None of what he listed amounts to directly providing funds, they're all tax incentives to make building homes a feasible business venture where they otherwise wouldn't be.

If you're against paid administrative leave in this circumstance, then you are either

A) Against it in all circumstances, including those where it is obvious no wrongdoing occurred and the subject will be exonerated, or

B) Automatically assuming he's guilty, will be fired, and could have been fired immediately if it weren't for those pesky rules saying we need to prove he did it.

Given you're apparently unaware this process is the standard for any unionized workplace, it seems likely that you just have some ideological beef with the police, and see police unions as an extension of the police rather than a union protecting its workers. If you're against collective bargaining, you're against job protections such as requiring investigation and cause for dismissal.

I was saying maybe we should focus our energy on getting more places to unionize, so the protections that come along with unionization aren't exclusive to a few select labor markets.

What does a seemingly unrelated story from 8 years ago have to do with this ongoing investigation? What does anyone's salary have anything to do with this?

Bootlicking is when you support fair labor practices, got it.

Luckily we don't have to imagine because the publicly accessible salary database is linked directly in the article everyone here definitely read.

Good point, we should do the right thing and just fire people without cause.

Nobody is talking about axing existing social media accounts used in an official capacity. This is about state employees using their state issued mobile phone to install TikTok for personal use.

"I heard Vermont had slavery removed so it could suck its own dick."

Unless they're Jay Inslee

There's a difference between what people say about a candidate 6 months before an election and what data-driven polls say two weeks before an election.

Trump wasn't running in a race that was going to be an obviously one-sided hulk smash.