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joeglow wrote:He said he needs it for safety reasons after 9/11 & Oklahoma City.  

almighty_tuna wrote:

joeglow wrote:He said he needs it for safety reasons after 9/11 & Oklahoma City.  

I was not aware that Suttle had so many enemies within the Taliban.

nativeomahan wrote:I have stayed off of this thread since the election.  I will come on here now to offer the following observations.

1.  Every city in America is undergoing a budget crisis.  Most cities have huge pension deficit issues, and from watching CNBC today a guy on there said it is mostly not caused by the stock market crash of the last year, but by cities over promising and over extending themselves.  Now they are stuck with these contracts.  Look at Caleefornia.  Everywhere there are massive budget deficits.  So you cannot blame Fahey or Suttle for them, at least not Suttle.  He inherited the mess.  Now he and the council MUST balance the budget.  Doing so by mixing cuts in services that are not unduly drastic or a threat to our quality of life (health, safety and otherwise) and the least bad of bad options for revenue enhancements is the only way to do it.  The mayor will propose and the city council dispose of these plans.

2.  Suttle is tone deaf.

3.  If I had to do it over again I would still vote for Suttle because he is not Hal Daub, who is close to the Anti-Christ in my book.

DTO Luv wrote:

almighty_tuna wrote:

joeglow wrote:He said he needs it for safety reasons after 9/11 & Oklahoma City.  

I was not aware that Suttle had so many enemies within the Taliban.

Or Oklahoma for that matter. How did Mike Fahey make it through 2 terms with such lax vehicle security?

WOWT wrote:With his mother by his side, Andrew Hammargen, 9, asked the first question of the night to Mayor Suttle. "Maybe if your office doesn't spend a lot of money on your fancy new car and high paying staff -- the city would have more money without taking my parents money."

"Every mayor since Al Veys has had a car and a driver," says Mayor Suttle. "Remember 911? Remember Timothy McVeigh? -- No? Your mom will tell you. The whole security makeup of mayors changed across the country."

HskrFanMike wrote:I'm just curious what people think Hal Daub would have done.  Waived his magic wand, and suddenly we'd be back in the dot.com economic boom?  Governments everywhere are having to make cuts or raise taxes, or borrow money.  Or all of the above.  I haven't heard anybody offer up any alternative solutions, other than firing 25% of the fire department (3 men on a truck).  So it's pretty easy to dismiss much of the current angst as simply "sore losers".

Stargazer wrote:Although if he can get more 'supporters' like D'Shawn... he'll begin to win over Omaha.  (so do they filter wall posts on the Suttle page?  I'm surprised you haven't unloaded a few salvos over there) ... I just about spit up my drink when I saw that big smile pop-up there.  Have to love the 'I'm looking forward to any change you can make to our fine city' comment.

Stargazer wrote:Yeah, I think we've established one thing for certain about Suttle... he's no politician.

I think he should have allocated a portion of his staff budget for an image consultant.

Although if he can get more 'supporters' like D'Shawn... he'll begin to win over Omaha.  (so do they filter wall posts on the Suttle page?  I'm surprised you haven't unloaded a few salvos over there) ... I just about spit up my drink when I saw that big smile pop-up there.  Have to love the 'I'm looking forward to any change you can make to our fine city' comment.

WOWT wrote:His staff salaries came up a few times.

"I am within the budget," says Suttle. "We need professional people. We're having a heart attack. I need a surgeon and not a carpenter."

The board that governs the Qwest Center Omaha hates Mayor Jim Suttle's proposed entertainment tax so much that its leaders offered the city a $5.6 million cash advance to drop the idea.

Suttle rejected the proposal.

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:This kinda put me in a bad mood today...:

Suttle Rejects MECA Cash Advance

The board that governs the Qwest Center Omaha hates Mayor Jim Suttle's proposed entertainment tax so much that its leaders offered the city a $5.6 million cash advance to drop the idea.

Suttle rejected the proposal.

http://omaha.com/article/20090728/NEWS01/707289942

That would have solved half your budget problem, idiot. Now you have to cut twice as much AND you've p!ssed off MECA. MECA has brought us millions and millions in entertainment revenue, a lot of which came from outside the city, built the Qwest Center into the highest grossing arena in ticket sales in the country, and has helped put Omaha on some people's "maps", and you've p!ssed them off....and want to make them charge more money for their services. Good work, sir!

joeglow wrote:So, gross incompetence is not a reason to recall someone?  It would be allowed under these circumstances BECAUSE the intent was not to just limit its usage to the reasons you cite.

That said, it won't be successful.  It is not like any of this is too much of a surprise for people who paid attention during the campaign (i.e. everyone here).  Thus, the people who ignored the writing directly in their face then will ignore that same writing a second time around.

DTO Luv wrote:Wow. Now he's hiring and over paying people who aren't even qualified to be in their positions!

Uffda wrote:We have all those budget discussions in general discussion but I thought i would post this here.

I am trying to figure out how Suttle is going to keep justifying his large pay increases per position when he is asking other dept to take cuts or is cutting people from city jobs.  Yes he didnt raise his office budget to make these hires but he also didnt set a good example by saying this is what I am only going to pay as we are in a budget crisis and I need to make cuts in my office too. My understanding he cut part time positions but he didnt cut the budget.

Also probably would be a good time for him to say --- ya know I really don't need this big huge expensive hybrid SUV.

He NEEDS the protection

joeglow wrote: He NEEDS the protection.  Al Quada is after Omaha's mayor to instill fear in the world.

OWH wrote:Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle announced today that all members of his staff will take eight unpaid leave days before the end of the year, and his new finance director volunteered to take a $40,000 pay cut.

HskrFanMike wrote: and (b) most of the people complaining at these forums and in public are complaining - but don't offer up any alternatives.

Big E wrote:

HskrFanMike wrote: and (b) most of the people complaining at these forums and in public are complaining - but don't offer up any alternatives.

You mean like the other guy that ran against him and lost mainly because he was "icky"?

This might be the biggest case of buyers' remorse I've seen in an election in a long time.

Big E wrote:

HskrFanMike wrote: and (b) most of the people complaining at these forums and in public are complaining - but don't offer up any alternatives.

You mean like the other guy that ran against him and lost mainly because he was "icky"?

This might be the biggest case of buyers' remorse I've seen in an election in a long time.

justnick wrote:

Big E wrote:

HskrFanMike wrote: and (b) most of the people complaining at these forums and in public are complaining - but don't offer up any alternatives.

You mean like the other guy that ran against him and lost mainly because he was "icky"?

This might be the biggest case of buyers' remorse I've seen in an election in a long time.

And it's hilarious! (besides the whole raping florence to death thing. |expletive| announces he's running in our city hall and then poops on our boobies without asking.) Not to mention he used to be our councilman and was all "Yay Florence!"

Don't blame me though. I wrote in Andy Warhol.

Brad wrote:Entertainment tax failed 6-1