I’d like to add to today’s Daily Freeman story regarding mayoral candidate Rich Cahill’s idea to lay off two DPW employees.
The people he is referring to are Ed Boyle and Ed Sweeney. These two are dedicated public servants who, together with Superintendent Mike Schupp, have exhibited extraordinary leadership and skill in guiding a department that is recovering from scandal and big budget cuts.
Some – not all – just some activists from within the local Civil Service Employees Association – agitate on almost a daily basis about everything imaginable. Among their favorite targets are Sweeney and Boyle. Cahill, who is seeking the CSEA’s endorsement in his campaign for mayor, knows this.
I don’t begrudge Cahill for the methods he uses to secure this union’s endorsement. He has to do what he has to do. But this is a bad idea, plain and simple. Without Sweeney and Boyle, that department would be in deep trouble.
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