Mayor: City employees deserve praise for taking pay cuts

Las Vegas Sun ^ | Thursday, March 31, 2011 | 1:37 p.m. | By Dave Toplikar

[redreno]

Mayor Oscar Goodman says Las Vegas city employees deserve cheers — not jeers — for their roles in helping the city through its budget crisis.

Goodman told reporters at his weekly press conference Thursday that some city employees are getting a bad rap when they're out in public.

"It's very unfortunate where they may be out in the supermarket or something and people make a gesture at them just because they're with the city and I think they're confusing us with other entities," Goodman said.

[freekitty]

Hey Mr Mayor; they still have a job. Explain that to the millions who don’t.

[Navy Patriot]

Either “public servants” take the lead to successfully initiate, remove, and punish “bad apple” public servants regardless of agency, or they are all bad apple public servants, and there is no confusion.