Republic now defending the council against the Tribune

Arizona Republic columnist Gary Nelson has this to say about the potential pay hike that was mentioned by the Tribune over the weekend. Which is funnier?

a. Nelson is not able to mention his former employer for many years by name

b. Walters, sensing backlash, is all over this bad boy backing off of the raise

I am going to have to go with b. You know why? The charter says that the current council would not be able to get the pay raise anyway. So why not go against the raise and make ground with the conservatives? You aren't getting the benefit anyway, anything short of denying the hike still sounds self serving.

Also, there's this passage:

"As for Saturday's newspaper story, Walters said, 'The headline was rather surprising.'"

I didn't know that it was the job of one paper to get someone's view on the headline of another newspaper. I can't wait until we get to hear about what the Vice Mayor thought of the headlines of the New York Times from over the weekend.