Throwawayhelp111521 t1_iwwh3lh wrote on November 18, 2022 at 9:42 PM

"We got the monitor's bills...He makes $400,000 a year for a part-time job."

He charges $350 for an hour, which for a lawyer with his experience and expertise is perfectly reasonable. Some lawyers charge $800 an hour. Unlike the Mayor, Martin is not a public servant, he's in private practice. The team also is large. Review of the materials is costly and time-consuming. The lack of progress is of course troubling, but by his own admission, it's a huge problem and his limited powers aren't sufficient. In other words, it's good to alert the public to the continuing issue but it's bad to make a scapegoat out of this guy and his team. You sound like a crusading junior high school reporter when you do that.

BiblioPhil t1_iwz6f8d wrote on November 19, 2022 at 2:22 PM

He sounds like any conservative paper's(e.g the Post's) reporting. Put a large figure in the headline implying it's an elected/appointed public official's salary.

Adds fuel to the "out of control gubmint spending" narrative to make your proposed solutions (cut funding to public works, infrastructure, regulatory agencies and social services, while implementing tax cuts for businesses and the rich) seem favorable.

Throwawayhelp111521 t1_iwzaag8 wrote on November 19, 2022 at 2:55 PM

>He sounds like any conservative paper's(e.g the Post's) reporting. Put a large figure in the headline implying it's an elected/appointed public official's salary.

I was thinking the opposite, that he sounded like a naive or faux-naive lefty reporter. At the extremes of the political spectrum, there are similarities.