GREAT COMMENTS

Viking96

http://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/index.ssf/2013/06/oregon_lawmakers_call_for_a_fu.html

I have a question for you Mr. Rose. This is from an Earlier Oregonian story " In fact, a list of the top 50 non-union pay increases (PDF) obtained by The Oregonian shows that McFarlane started green-lighting raises for managers making $110,700 or more in February 2012, even as he publicly talked about how he had frozen their pay. " So correct me if I am wrong here. Neil McFarland said publicly he had frozen non-union workers pay. In fact he had ok'd fairly big raises. When someone does something like that are they not a liar? Aren't they lying? Why is Neil McFarland still manager after doing that? Why wasn't he terminated? From the same article " Indeed, the general manager praised the sacrifice of non-union workers "now in their fourth year" of a pay freeze.
Records show that McFarlane tucked the raises into a $20 million generic line item called "contingencies" in the budget" Now that is out and out lying. You wrote in this article " quietly tapped into a $20 million rainy day fund to give raises to his top managers and other non-union employees" Quitely tapped??? How does a manager of such a large agency quietly tap into anything? Why did you leave out the part that he lied about what he was doing? Again from that article " Records show that McFarlane tucked the raises into a $20 million generic line item called "contingencies" in the budget. " Tucked?? If you state the fund is for emergencies and then take money out of that fund for pay raises isn't that liying? Why did you pull punches in your article today? Neil McFarland lied about pay raises and tried to cover up what he was doing by "tucking" the expense into a line item from a fund not intended for pay raises.