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Then rest your case on that stipulation. Someone's fiancé came out and said "it's divisive" which implies one of the firefighters rather see those deplorable statues remain there. If their issue strictly pertains to their work requirements -- fine. The minute THEY start infecting politics into it...is the minute I stop believing them. And I don't believe them

Who brought politics into the statues? All the people who went about their business every day, or the people that started protesting that they be taken down? The firefighters didn't make them political, they already were. Most normal people would like to avoid to be in the scrutiny of this entire event. Yet the firefighters were forced into it, and therefore subjected to the scrutiny and the politics of it. If I go protest for one side of the statues debate, I'm inserting myself into it, and that's my problem. But these firefighters were forced into doing this at the risk of losing their jobs, and that's wrong

And who you calling THEY? If I turned that around and referred to someone as THEY, you'd be throwing a fit

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Posted by Fratigerguy

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 4/30/17 at 12:49 pm to Upperdecker

Well, as much as they didn't want to do, there is also civil service statute that expressly prohibits the chief or the mayor from ordering them to do something outside of their scope of duty. For example, they can't be ordered to cut the grass at the station. That's not within their job duties. Removal of statues certainly isn't in the job description either.

They violated the law with their orders. Whether the union files suit on that, who knows. But they will win it, slam dunk, if it comes to that.

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