Thumbs down to city attorney Analeslie Muncy and her whining staff for pleading to the city council for substantial pay increases that, Muncy says, would stop the migration of city attorneys into private law practice. We say good riddance to people like David LaBrec. the assistant city attorney who resigned his S90,000-a-year post for greener pastures in Longview. Whatever happened to the notion of public service? David, we sympathize with anyone who’s struggling along on less than six figures, but Dallas teachers, police officers, and firefighters make far less than city attorneys, and the services they render surely contribute as much to the communal good. Government service (there’s that word again) cannot always match the private sector dollar-for-dollar, especially in tight economic times.
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