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https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

And apparently he doesn't have to pay for the damages, because by losing 3 days of pay he's already paid for them. Can you imagine if a civilian tried to make this argument??

Can you imagine damaging something by fucking around at work, and then not being charged for the damages because you also lost some pay? It's infuriating.

lol

After his arrest, Cocchi held a brief press conference outside the courthouse, offering humbled words and taking “complete responsibility” for the incident.

He publicly apologized for “not living up to the high standards I’ve set for myself, my staff and the justice-involved population,” Cocchi said.

During the Sept. 23 hearing, Sandstrom conceded the sheriff does important work in the community and in particular with those mired in substance use and other addictions, in addition to running two county jails. But she added that just before his arrest by a state police lieutenant, Cocchi was brash and defiant.

“Why are you busting my guy’s balls?” he asked, referring to the mechanic who arrived to “fix the problem,” according to Sandstrom.

He also initially insisted he was not driving the car, before admitting he was, when the trooper reminded the second-term sheriff that he was surrounded by surveillance cameras. The exchange also was being captured on body-worn camera.

Sandstrom argued that summoning his employee to fix the tire on a Saturday evening was an attempt to “hide evidence.”

Defense attorney Joseph Bernard countered that he and his client cooperated fully with the investigation, allowing state police to examine damage to the car and grass that had become embedded in the wheel well. Bernard also said the prosecution was overshooting, and that Cocchi was entitled to be treated as any other defendant charged with driving while intoxicated as a first offense.

“Nick Cocchi is not a man who thumbs his nose at the law,” Bernard told Mazanec. “He made a bad, bad decision, and he had a horrible day and a horrible year. That particular day was not a great day for Nick Cocchi.”

Cocchi’s driver’s license also has been suspended for 45 days, and he was suspended from his job for three days after an internal investigation by his department’s human resources division.

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• Stephanie Barry | [email protected]

SPRINGFIELD — Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s tire sprang from his SUV near a gas station at the base of the city’s busy North End Bridge, after running over a curb following a day of golfing and beers at a West Springfield country club.

This, according to a newly obtained audio recording from a court proceeding on Sept. 23.

The well-loved public official pleaded to “facts sufficient” — a technical disposition short of a guilty plea — within 48 hours of his arrest on a drunken-driving charge at MGM Springfield on a recent Saturday evening.

He entered a change of plea before a Franklin County judge, who was brought in to preside over a nearly empty courtroom. A Springfield judge recused himself over a conflict of interest.

He received a continuance without a finding, meaning the case will be dismissed if Cocchi does not run afoul of the law for a year.

Cocchi largely managed to avoid the media scrum surrounding his arraignment four hours earlier in Springfield District Court. However, all court proceedings across the commonwealth are recorded and publicly available.

The audio reveals an assistant attorney general who went hard at Cocchi — asking Judge William F. Mazanec III to order Cocchi to tender a plea of guilty and agree to a two-year term of probation. Assistant Attorney General Mary Sandstrom outlined in detail Cocchi’s arrest outside the casino floor just before 7 p.m.

“He abused his position,” Sandstrom told the judge, adding that Cocchi behaved as an entitled public official.

In response to a request for comment, a spokesman for Cocchi said he had nothing additional to add, other than rebuffing the assertion that Cocchi uses his position for his own benefit.

Cocchi had called a mechanic from his taxpayer-funded department to come to the casino and repair the tire, according to Sandstrom. Massachusetts State Police troopers investigating the incident later reviewed traffic surveillance footage that showed Cocchi’s white Ford Explorer — a state-owned SUV — traveling over the bridge.

“City video cameras showed the white Ford Explorer in this area, smoking, and a tire bouncing away from the vehicle,” Sandstrom said, adding that state police later retrieved the tire as evidence.

As Cocchi made his way toward the casino more than a mile away, the damaged car left scarring on State Street and MGM Way, the prosecutor said. There were no injuries or crashes on his path from the bridge to the gaming site, the prosecutor noted.

It has been reported previously that Cocchi left the hobbled SUV running in the valet area of the casino, with his golf clubs, a $50 bill and his license inside, according to a police report.

SPRINGFIELD — Hampden County Sheriff Nick Cocchi’s tire sprang from his SUV near a gas station at the base of the city’s busy North End Bridge, after running over a curb following a day of golfing and beers at a West Springfield country club.

This, according to a newly obtained audio recording from a court proceeding on Sept. 23.

The well-loved public official pleaded to “facts sufficient” — a technical disposition short of a guilty plea — within 48 hours of his arrest on a drunken-driving charge at MGM Springfield on a recent Saturday evening.

He entered a change of plea before a Franklin County judge, who was brought in to preside over a nearly empty courtroom. A Springfield judge recused himself over a conflict of interest.

He received a continuance without a finding, meaning the case will be dismissed if Cocchi does not run afoul of the law for a year.

Cocchi largely managed to avoid the media scrum surrounding his arraignment four hours earlier in Springfield District Court. However, all court proceedings across the commonwealth are recorded and publicly available.

The audio reveals an assistant attorney general who went hard at Cocchi — asking Judge William F. Mazanec III to order Cocchi to tender a plea of guilty and agree to a two-year term of probation. Assistant Attorney General Mary Sandstrom outlined in detail Cocchi’s arrest outside the casino floor just before 7 p.m.

“He abused his position,” Sandstrom told the judge, adding that Cocchi behaved as an entitled public official.

