Kendrick Blackwood got a more than $17,000 salary bump for his new duties as chief of staff to Mayor Mark Funkhouser.
His new salary is $100,000 even, according to the city’s human resource department. His old salary was $82,800.
He won’t be getting a car allowance.
Blackwood told Prime Buzz today that he won’t be getting the use of a city car. He joked that not negotiating for a car allowance was an oversight on his part.
The previous officeholder, Ed Wolf, received $140,000.
Is there any truth to the rumors he's been spotted lurking around City Hall wearing camo fatigues and muttering odd statements like "that job should've been MINE!" and "I bring that ingrateful bastard aboard and this is the thanks I get."
Keep churning those resumes out, Joe. I'm sure there's still a few cities that I haven't heard of Hizzoner Flunkhouser yet.
Not bad canis.... maybe you too will be recognized in the Pitch :)
I wonder what Miller knows of this item...
You cannot buy loyalty at any price.
Kendrick is a journalist, first.
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That's not like being a real journalist.
Calling anyone who writes for The Pitch a "journalist" is like calling Funkenstein a "leader."
That's just a little irony for you, canis_lupis.
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Now his dad will have to eat his words, because he thought Kendrick would never amount to much as a two-bit writer for that scandal rag.
Get an agent, you don’t need him anymore.
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... Ken-e is working for hillbilly funkenstein, not a good thing to put on one's resume. He will have to do some creative writing to cover up that gaffe and being fired from The Pitch Who gets fired from that tabloid anyway?
Blackwood will now start considering himself a political guru and start running for office after this group fail and fall.
It will make for some interesting bed fellows.
Who cares about this pride of the C Team? That's the best you have Mark? Okay then, let's move on to the next debacle...
Actually, I imagined Backwood's role to be to be a little more menacing.
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light poles
The savings will pay for the repair of approximately 20 vandalized light poles... or perhaps the City c an hire one of the twenty promised cops? Either way, the regular citizen is left holding the short end of the stick.
And the Funk's answer to all this (other than taking his raise)? Let's add on another tax for Light Rail. I am missing the Light Rail proponents sharing with the average citizen what the sewer project is going to cost and how it is going to get paid for. I suppose in a world where the politicians get raises and the regular voter gets lay off notices and pay cuts, why bother explaining to the people the financial burden that the sewer debacle presents and how much money each citizen is going to be either forced or obliagted to cough up.
Further, it is amusing to note that if the average citizen doesn't pay his/her share of the sewer project debacle, the City will be more than happy to take away his/her house. In the case of Mayor Smart With Nothinghouser also known as the Graand Funk Railroad, his house has a couple of mortgages that seem to exceed the value of HIS home so in his case, there will be nothing to take :) And this is the man who wants us to trust his judgment and agree to this tax and to let him figure out how and where to building this extraordinarily expensive wasteful and unnecessary boondoogle of a project? ALso the same guy who couldn't balance his campaign finance checkbook. And a buffoon who okayed his wife's sending out a christmas card that was so strange (Yael T Abouhalkah himself labled the card "bizarre") and vulgar and humiliating to us all that it even made a national news outlet.
Maybe better than a sales tax and a light rail boondoggle we should give the Funk a few extra hundred thousand (g-d knows he needs it and has performed so well and the City is doing so great that a bonus wouldn't be out of the question if the City were a regular business [not]) so he can clean up his out-sized home mortgage debt and we can call things square (and not to have to attempt to incur and pay off a billion or so of new debt.