Jackson Jambalaya

“We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you”. Most Agency heads don’t give a rats ass about their employees, mostly care about helping friends of friends. But they will damn sure give you an a award and take a picture with you!

MBN pay, is below pitiful!!!

This happens to employees everyday in state agencies.

So...should State Employees also go to court over the fact that for the past forty years, the salary schedule set up by the State Personnel Board and approved by the legislature has never been observed or funded by agencies or the legislature?

If these gubmnt employees took the job at the category and pay scale that existed ---- i.e. the Agent II at $41,000 why the hell do they now feel that they are entitled to back pay because the legislature chose to put this language into a bill (during an election year) but did not appropriate the money to pay for it?

Yes, the language may be there, but without a corresponding appropriation, there is not "there" there.

Of course, lawyers being what they are, a good lawsuit is never something to pass up. Kinda like a urinal - never pass one by whether you there is a basis for stopping or not.

Do they realize punitive damages are taxable?

If, the DPS can't administer driver license testing...what else can u expect? Seems Fisher is retired on the job, anyway.

Fisher and Dowdy lied???? Say it ain't so!

Looks like the MBN admin eventually came around (after a few years of incompetence) and attempted to make this right by their agents. Then when it came time to cut the checks Marshall Fisher pulled out his DENIED stamp and stopped everything dead in its tracks. So much for being a champion of law enforcement.

Obviously he vales his political legacy more than he values the lives of the men and women who wear their badges every day.

Can you say SELL OUT???

Might it be time for old man Fisher to go to the house??? Or did he lose that in the divorce settlement as well?

KF: I wish you would check this out--I was told several years ago that MBN agents are put on the MHP roles for a short period of time just so they can become eligible for the extra retirement benefits that MHP troopers get. If this is true, it sounds fishy.

351, obviously your decades of working as a state employee has dulled any knowledge you should have learned in 8th grade Civics.

An agency head can't spend the money if it is not appropriated by the legislature. Authorizing a pay raise without funding it is not a pay raise, no matter what a bunch of Jim Hoods trial lawyer buddies try to say in court. Would suggest that they take their pay in bags of sweet potatos, since that's the language these lawyer types understand.

2:39 - Try to pay attention. If you enter into a contract (in this case via a written contractual guarantee), and later realize, suspect or determine that the contract has been violated, you are entitled to sue for damages. How difficult is that for you to understand?

If the language does NOT say, "If and when appropriations fund the schedule", they probably have a good case. But, that's the purpose of our court system, right?

Disband MHP. Let local law enforcement write tickets and work wrecks.

Lose that terrible culture and you can build a state law enforcement agency that works. Issue licenses, MBN, crime lab, etc...

@ 5:47
No, that's not how it works. MBN Agents are eligible to attend the MHP academy to become troopers, but it's not given to them. The expectation is that the agents will return to MBN, but the reality is that life as a trooper is much better with the same or better pay. As long as you meet your non-existent quota on tickets, its much easier than 4 ROI's a month. Your round hat gets you so much more.

1053.... AMEN!!! Troopers are useless!!

It is time for Fisher and Dowdy to go to the house. Since Fisher has come to this state everything he has touched has turned to shit.

MBN is non-existent in the field. They exist to work cases that allows the state to get in on forfeitures. Disband the whole thing. Locals are doing the work.

Those badges and weapons, some say, give one a perpetual hard-on. Even if it IS a two-incher due to the roids.

10:53, you don't want to keep MBN, do you? Most of those folks are troopers and their leadership is troopers. DPS is a broken and dysfunctional department and has inserted itself into all kinds of shit into which it has no business.

Why are only LEO's getting credit for years of service when getting salary adjustments, and not all other state employees.

10:07 - Link?

Is there any list of all the plaintiffs available ?