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Volume 39, Number 6 • November/December 2009
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The Night Before Christmas
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By Clement Clarke Carnell
was the night before Christmas, and throughout Schroeder Plaza The cops were as angry as Palestinians in Gaza. Their pay and their benefits were under the knife, And the media’s attacks made a miserable life.
The details that helped them to supplement pay, Would be all gone tomorrow, if the Globe had its way. And the Quinn bill was gutted by our good “friends of labor”, Instead of a scalpel, they had used a dull saber.
“On, editors, On, reporters, On, Prancer and Dancer, (To our pay and benefits, he was much worse than cancer!) “On Donder, On Blitzen, On Comet and Cupid, I can obfuscate facts, ‘cuz the public is stupid!”
Flagmen’s fifty-three dollars was the average, you see, But police details were thirty-seven (sometimes thirty-three!) But the public is ignorant, and Deval knows it too, So the Globe can report stuff that simply ain’t true.
When up on the rooftop, there arose such a clatter, The patrolmen ran out to see what was the matter. And what should appear, to the wonder of all? But a miniature Governor, whose name was Deval.
“We’re going to payroll”, we all heard him say, “To take more of their money, cut more of their pay!” “This year’s my election, we’ll do more of the same, Make police the red herrings, we need someone to blame!”
He marched past a mirror and looked at himself, With his servile flatterers, and a little Globe elf. And just as we thought police details might be dying, Appeared Commissioner Davis who accused him of “lying”!
He arrived in a sleigh, with an army of cronies, Bumkissers, rumpswabs, coatholders and phonies. There were editors, reporters, and that miserable jerk, The old fart from Suffolk, Professor Dave Tuerck!
He preened for the cameras, as he pranced down the hall, Holding coats for the Globe, and carrying their ball. “I’ve never liked cops, because I’m such a good lib, So I’ll make them the problem, tell the public a fib.”
His new “lying” rule, and his new policy, (Which was originally directed at you and at me,) Could now be employed where it might serve its best, And he ordered the Governor placed under arrest!
More rapid than eagles, his courtiers came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name. “On, Tiny Tim Murray, On, political hacks”, Then he decreased our pay while he increased our tax!
“I’ll tell the taxpayers I’m saving them money, By hiring flagmen, now won’t that be funny? I need an excuse for the state’s fiscal mess, So I’ll call flaggers “cheaper”, even though cops cost less!”
As the wagon arrived from our own District Two, We heard Deval whimper, “BOO-HOO-HOO”. And then he exclaimed as he drove out of sight, “SCREW THE BOSTON POLICE; I HATE YOU, GOOD NIGHT!”
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Governor Patrick’s fraud against police continues By Jim Barry, BPPA Legislative Agent n a press conference called by Governor Deval Patrick and held in Worcester a few weeks back, the Governor proposed a further cut to the Quinn Bill funding of $5 million dollars. This press conference called by the Governor was to deal with a further budget gap to the current year that was projected at over $600 million dollars. Yet Governor Patrick spent three quarters of the press conference outlining his plan to cut further into the Municipal Police Educational Incentive or Quinn Bill for $5 mil-
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lion dollars and set up a commission to look at doing away with the local required funding for the same. Governor, you had another $595 million in that gap that you paid scant attention to in your press conference as you spent the majority of your time trashing every Municipal Police Officer’s labor contract. My current student loan balance that I owe and continue to pay monthly is just about $30 thousand. I went to Springfield College on weekends in Boston and Manchester, New Hampshire for over three years. Time away from family, friends and details/overtime opportunities.
The BPPA membership ate zero increases in our labor contract to get the Quinn Bill Educational Incentive, while our brothers and sisters in the Boston Fire Services received 9% for the same period. Now times me by thousands of other municipal police officers and that story of mine is the reality of families across the state serving and protecting the public everyday. Governor, your press conference was another slap in the face to every police officer and to every worker that believes in Chapter 150E of the Mass. General (continued on page A5)