Phoenix slides $68k to Firefighter union boss for MMJ-tax botch job ... nothing to see here.

The nature of the medical marijuana occupational licensing tax was more than a little incestuous ... Jeffries was working for the city, a proposal to fund city police and fire ended up being led by the head of a firefighters union from within the mayor's office.

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the city set Jeffries' base annual salary at $125,721.60, near the top of the salary range for a Phoenix chief of staff. That salary was more than Jeffries' base salary of $88,760 as a Mesa city employee ...

Right, so no big. This guy gets a 40% jump in salary to work on a new tax to pay the people in his union, that doesn't go anywhere.

I hate the US. Where people make $120k+/yr to jump around from job to job doing shitty (or no) work so one day they can scratch someone else's back, and it's "Not an unusual thing to do."

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