do love their cushy pay packages and lucrative pension benefits, so much so they are spending their excess disposable incomes to trash Public Defender Jeff Adachi over Proposition D.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest high-school creation in a string of ill-conceived attacks, is a poorly produced attack ad that attempts to tie Adachi to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a right-wing politician who fits the bill of being a true union buster.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A \u201cbold reformer\u201d Adachi may be, a union buster he is not.<\/p>\n<p>But if Adachi is a union buster, so is interim Mayor Ed Lee, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, billionaire Warren Hellman, Prop C spokesperson Nathan Ballard, Fire Fighters Local 798 president Thomas P. O\u2019Connor, SFPOA president Gary Delagnes and everyone else that supports pension reform.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is, only the highest paid public employees \u2013 cops, firefighters, nurses, and those who can afford silk-lined suits (including Adachi) \u2013 have anything to really quibble about with Prop D. Why? Because Adachi\u2019s pension reform measure is a progressive solution to a financial math problem no sane taxpayer, city employee, mayor, Board of Supervisors, Civil Grand Jury or union boss no longer denies exists.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Adachi\u2019s Prop B last year deserved to be crushed at the ballot and, yes, we need progressive taxation to rebalance the nation\u2019s escalating debt caused by expensive and unwinnable wars, slimy moneygrubbers on Wall Street that got us into this morass, and a corrupt political system dominated by corporate and big money interests. But let\u2019s not kid ourselves into believing the nation\u2019s financial problems will be solved by progressive taxation or public employee pension reforms alone. We all have to pitch in starting with those who make the most and can afford the most.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Prop C defeats Prop D, or vice-versa, or both measures pass, history will credit Adachi with having the courage to do what no other San Francisco politician was previously willing to do: to take on the highest paid unions to save San Francisco from inevitable insolvency.<\/p>\n<p>As for the bullying firefighter and cop unions and their juvenile attacks on Adachi to save their lucrative interests at the expense of taxpayers and social services, history will be unkind and remember them as helping to erode public support for unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact is, only the highest paid public employees \u2013 cops, firefighters, nurses, and those who can afford silk-lined suits (including Adachi) \u2013 have anything to really quibble about with Prop D. Why? Because Adachi\u2019s pension reform measure is a progressive solution to a financial math problem no sane taxpayer, city employee, mayor, Board of Supervisors, Civil Grand Jury or union boss no longer denies exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Highest Paid Unions Go Wisconsin on Adachi - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/3079\/highest-paid-unions-go-wisconsin-on-adachi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Highest Paid Unions Go Wisconsin on Adachi - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The fact is, only the highest paid public employees \u2013 cops, firefighters, nurses, and those who can afford silk-lined suits (including Adachi) \u2013 have anything to really quibble about with Prop D. 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