{"id":786,"date":"2021-06-25T04:51:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T04:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/118\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T10:34:53","slug":"police-union-wins-city-manager-resigns-news-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/2021\/06\/25\/police-union-wins-city-manager-resigns-news-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"Police union wins, City Manager resigns \u2013 News \u2013 Op\/Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<p class=\"entry-meta\">MAY 13, 2021\u00a0BY\u00a0<span class=\"entry-author\"><a class=\"entry-author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mesquitecitizenjournal.com\/author\/barb-ellestad\/\" rel=\"author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">BARB ELLESTAD<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"entry-comments-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mesquitecitizenjournal.com\/police-union-wins-city-manager-resigns-news-op-ed\/#comments\">1 COMMENT<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Mesquite City Manager Aaron Baker submitted his resignation effective immediately on Wednesday afternoon, May 12.<\/p>\n<p>Baker was unavailable for comments.<\/p>\n<p>While some may see it as unexpected, Baker had been the center of a vicious public attack at the last several council meeting from members of the Mesquite Police Officers Association union with little support from Mayor Al Litman and four of the five council members.<\/p>\n<p>Who would blame Baker? Who knew that doing the right thing would lead to threats, intimidation and outright revolt?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently MPOA president and police officer Larry Stewart, MPOA member Wyatt Oliver \u2013 aka the Mayor\u2019s personal videographer and point man, MPD Captain and MPOA operative Quinn Averett, and MPD Police Chief and MPOA operative MaQuade Chesley all believe that threats, intimidation and revolt are the way to properly manage elected officials and your city.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t bother me with the worn out line that any criticism of police union members throwing their power and influence around is the same as criticizing police officers who do a great job everyday protecting you and me.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t see the difference between the two then just simply stop reading.<\/p>\n<p>I repeat the same line I said nine months ago \u2013 political election endorsements are expensive. Now you get to pay the piper. Get your wallet out and start counting \u2013 oh, sorry, you can\u2019t count that high.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase a well-known politician, if you get on the wrong side of the police union in this town, they have six ways from Sunday to take care of that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 13, 2021\u00a0BY\u00a0BARB ELLESTAD\u00a01 COMMENT Mesquite City Manager Aaron Baker submitted his resignation effective immediately on Wednesday afternoon, May 12. Baker was unavailable for comments. While some may see it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/2021\/06\/25\/police-union-wins-city-manager-resigns-news-op-ed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailynp.biz\/103\/116-moapavalley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}