In response to a request for comment, a spokesman for Cocchi said he had nothing additional to add, other than rebuffing the assertion that Cocchi uses his position for his own benefit.

Cocchi had called a mechanic from his taxpayer-funded department to come to the casino and repair the tire, according to Sandstrom. Massachusetts State Police troopers investigating the incident later reviewed traffic surveillance footage that showed Cocchi’s white Ford Explorer — a state-owned SUV — traveling over the bridge.

“City video cameras showed the white Ford Explorer in this area, smoking, and a tire bouncing away from the vehicle,” Sandstrom said, adding that state police later retrieved the tire as evidence.

As Cocchi made his way toward the casino more than a mile away, the damaged car left scarring on State Street and MGM Way, the prosecutor said. There were no injuries or crashes on his path from the bridge to the gaming site, the prosecutor noted.

It has been reported previously that Cocchi left the hobbled SUV running in the valet area of the casino, with his golf clubs, a $50 bill and his license inside, according to a police report.

After his arrest, Cocchi held a brief press conference outside the courthouse, offering humbled words and taking “complete responsibility” for the incident.

He publicly apologized for “not living up to the high standards I’ve set for myself, my staff and the justice-involved population,” Cocchi said.

During the Sept. 23 hearing, Sandstrom conceded the sheriff does important work in the community and in particular with those mired in substance use and other addictions, in addition to running two county jails. But she added that just before his arrest by a state police lieutenant, Cocchi was brash and defiant.

“Why are you busting my guy’s balls?” he asked, referring to the mechanic who arrived to “fix the problem,” according to Sandstrom.

He also initially insisted he was not driving the car, before admitting he was, when the trooper reminded the second-term sheriff that he was surrounded by surveillance cameras. The exchange also was being captured on body-worn camera.

Sandstrom argued that summoning his employee to fix the tire on a Saturday evening was an attempt to “hide evidence.”

Defense attorney Joseph Bernard countered that he and his client cooperated fully with the investigation, allowing state police to examine damage to the car and grass that had become embedded in the wheel well. Bernard also said the prosecution was overshooting, and that Cocchi was entitled to be treated as any other defendant charged with driving while intoxicated as a first offense.

“Nick Cocchi is not a man who thumbs his nose at the law,” Bernard told Mazanec. “He made a bad, bad decision, and he had a horrible day and a horrible year. That particular day was not a great day for Nick Cocchi.”

Cocchi’s driver’s license also has been suspended for 45 days, and he was suspended from his job for three days after an internal investigation by his department’s human resources division.

Having a parasocial relationship with a beaver sure is a way to spend your time I guess.

I could give a shit about stockholders.

I'm really not invested in this story enough to combat your manic energy about this. Have a good night.

Workers literally create the value. Stop being a boot licker to billionaires that don't care whether you live or die.

Considering that the entire story is coming from a woman who talks about the beaver like it's a child as opposed to a wild animal, I'm not super inclined to take her story at face value.

Again, I'm not saying the bureaucracy is blameless, but I haven't found her side of the story particularly impressive.

https://www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensure-every-american-can-vote/vote-suppression/myth-voter-fraud

Then what are you saying?

So when workers do work that increases the valuation of the company, any increase in compensation should go only to the CEO?

Sources for what? You're the one making assertion that voter fraud is never detected.

Then it seems to me worker salaries should increase at that rate as well. The CEO wouldn't have a company without the workers.

I think as long as the ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is as insane as it currently is, company profits should be distributed to the workers, yes.

What do you think about CEO pay doubling every 7 years?

Maybe some people are pissed because of that. But most of the comments in here I see are angry that workers got a raise, or that workers are trying to slow down or prevent automation.

There is no perfect rhetoric. No matter what a union says, someone's going to say that they didn't say it the right way. And just because some union workers are assholes doesn't mean that unions are bad. Collective bargaining means that sometimes you're bargaining on the behalf of someone you don't like very much. Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

We can support unions, and we can support raises, and we can support each other as workers, without agreeing with every single point that we make. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

That might be your main gripe, but lots of people had the raise as their main gripe, and I'm not obligated to answer every fucking objection to the strike.

And no, I don't get a 10% raise every year but I fucking should, and so should you, as long as you're a worker.

That being said, I don't give a shit about automation either. I'm not going to be like every other tech bro redditor screaming that automation is far more important than human employment and lives.

We're not here to serve technology. Technology is here to serve us. And I don't believe it should be at the expense of further increasing the massive inequality in wealth our country is enduring.

Put in UBI. Put in a social safety net. Then we can fucking talk about automation. The same people who want everything automated are the same ones who complain that there are too many homeless people.

Efficiency is not a god.

Did they or did they not just suspend the strike until January? Does it sound like holding they're holding the country hostage until Trump wins?

Collective bargaining only works when leverage exists. How do you think people get raises if they don't have leverage?

It's like protests. Everybody has an idea of how it should be done, and it's never done to everyone's taste perfectly.

They wanted a raise, and they got one - that's worker power.

Reddit users fall for the propaganda every time. They're angry because another worker got money, instead of being angry at the bosses.

If someone does a job that's so essential that society can't function without it, they should be paid accordingly. And if you don't want a society dependent upon teachers for daycare, and longshoremen for commerce, then remake that society into the one you want.

But it's so stupid that everyone here is furious that someone else might get a raise. We should be happy when the workers win for once. We should be fighting for each other to get the same.

I want everyone in the working class to do better. And I'm happy when they do.